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

    Effigy Mounds

    National Monument Iowa

Wildlife Research

 

 

Wildlife Research

Strand: Science
Grade Level: 3
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: classroom and library
Objective: The students will be able to research and present information about an animal common to the Mississippi Valley.
Materials: library to do research
paper
pencil
copy of the questions to be researched
Vocabulary: Mississippi River    wildlife
Procedure:
  1. Ask the students what types of wildlife live in the Mississippi Valley (eagle, deer, wild turkey, falcon etc.)
  2. Divide the students into groups of 4-5 and tell them that each group is responsible for choosing an animal (each group has a different animal) and researching that animal to be able to answer the following questions:
    • where the animal lives
    • what type of home(s) it lives in
    • what it eats
    • how they care for their young
    • size of family group
    • any other interesting information
    • visual(s)
  3. The groups prepare a short presentation to the class. Optional: Animal Scramble and Match
 






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Effigy Mounds National Monument

 

Did You Know?

2000 Year Old Burial Mounds at Fire Point

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.