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- Discuss with the students the native people that lived in the Mississippi Valley and
built the mounds. See Background
information. Be sure to include the three different groups that were part of the
Woodland Culture. Share with the students that they made tools, clay pots, and
baskets using the bark of the Basswood tree.
- Ask open ended questions such as:
- What do you think they ate? How did they get their food? They didn't have
grocery stores like we do.
- What types of tools do you think they had and how did they make them?
- What might the daily life of a Woodland child be like?
- What did they do for fun?
- How are your lives different from that of a Woodland child?
- How are they the same?
- Have the children fold a blank sheet of paper in half the long way. Then have them
unfold it and write "Woodland Child" on one side and "Me" on the
other. On their side of the paper, have them list their daily activities. On
the Woodland child side, have them list what a child living with the Woodland people might
do during a day. Optional: The students could draw rebus pictures to accompany
their lists.
- Have the children share their charts like a show-and-tell. Instead of creating a
chart, the students could write sentences comparing their life to a Woodland child's life.
Paragraph one could be about them and paragraph two could be about the Woodland
child. Optional: Picture the Past
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