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Effigy Mounds National Monument
Mound Shapes

 

 

Mound Shapes

Strand: Science
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Duration: 20 minutes
Location: classroom
Objective: The students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of burial mounds of the Woodland Culture through the drawing and labeling pictures of the mounds (option 1) or by correctly matching the mound shape to the description (option 2)
Materials: Option 1:
paper
crayons

Option 2:
copies of worksheet
pencil or crayons
Vocabulary: burial mound      conical      compound      linear      effigy
Procedure: Option 1:
  1. After a brief discussion of the field trip to Effigy Mounds National Monument, have the children draw the shapes of the 4 different types of mounds they saw (as many as they can remember).
  2. Write the names of the 4 types of mounds on the board for the children
  3. Have the children label their drawings
  4. Share as a class and make sure everyone has the mounds labeled correctly on their paper
  5. The children could work on this project in small groups or in pairs

Option 2:

  1. Discuss the field trip with the children
  2. Distribute a copy of the "Match the Mounds" sheet to each child
  3. Have them complete the worksheet individually, in pairs, or small groups
  4. Share the answers as a class to make sure everyone has their paper correct
  5. Option: the children could color the worksheet
 






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Did You Know?
In 1880, Alfred J. Hill and Theodore H. Lewis formed the Northwestern Archeological Survey for the purpose of surveying mounds in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Lewis spent eleven field seasons in Iowa and was the first to map mounds in the present Effigy Mounds National Monument.
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