Lego® Archaeology - November-December Activities: From our Readers - Brief Article

Just because something is in print does not make it accurate. Ideas change as new information is uncovered, and different people may interpret the same information in different ways. To reinforce these concepts with your older students, try a round of Lego Archaeology. Purchase several small, identical sets of Lego building blocks and put each set into a plastic bag, with all instructions and pictures removed.

Divide the class into small groups, and tell students that each group is now a team of scientists from another planet studying an archaeological site on a planet called Earth. Using its assigned bag of "artifacts," each team must determine what the object might have been and then try to assemble it. Usually no two groups will put the pieces together in the same way!

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