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Moundville
Archaeological Park 2008 Educational Programs
Educators!
Moundville is offering educational programs especially designed
to fit your budget while meeting state curriculum standards in Social
Studies, Art, Physical Education and Science. We'll also be glad
to custom design a program to fit your needs. Call Claudia Cummings
at 205-371-2234 or email ccumming@ua.edu
for reservations or more information.
Click
here to down load a printable file of this information.
Tours
and In-House Programs
Teacher
Guided Tour (All Grades)
Give us a call and we’ll send you our teacher’s guide!
Group rate is $3.00 per person with
a reservation. One teacher for every 15 students
and bus drivers are admitted free of charge.
Moundville & the Mississippians (All Grades)
Learn why Moundville is one of the most important prehistoric sites
in North America! Take your class on a comprehensive tour of the
Southeast’s former “Big Apple” and learn about
scientists’ latest findings. Tour information is presented
in a grade appropriate format. Group
rate ($3.00 each) plus $50.00 (up to 40,
then $1.00 for each additional child).
Ancient Tools & Weapons (Grades 4 through
12)
Students will tour the park and museum focusing on the materials
and technologies that Native Americans used to make tools and weapons.
A number of different tools and weapon reproductions are hands-on
for kids. Afterwards, your class will get a chance to try their
hand at the blowgun and the atlatl, a spear throwing device. Each
student takes home their own small arrow point. Group
rate plus $70.00 (up to 40, then $2.00 for each additional
child).
Art, Images & Ornaments (Grades 3 through 6)
Tour parts of the Moundville site and learn why archaeologists know
how Mississippian Indians looked and dressed. You’ll see images
of what the Moundville Indians looked like and find out what researchers
think different symbols mean. Then your students will decorate their
faces like a Mississippian Indian and make themselves a shell necklace.
Group rate plus $70.00 (up
to 40, then $2.00 for each additional child).
Rhythm of Life: Indian Music & Dance (Grades K through 3)
Learn about traditional Southeastern Indian dances and how the heartbeat
is central to the rhythm of Native American percussion. Students
listen to different types of Native American music and get to play
several different rhythm instruments. Finally, kids will make their
own shaker from recycled materials. Group
rate plus $60.00 (up to 40, then $2.00 for each additional
child).
Mother Earth & the Three Sisters:
Indian Plants & Foods (Grades 3 through 6)
Tour our nature trails and visit our museum and Indian garden (in
season) while learning about native plants and foods. An expert
then shows your class how different plants can be used for tools,
weapons, medicine and food. Kids will make a fiber friendship bracelet,
grind corn, taste Indian tea and sample an authentic Indian trail
mix. Garden open April 1. Group rate
plus $80.00 (up to 40, then $2.50 for each additional child).
Past Time Pastimes: Southeastern Indian
Games (Grades 3 through 6)
Find out how the game of lacrosse evolved and why Southeastern Indians
called stickball “the little brother of war.” Kids learn
two versions of this game and also play Indian football and chunkey.
Finally, kids make and take their own pieces, playing a bean toss
game. Group rate plus $60.00
(up to 40, then $1.50 for each additional child).
School Outreach:
Let Us Bring Alabama’s Heritage to You!
Dream
Catchers and Talking Feathers (Grades 4 through 8)
Make two authentic Indian crafts. Hear the story of the dream catcher
and learn how to weave sinew, beads and feathers into an attractive
hanging. Your class finds out why Cherokee councils invented the
talking feather and why the four directions were so important to
Native Americans while they fashion their own talking feather. Teachers
get an extra fancy feather to use in class. $90.00
instructor fee, plus $3.00 per child supply charge. Up to 20 per
class. Can be scheduled for up to 3 classes per school per day.
Rate includes mileage for up to a 50-mile radius.
Mother Earth & the Three Sisters:
Indian Plants & Foods (Grades 3 through 6)
Your class learns how plants were used for tools, weapons, food
and medicine. Students see objects made from a variety of plants
and make their own friendship bracelet from plant fibers. Kids also
get to grind corn, try “Black Drink” (a Southeastern
Indian tea) and sample authentic Indian trail mix.
$100.00 instructor fee includes supply charges for up to 25 children
per presentation. Can be scheduled for up to 3 classes per school
per day. Rate includes mileage for up to a 50-mile radius.
Native American Civil Rights and Wrongs
(Grades 7 through 12)
This presentation focuses on the devasting impact that Europeans
and, later, Americans had on Southeastern Indians and other groups
of Native Americans. Discussions include how European invasion,
widespread diseases, the Trail of Tears and federal laws and policies
have affected Native American culture and lifeways. $75.00
instructor fee for up to 60 students per presentation. Rate includes
mileage for up to a 50-mile radius.
10,000 Years in an Hour (Grades 4
through 12)
Learn about the archaeology, prehistory and history of Alabama Indians.
Students get to see and touch artifacts and reproductions representing
cultures as old as 10,000 B.C. Your class will learn the basic principals
of archaeology and what distinguishes different prehistoric Indian
cultures from one another. Speaker comes dressed in historic Southeastern
Indian clothing. $75.00 instructor
fee for up to 60 students per presentation. Rate includes mileage
for up to a 50-mile radius.
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ASK ABOUT OUR INDIAN CRAFT CLASSES
Click
here to down load a printable file of the Educational Programs
and School Outreach Programs.
Call (205) 371-2234, or email ccumming@ua.edu
for reservations or more information.
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