Thursday, February 4, 2010

Effigy Mounds

Online Tours of the site: http://www.nps.gov/archive/efmo/tours.htm

The teacher's guide for this has some great activities. They are centered on this particular site, which you might not be able to visit, but many of the ideas are easily adapted to internet research on the topic or other sites.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/efmo/parks/table_of_contents.htm

And more on that site:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/efmo/home.htm

And more about the mounds:


Grade LevelTitleTopic
Who Built the Effigy Mounds?Early Native Peoples
Wisconsin Native Creation NarrativesEarly Native Peoples
Maps and Geology Reports of WisconsinEarly Native Peoples
A Fascinating Study: The development of Effigy MoundsEarly Native Peoples
From Cahokia to Aztalan: A look at some of the earliest inhabitants of Wisconsin

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