Artifact Bag Activity



Create a Motivated Historical Unit



Make Connections



Generate Questions



Create Multigenre Artifact Research Projects

                                                                                                                             




Stimulate Curiosity

                These are just a few ways to use the artifact bag in your classroom.

Using the artifact bag activity in the classroom will stimulate students curiosity for newly introduced topics and provide a meaningful way to learn history. Students will learn that artifacts are important to historians; artifacts provide imperative and conclusive evidence for a historical inquiry. There are many ways in which to use an artifact bag activity. For my artifact bag, I wanted to connect the BizWorld project with history. Since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had such a tremendous impact on America's workforce, I chose to focus on the New Deal program, which he proposed in his second term of his presidency. My artifact bag reflects the evolution of America's business ethics which President Roosevelt set forth in his Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Linking historyto the BizWorld project through an artifact bag activity will provide students with a historical perspective of how Americans worked long ago, how business ethics evolved overtime, and how important business ethics are for the health, safety, and fairness of employees in the business world.