Anyone who has seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade will recognize the entrance to the Nabataean city of Petra. Young archaeologists don't need horses or camels to travel through the Sig and tour this fascinating city, however. With the aid of an interactive resource, explorers learn how the buildings were carved into the sandstone cliffs, learn about the people who lived here, and why the city was deserted.

Concepts

anthropology, trade routes, the silk road, archaeological digs, archaeology, nomads, monuments, remote learning

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• With parent permission and supervision, have older learns carve a bar of soap into a facade like the Treasury at Petra or of a funeral monument

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a computer with internet access

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• A timeline traces the history of the city
• Includes photos of the various buildings and monuments
• An interactive site map lets users travel through the city

Cons

• None