Here’s a short video of the stack of stuff we put out for John Alden’s inventory. It’s about three minutes discussion of how we went about assembling the inventory, and what the different parts of it mean.
Unfortunately, because of the rules about showing kids online on our school’s website, or off of it, none of my students are in the film — asking questions, commenting about the objects, or explaining how they might have been used.
When we do this next year, we’ll have little placards in place to talk about what the objects are, and what they mean.
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