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Effigy Mounds National Monument
First Through Third Grade Activities

First - Third Grade Activities

Pre Visit

  1. What is a Burial Mound? 
  2. Animal Outlines 
  3. Wildlife of the Mississippi Valley
  4. Wildlife Research 
  5. A Day in the Life of a Woodland Child 
  6. My Prediction 
  7. Writing Questions
  8. What I Want to Learn at Effigy Mounds
  9. What's Right, What's Wrong 

Post Visit

  1. Mound Sponge Painting 
  2. Clay Pots 
  3. Clay Mounds
  4. Bear Effigy Hoop 
  5. Mound Shapes 
  6. Poetry
    1. Option 1 
    2. Option 2
    3. Option 3 
  7. Family Effigies 
  8. Effigy Mounds through the Seasons 
  9. Why is the Past Important? 
  10. A Day in the Life of a Moundbuilder 
  11. Thank You Card 
 






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Effigy Mounds National Monument

 
Ellison Orr at Desk: Most of Orr's collections reside at effigy Mounds National Monument  

Did You Know?
An important figure in the documentation of Iowa's effigy mounds was Ellison Orr. Born in 1857, Orr worked other jobs while pursuing research in archeology. After retiring at the age of 73, Orr began a career as an archeologist spending the next 20 years conducting surveys and excavations.

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