Tips For Artifact Bags!

Artifact Bag Tips!

After reading the article on artifact bags and looking at an artifact bag in class, I realized that this would be a great activity to use in the classroom. This bag would be great for a social studies lesson. It can help students when learning about different countries, cultures, states and other areas. This is an activity that can be done in the classroom where different groups have different bags, or each student can to given a topic and they can make up their own artifact bags. Artifact bags can also be used as a way to get to know students. Students can fill a bag with items that tell more about who they are and where they come from. 

Here are some tips that can be used when doing an artifact bag activity in the classroom.
1. Go over what an artifact is and what an artifact bag is.
2. Make sure the bags are appealing to the students in order to grab their attention.
3. You can use reading, writing and social studies in this lesson.
4. Allow students to work in groups, so they can share ideas and figure out what their artifacts mean.
5. Allow each group time to present what they learned from their artifact bags.
6. Make it fun!