HCW 3M1 Course Culminating Activity
Final demonstration: The Museum Exhibit

Professor Breaton, a well known scholar and celebrated educator, has devised an idea that will expand the knowledge and understanding of society at large. In order to bring his plan to fruition the professor requires the assistance of this class in the preparation of a series of museum exhibits that will be transported to the far corners of the world for the edification of all.

The assignment requires each student to find an object that was created and used by humans during any time between the early Paleolithic era to the beginning of the world of the Renaissance in the 16th Century.

This object must have been used by more than one social class (if applicable – stone age items must be something that could be used by men, women or children) during the course of its existence.

The object in question should be viewed as a significant development for human civilization, or one that permits such a development (i.e. one that promoted social, economic, political, scientific, cultural, technological etc. development.)

Format

Each student will draw or replicate the object to be included in his or her museum exhibit, and then mount the object in a small box. The box thus becomes the museum display.

The exhibit must include the following:

  1. Description of the physical characteristics of the object (what it’s made of, how it’s made etc.), with some note cultural uniqueness (i.e. why it was that this specific culture came up with this artifact when it did).
  2. An explanation of the object’s use to (or by) humans.
  3. A map that shows the origin of the object in space and time.
  4. An explanation of the impact of the object on human culture, i.e and how it was (or promoted) significant development for humans.

 

Follow-up

Sadly, lack of funds and space require that Prof. Breaton limit the number of exhibits he can carry with him on his tour. If your exhibit is chosen from the many hundreds that will be submitted, you will be acknowledged as one of the foremost up-and-coming young archaeologists of our era. In order to improve the chance that your exhibit will be selected, please include a 1 page letter to explain the merits and value of your particular exhibit, to justify why it should chosen to be taken on the global tour.

Evaluation:                 Rubric Attached.

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