OHIO SOCIAL STUDIES STRANDS POWERPOINT

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OHIO SOCIAL STUDIES STRANDS POWERPOINT

• The First Global Age The Characteristics of the
  Mississippian Civilization
• Grade Six
• Matt Crapo
• Jon Hutman
• Ellen Rampelt

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Table of Contents

• Strand One History
• Information Slide 4
• Activities Slide 5
• Strand Two People In Societies
• Information Slide 6
• Activities Slide 7
• Strand Three Geography
• Information Slide 8
• Activities Slide 9
• Strand Four Economics
• Information Slide 10
• Activities Slide 11

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Table of Contents Continued

• Strand Five Government
• Information Slide 12
• Activities Slide 13
• Strand Six Citizenship Rights and
  Responsibilities
• Information Slide 14
• Activities Slide 15
• Strand Seven Social Studies Skills and Methods
• Information Slide 17
• Activities Slide 18
• Strand Eight Science Technology and Society
• Activities Slide 19
• Annotated Websites
• Slides 20-22

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STRAND ONE HISTORY

• The term Mississippian refers to an urban
  civilization that flourished in eastern North
  America between the years c. 900 and 1400.
• It was the last major prehistoric cultural
  development in North America
• In the early 1400s, before the arrival of
  Europeans, the civilization mysteriously
  vanished.

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand One History
• Students will go through a National Geographic
  and find pictures of artifacts. They will paste
  them on a poster board.
• Students will create a time line of major events
  that took place in 1000 AD.
• Students will create a family tree of their
  family. They will be expected to go back at
  least four generations but an incentive will be
  given to the furthest tree.
• Students will write a story about how they would
  fight a battle if they were an Indian.
• How did the tribes communicate? Come up with
  your own language and trade with a partner.

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STRAND TWO PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES

• The culture spread along the rivers to many parts
  of what is now the central and eastern United
  States.
• The Mississippian culture was the only known
  pre-Columbian urban civilization to develop in
  the Americas north of what is now Mexico.
• They made human sacrifices remain unclear, said
  it appears the deaths were part of a theatrical
  ritual, and the roles seem to be mythical,
  possibly a retelling of the story of creation.
• Population centers were found in river basins, as
  their culture was sustained by the cultivation of
  crops. Towns were subordinate to other towns with
  more powerful Chief Priests thus confederacies
  were established

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Two People in societies
• We will have a tribe day. We will dress up as if
  we were Indians, discuss what they ate as well.
• A guest speaker will come to the class. He will
  discuss the life of an Indian of that time.
• What did they wear? You draw it on poster board!
• If you were their medicine man, what would you
  give a guy with the flu?
• Vegetation patterns were not like they are today.
  If you had to plant a field what would you put
  where?

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STRAND THREE GEOGRAPHY

• The Mississippians are also known as the Mound
  Builders, due to the enormous flat-topped temple
  mounds they constructed in the centers of their
  large, well-organized cities.
• Among the most important centers of Mississippian
  culture were Cahokia, Illinois Moundville,
  Alabama and Ocmulgee, Georgia
• The Mississippian Culture spanned from Wisconsin
  and Minnesota in the north, through Georgia to
  the south, and westward into the Great Plains

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Three Geography
• The students will build mounds with play doe.
  They will look similar to what the tribes would
  build.
• The students will map their territory. It will
  be done on a worksheet.
• Draw plants that are unique now but at that time
  they were very plentiful.
• The students will watch a movie on how they
  traveled from place to place.
• Pretend you are a weather man, what was the
  average weather in each season. Chart this on a
  poster.

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STRAND FOUR ECONOMICS

• The civilization engaged in trade with
  surrounding peoples as far away as the Rocky
  Mountains and the Atlantic coast.
• It was based on intensive cultivation of corn,
  beans, squash, and other crops.
• Craftwork was executed in copper, shell, stone,
  wood, and clay.
• The Mississippian typically lived along the
  banks of large rivers for both food,
  transportation and protection.
• These areas provided diversity in plant and
  animal life, fertile soil, and fresh water.

