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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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Effigy Mounds National Monument

 



2000 Year Old Burial Mounds at Fire Point  

Did You Know?
Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves 31 early American Indian earthen mounds in the shape of animals. The monument preserves over 200 mounds representing almost 2000 years of mound building along the Upper Mississippi River.

Last Updated: August 08, 2009 at 17:02 EST