Seashell Artifact

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The artifact that I have chosen for this assignment is a seashell and the grade level this artifact will be used for will be preschool or kindergarten. The seashell is from the Atlantic Ocean. This shell was found at the Jersey Shore, while fishing on a boat. The history behind the seashell is my uncle who owns a big calming business near the Jersey Shore, found this shell. Every year my uncle goes out on a big calming boat and one year he found three conch shells, two for my sisters and one for me. My uncle who found is shell, I ‘am very close with so this shell is very special to me. Each year, when it is calming season he goes out on his boat to find more conch shells, sometimes he is lucky sometimes he is not. A book that I found online

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