Resources, Handouts
Guides
Shell Typology Guide
This colorful handbook will help to familiarize students with the numerous types of prehistoric shells found along Florida’s coasts and waterways.
DownloadPlants and People: A Florida Plant Guide
This colorful handbook will help to familiarize students with the numerous types of native plants found in Florida and how people have used them in the past.
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Plants and People Handout
Use this handout to help you identify a few native Florida plants and how people from the past used them in their everyday lives.
DownloadFaunal Remains Handout
Use this handout to learn how to tell the differences between the bones of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish.
DownloadShip Construction Handout
This handout provides ship vocabulary and helps you learn the names of different parts of a ship.
DownloadPottery Handout
Learn how to identify temper and decoration in prehistoric pottery found in Florida.
DownloadHuman Skeleton Handout
Learn to identify the bones in your body, as well as what they might reveal about you.
DownloadHunting Tech Handout
This handout shows how stone points have changed through time in Florida.
DownloadShells Handout
Use this handout to help you identify some shells found in Florida and how Native Americans used them.
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Little Salt Springs Activity Booklet
Explore thousands of years of prehistory at Little Salt Spring, one of the oldest archaeological sites in Florida, located in Sarasota County with Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.
DownloadWeedon Island Activity Booklet
Explore the thousands of years of prehistory at the Weedon Island archaeological site in Pinellas County, Florida with Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.
DownloadCrystal River Activity Booklet
Explore thousands of years of prehistory at the Crystal River archaeological site in Citrus County, Florida with Tommy the Tortoise, Junior Archaeologist.
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