Archaeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee
Permanent exhibit
Social Studies/science, Grades K-12
Time required: 45 min. – 1 hr.
Elementary students concentrate on the lifeways of Tennessee Indians and how they met basic needs, made tools, and used the resources of the natural environment. Changing technology, economy, and society and interactions with Europeans are also addressed. Time permitting, students can try out replica tools.
Middle and high school students focus on the science of archaeology as they make hypotheses about people of the past and discuss the evidence for those hypotheses. Included are the relationship between human actions and plant adaptations in the development of domesticated plants, the effects of human settlement on the natural environment, and the complex relationships between Europeans and Native peoples.
Tennessee Social Studies Curriculum
Culture, Economics, Governance, Geography, History, Interactions
- K—K.1.02, K.2.01, K.3.02, .03; K.4.01, K.5.02, K.6.01, .02
- 1—1.1.01, .03, 1.2.02, .03, 1.3.03, 1.4.02, 1.5.02, 1.6.01, .02
- 2—2.1.01, .03, 2.3.01, .02, .03, 2.4.01, 2.5.02, .03, 2.6.01, .02
- 3rd grade benchmarks – 3.1.spi.1, 3.1.spi.2; 3.2.spi.1, 3.2.spi.3; 3.2.spi.5; 3.5.spi.1; 3.6.spi.1
- 4th grade benchmarks – 4.1.spi.1, 4.1.spi.4, 4.4.spi.5; 4.2.spi.1, 4.2.spi.4, 4.2.spi.5; 4.3.spi.1, 4.3.spi.2, 4.3.spi.3; 4.5.spi.1
- 5th grade benchmarks – 5.1.spi.1, 5.1.spi.2
- 6th grade benchmarks – 6.1.spi.1, 6.1.spi.2, 6.1.spi.5, 6.1.spi.6, 6.1.spi.8; 6.2.spi.1; 6.5.spi.2, 6.5.spi.3, 6.5.spi.6
- 7th grade benchmarks – 7.1.spi.1; 7.2.spi.1; 7.3.spi.3; 7.5.spi.2
- 8th grade benchmarks – 8.1.spi.2; 8.2.spi.1, 8.2.spi.2, 8.2.spi.4; 8.3.spi.3, 8.3.spi.6; 8.4.spi.9; 8.5.spi.1, 8.5.spi.4, 8.5.spi.5, 8.5.spi.6, 8.5.spi.13; 8.6.spi.3
- World History – 3.3, 4.1, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 6.1, 6.3
- U.S. Government – 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 6.2
- World Geography – 1.2, 1.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Tennessee Science Curriculum
Standard 2 – Interdependence, Standard 3 – Flow of Matter and Energy; Standard 7 – The Earth; Standard 9 – Matter; Standard 11 – Motion
Specific grade level and course expectations:
- K – GLE0007.T/E.1,.2.2, .7.2, .9.1, .11.1
- 1 – GLE0107.T/E.1, .9.1, .11.1
- 2 – GLE0207.T/E.1, .2.1
- 3 – GLE0307.T/E.1, .4; .2.2, .7.3, .11.1
- 4 – GLE0407.T/E.1, .2; .2.1, .3.1, .7.1, .11.2
- 5 – GLE0507.T/E.1, .4; .2.3
- 6 – GLE0607.Inq.3, .4, .T/E.3
- 7 – GLE0707.Inq.3, .4; T/E.3; .7.6, .11.1
- 8 – GLE0807.Inq.3, .4; T/E.3; .5.3, .5.4
- Biology I – CLE3210.Inq.4; T/E.3; .2.3
- Ecology – CLE3255.Inq.5; T/E.3; .1.3, .2.3, .4.4, .6.3