Artifact Bag Reflection

Artifact Bag Reflection

            The artifact bag activity was a great activity held and very essential. This activity helps us prepare and learn about the given topics. This can also help future teachers have an idea on how to teach students using a fun and exciting way. The artifact bags were based on the topics that we were each given. There were four different groups leading to four different units. Each group covered their unit very well.

            The artifact bags can be used in teaching a lesson for many different ways. Beginning with direct instruction, the bags can be used to teach and repeat what the unit is about and what students will be learning. Artifacts can be used to teach this and give students a visual which tends to help students learn better. Following that, they can be used to test students’ knowledge of what they may already know. They can then get into cooperative groups and put their artifacts together and assign roles on who can present the bag, who will put the bag together, etc. This type of activity can cover the three main lessons.

            You can use technology to show artifact bags by using PowerPoint. Many pictures can be taken of the different artifacts and put onto power point with different facts about the artifacts. This can help students learn about the different artifacts for the different topics. For example, my topic was about going to the bank. I had brought in a piggy bank, a checkbook, and money. I had taken pictures of each artifact and described them on PowerPoint so students can see what each of them mean and the importance to them.

            Artifact bags can be used in any type of course for any lesson. It could work well in a science 

class while students bring in artifacts that have to do with science such as rocks, plants, etc. There are 
many topics in history that students have to cover. It is important they learn about all of the topics. 

Artifact bags can help because they are fun and help students learn better by seeing the different 

artifacts dealing with the topics.