NFB Collection
The Dig
198923 min 32 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: David Curnick
Production: George JohnsonBarbara Janes
A short documentary that profiles an exceptional teacher, Richard Edwardson of Surrey, British Columbia. Each year "Mr. Ed" takes his grade 7 Harold Bishop School class on a three-day archeological dig. Artifacts and sites are prepared beforehand by Mr. Ed and ex-students who return year after year to participate. Along with the preparatory and post-dig classes and workshops, this teaching program is extremely successful from a number of points of view.
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Subject categories
- Archaeology > Archaeological Digs
- Education > CurriculumSecondary EducationTeaching Methods
- Health/Personal Development > Careers & Education
- Social Studies > Comparative Civilizations
- History and Citizenship Education > Neolithic Civilization to the Renaissance
Credits
- director
- David Curnick
- producer
- George Johnson
- executive producer
- Barbara Janes
- camera
- Danny Nowak
- Thomas H. Turnbull
- Rolf Cutts
- sound
- Michael Chechik
- Chris Aikenhead
- Sebastian Salm
- editing
- Lorie Olson
- re-recording
- David Cochrane
- music
- Terry Frewer