An OAR-led team created Alabama's first and only comprehensive educational resource for teachers wishing to incorporate Archaeology in the classroom. OAR staff co-authored the Project Archaeology manual for Alabama that is designed as a tool for teaching about our rich and fascinating past. This resource, along with web technology, offers educators and administrators a tool with which to use Archaeology to teach science, social studies, language arts, mathematics and other subject areas in an engaging manner. The activities also help to develop skills such as evaluation, comprehension, analysis and synthesis. A range of strategies are applied to help students learn through multiple techniques including brainstorming, discussion, classification, scientific inquiry, research skills, decision making, writing, analogy, problem solving and forecasting.

 
Intrigue of the Past, produced by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and Discovering Archaeology in Alabama, researched and written by OAR staff, serve to complement one another in presenting fundamental concepts about the past and providing information about our local and regional cultural history. When available, OAR staff visit classrooms to bring archaeology to students with hands-on learning activities and opportunities for direct interaction with scientific researchers. Teachers have opportunities to learn firsthand about archaeological research processes through participation in the affiliated Alabama Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Summer Expedition programs.
PDF copies of Discovering Archaeology in Alabama and Intrigue of the Past: A Teacher's Activity Guide for Fourth Through Seventh Grade are available for download on the Educational Resources page of this site.