• A quiet summer walk through the Marching Bear Group of effigy mounds

    Effigy Mounds

    National Monument Iowa

Professional Development - Annual Workshops

Chloris Lowe, Ho-Chunk, with workshop participants at

Chloris Lowe, Ho-Chunk with workshop participants at "Fish Farm" mound group.

NPS Photo

Teachers' Workshop brochures 2013 available now. Registration will begin after January 10, 2013.

"The World of the Driftless Area: the People, the Environment, the History"

pdf file "The World of the Driftless Area: the People, the Environment, the History"

Registration ends March 16, 2013

Step One: E-mail e-mail us to reserve a spot.
Step Two: Submit a hard copy from the above brochure or call for a copy at 563-873-3491Ext. 251. Include the $30.00 fee in the registration.
Step Three: Continuing education and graduate credits will be available through Drake University with the cost to be determined.

 
Chloris Lowe, Ho-Chunk, during a cultural presentation segment of the Teacher's Workshop, June 2006

Chloris Lowe, Ho-Chunk, during a cultural presentation segment of the Teacher's Workshop.

NPS Photo

Cultural presentation segments are a highlight of each workshop agenda.

Did You Know?

Great Bear Effigy Mound Group

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.