Description

Overview:

This site provides more than 40 lesson ideas developed by teachers to help students learn about Eastern Woodland Native Americans who lived in the upper Mississippi River valley (southwestern Wisconsin and northeast Iowa) from about 500 BC to 1300 AD and who built effigies -- ceremonial burial mounds shaped to represent bears, eagles, falcons, bison, deer, turtles, lizards, and other creatures.

Subject:

Arts and Humanities

Level:

Upper Primary, Middle School, High School

Material Type:

Lesson Plan

Provider:

National Park Service

Date Added:

03/21/2001