The week of Nov. 10, Churchill Road fifth graders conducted an archaeological dig in social studies class. Students were asked to develop a fictional culture, then create an artifact which represents an aspect of that culture. Artifacts ranged from cooking implements to artwork to scale models of that culture’s housing. Each of the students then buried his or her artifact in the raised beds behind the school. Other students excavated the buried artifacts, and analyzed them to determine what the mystery culture was like. The students enjoyed this hands-on approach to studying other cultures.