Our Mission

The mission of Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones is to provide educators with teacher-tested, standards-based lesson plans and resources that will allow them to integrate everyone’s favorite archaeologist into classrooms across the curriculum. Too often, students complain of history as boring or uninspiring. They shouldn’t anymore! With teaching ideas designed to motivate and inspire, Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones can help you bring to life a variety of topics that will capture the imagination of your students.

This will always be a work in progress and we welcome all input as we strive to serve as a hub for the sharing of innovative and creative ideas that will benefit both teachers and students. So come along for the ride and don’t forget your whip and hat!

Remembering the Internet- The Wayback Machine

5/23/2009

The Wayback Machine

Have you ever been teaching or having students work on a project and wished you could teach them about life in the early days of the internet? Now you can thanks to the Wayback Machine. This awesome internet archive catalogs websites and allows browsers to examine websites as they existed years ago. What did the first White House website look like? Use the Wayback Machine to find out. This archive helps students see just how far web technology has come in a very short time.

Construct Digital Posters with Glogster

5/3/2009

Are your students bored and tired of making bulky posters for presentations and projects? Have you reached your last nerve trying to store and handle oversized project boards? If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above then consider using Glogster to create digital posters.

A Sample Glog!

What are students saying about Young Indy?

4/15/2009

-“They [the films] gave us an inside look at how life actually was during the war and included all the famous people we learned about.”

-“I thought that the Young Indy episodes were very helpful in my visual learning and gave a great aspect as to what these times might have actually been like.”

-“Young Indy was helpful because it showed the whole scope of the war and allowed me to understand the large concepts of the war easily…”

-“They [the films] were helpful because they gave an entertaining, visual, and in-depth perspective of the war.”

Check out our newest section-- Indy Connections

4/4/2009

In this new section we find and present links to current event articles that relate to the real-life events, topics, and people found in The Adventures of Indiana Jones. Educators can use these current events to connect our past with the present day. To see the latest articles or find recent topics for a specific Indy chapter click here or use the navigation menu at the top of any webpage. Be sure to check back with us often, as we will be updating articles on a weekly basis!

Professor Henry Jones, Jr. Artifacts to Tour US

4/1/2009

Henry Jones, Jr.

We’ve received confirmation that the Amblin Museum of Antiquities in Chicago will be hosting a tour of artifacts procured by the late world-renowned archaeologist, Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones, Jr. The traveling exhibit will give a detailed history of Professor Jones’ travels across the globe and the numerous discoveries that he made. Highlights of the exhibit include: a sacred Sankara Stone, a Chachapoyan golden fertility idol, the Cross of Coronado, Jones’ diary and numerous sketches from digs, and even personal artifacts from his time as an Allied spy during World War I and World War II. The tour kicks off in Jones' hometown of Princeton, New Jersey and honored guests will include Jones' two children Henry Jones III and Mrs. Henrietta Jones Steele, and two granchildren Spike Jones and Lucy M. Jones.