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Unit 3: The Ancient Ones

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Listed below are possible research or discussion topics, online lesson plans, resources and other materials.  As you look through this list please consider that this series can work for grades 4-12, with an emphasis on 7th grade. Also consider that the series will be used with different purposes for different grade levels. This is by no means a complete list of resources, and we cannot guarantee the life span and quality of the web site addresses.

Possible Research Topics

  • Agricultural societies
  • The Mastodon State Park
  • Native American burial mounds
  • Archeologist Gerard Fowke  (1865-1933)
  • Miller Cave
  • The Paleoindian Period
  • Climate changes
  • The Mississippian Period
  • Pottery
  • Disappearance of Missouri's Native American Mound structures
  • St. Louis Academy of Science
  • Early tools
  • Native Americans
  • The Woodland Period
  • Glaciers

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Bibliography

  • Indians and Archaeology of Missouri
    Chapman, Carol Haley
    University of Missouri Press
    Columbia, MO
    1964
  • Cat Monsters and Head Pots: The Archaeology of Missouri’s Pemiscot Bayou
    O’Brien, Michael J.
    University of Missouri Press
    Columbia, MO
    1994
  • Prehistory of Missouri
    O’Brien, Michael J.; and Wood, Raymond W.
    University of Missouri Press
    Columbia, MO
    1998

Lesson Plans