This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to archaeology as a discipline. The resource helps students understand how archaeologists investigate the past, what methods they use, and how evidence is interpreted. The first section (slides 1–8) opens with an inquiry question asking how archaeologists know what they know. Students examine excavation, survey, dating methods, stratigraphy, and interpretation, each linked to the challenges of reconstructing early human societies. The section closes with a synthesis slide drawing together the core principles of archaeological investigation. The second section (slides 9–15) provides a flexible activity bank including source analysis, discussion and debate, creative and divergent thinking, structured writing, method‑matching tasks, retrieval starters, and consolidation checks. The transferable skill is understanding historical method; archaeology is the vehicle.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).