A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Treasure Hunter (Archaeologist). Inside: 35+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 20+ word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities (a stratigraphy build, a trowel-sense tool lab, an object-vs-evidence switch, a section-drawing exercise, and more — all with minimal or free materials), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and Health/SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a focused single-week unit to a longer integration across science, social studies, and ELA — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: that archaeology is not a treasure hunt but the disciplined art of reading time itself; that the real treasure is never the object but the story; that every excavation is a controlled destruction where the trowel destroys the site and the notebook preserves it; and that the ordinary — a sandal, a child's toy, the ash from a single fire — can bring an entire vanished world back. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling sensitive topics — burials and tombs, looting, the loss of cultural sites, and the question of who owns the past — with care.