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Poetry - Option One

 

Poetry: Option 1

Strand: Language Arts
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Duration: 20 - 30 minutes
Location: classroom or outside
Objective: The students will be able to write a poem using describing words to describe their field trip experience
Materials: lined paper
pencil
Vocabulary: Woodland culture     burial mounds      describing words
Procedure:
  1. To help the children remember and reflect on their trip to the monument, have them write a poem using describing words. The children could describe what they saw or sounds they heard. They can do this project individually, in small groups, or as a whole class.
  2. Brainstorm with the children some words that would describe their trip to the monument and write them on the board.

Examples:

Mississippi
Moundbuilders
Indians
Spirits
Spiders
Insects
Spring
Snakes
Itchy weeds
Plants
Poison Ivy
Iowa		 Effigy Mounds
Effigy
Fun
Family
Interesting
Graves
Years ago
 






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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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