Effigy Mounds National Monument Crossword
| Strand: | History, Culture, Archaeology |
| Grade Level: | grades 9 through 12 |
| Duration: | Two to three hours |
| Location: | on site, Effigy Mounds National Monument |
| Objective: | The student will be able to identify how prehistoric Native
American Cultures met their basic economic needs of food, clothing, and shelter, and the
technology and methods they used to accomplish those goals. The student will analyze the development of abstract thought in Early American cultures through the analysis of artifacts, burials, art, and attempts to explain the supernatural. |
| Materials: | The Effigy Mounds National Monument
Crossword Puzzle (answers) The Film "The Earth Shapers" The Effigy Mounds National Monument Museum The Fire Point Trail Guide Booklet information from the Rangers at Effigy Mounds National Monument. |
| Vocabulary: | artifact atl-atl awl banner stone bundle burial catlinite chert compound mound conical mound copper breast ornament coulees cremation effigy mound extended burial feature flexedburial Hopewell linear mounds obsidian snares |
| Procedure: | This crossword is set up for students to use during their visit to Effigy Mounds National Monument. Student copies of the Fire Point Trail Guide Booklet should be runoff and provided to students prior to their arrival at the monument. In order to successfully complete the crossword they will have take the "Fire Point Trail Walk" with adult chaperones (and with a Ranger if available). The interpretive signs and other items along the trail will also have to be analyzed. Students will also have to study the artifacts in the museum and watch the film "The Earth Shapers", both of which are available at Effigy Mounds National Monument. |
