Explore Your Own Site: Tennessee Archaeology

Abstract

The Tennessee State Board of Education changed the standards for fourth graders to include Tennessee prehistory. The curriculum change includes the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian time periods, as well as four specific sites: Coats-Hines site, Old Stone Fort, Pinson Mounds, and Chucalissa Indian Village. Textbooks and supplemental teaching tools do not sufficiently cover this subject, leaving teachers to have to do their own research. I have created a fun, informative "Choose Your Own Adventure" style book to fill this need. This style of book allows the reader to feel like an archaeologist and utilizes the rush of discovery to help them learn.