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Resources For Educators: Petra
Part of the Petra exhibition.

Petra: Lost City of Stone explores the caravan city of Petra and the nomadic desert traders, the Nabataeans, who built it creating a crossroads of the ancient world. This comprehensive guide will help you explore the exhibition with your students.
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Petra: Lost City of Stone Educator's Guide
Get an advance look at the exhibition's major themes and what your class will encounter. This six-page guide for K-12 educators includes a Map of the Exhibition, Essential Questions (important background content), Teaching in the Exhibition (self-guided explorations), Come Prepared Checklist, Correlation to Standards, and Glossary.
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Use these free online resources to further explore themes presented in the Petra exhibition.
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Be an Exhibition Explorer in Petra: Lost City of Stone
Go on an archaeological scavenger hunt to discover the significance of the objects displayed in the museum’s Petra exhibit—and get...
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Petra Web List
Explore Petra and learn more about archaeology with this Web list for kids and adults.
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Petra Book List
Want to learn more about archaeology but don't know where to start? Dig in with this list of books, with titles for both kids and...
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Making Mosaics
Vivid mosaics of stone and glass cubes—some enhanced with precious gold leaf—once gleamed from the floor, walls, and ceiling of the...
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Do Your Own Dig
With a few simple tools from around the house and garden, you can execute a sound archaeological dig. Level by stratigraphic level,...
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Where Did You Find It?
Context is everything when it comes to identifying and understanding artifacts. Explore how archaeologists use surrounding objects...
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Shoebox Archaeology
How does one generation stack up to the next? Find out why it’s easier for archaeologists to answer this question when a family settles...
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How Does Where You Live Shape How You Live?
With access to products and information from around the world, our range of choices is seemingly endless. But how would life be different...
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Make a Scale Drawing
It’s time to excavate the contents of your desk—that is, after you first create a scale drawing of the site. Explore how precise...
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Make Your Own Sifting Screen
Archaeologists can’t just dig into a site like it’s a sandbox—they’d scramble the evidence and more than likely destroy precious...