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Four Economics
• Students will create posters of different food
  that was grown and sold for other goods.
• Students will use a barter system to trade with
  other classmates basic necessities. This is to
  show the importance of a plentiful crop.
• Did they get along with their neighboring tribes?
  Find out some economic contributions and chart
  them.
• If you lived in 1200 AD, what would you have if
  you were considered rich.
• There were no manufacturers at this time. Were
  did they get their necessities from, label this
  on a poster

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STRAND FIVE GOVERNMENT

• It is now generally believed that a form of
  chiefdom government operated within the
  Mississippian period.
• These chiefdoms, operating out of temple mound
  complexes, such as Moundville or Etowah,
  apparently controlled specific territories
  usually associated with a defined floodplain
  environment.
• Chiefs were responsible for the redistribution of
  food between outlying communities and the major
  community.
• In all probability, Mississippian chiefdoms
  controlled only small geographical areas and were
  in constant states of change because their power
  rested on fragile agricultural adaptations.

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Five Government
• We live in a democracy. Create a venn diagram
  that compares and contrast our government and
  theirs.
• Women can vote in Americas, cold the always vote?
  What role did women play in society?
• Were all men hunters? Create a chart that shows
  the various jobs of men in the tribe.
• We know they were mound builders. Why did they
  create these large piles of earth? This will be
  done in groups and you will have to give a 4min
  speech.
• Have a debate over who killed the deer. You and
  another tribe member both shot at the same time.
  You have to act out a debate that could have
  taken place during those time periods.

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STRAND SIX CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS and
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Each large town dominated a group of satellite
  villages.
• Monks Mound was a large building that once stood
  atop the mound and is believed to have been the
  ceremonial home of the citys ruler or an elite
  clan.
• A social hierarchy was present in the
  Mississippian culture.
• Common people were simply buried while people of
  importance such as chiefs or gods were buried in
  great mounds.

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Six Citizenship rights and
  responsibilities.
• What were the jobs of children? Compare them to
  the jobs you do.
• How did they get ready for winter, summer? Show
  on a poster the work that was needed.
• You cannot consume alcohol until you are 21. It
  was not always like this. What role did alcohol
  play for the tribes? Show on poster board.
• Many games were played. Re-create one for the
  class.
• Dress up like a chief, tell characteristics of a
  chief.

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STRAND SEVEN SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS and METHODS

• Students learn from various methods. It is our
  jobs as educators to make sure we reach every
  student.
• Throughout this presentation we have hit every
  learner style and incorporated exciting
  activities for each and every student.

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Seven Social studies skills and methods
• Lecture- I tell the students facts.
• Field trip- we all go to an Indian cite, they
  get hands on information.
• Group presentations- the group will teach the
  class
• Dress up day- we learn their culture and
  heritage through their dress.
• Movie day- we learn through the movie
  representations and on cite viewing.

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STRAND EIGHT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY

• Technology should be incorporated in every
  classroom. It is our job as educators to teach
  the students the importance of technology in the
  every day world.
• Our activities used different formats of
  technology while keeping it interesting for the
  students.

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ACTIVITIES

• Strand Eight Science technology and society
• Students will create a Power Point over mound
  formations.
• Students will copy and paste pictures of
  artifacts.
• Students will create a bibliography for
  educational websites based on Mississippian
  Civilizations.
• Students will create a group video, choosing one
  part of the civilization to recreate.
• Students will tape record a Native American.

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ANNOTATED WEBSITES

• Title Mississippian Civilization (900-1750 A.D.)
  Southern region
• http//www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/up/upj.html
• This website provided great pictures and
  information on artifacts from the civilization.
  It could be used for useful research in the
  classroom.
• Title Definition of Mississippian civilization
•   http//www.wordiq.com/definition/Mississippian_c
  ivilization
• This website provides great information about the
  history of the civilization. It is a great
  website to start the students learning about the
  Mississippians.

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ANNOTATED WEBSITES

• Title Workin' on a mound gang
• http//whyfiles.org/135salv_arch/3.html
• This website provides great descriptions and
  visual representations of how the different
  mounds looked like during the Mississippian era.
  The students can use this website to help them
  create their own mounds.
• Title The Mississippian Culture The Mound
  builders at Ocmulgee
• http//www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/dvess/ids/amtours/
  ocmulgee400X200/400X200S/ocmwciv.htm
• This website provides virtual tours of the
  mounds, while also providing great details about
  each different type of mound.

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ANNOTATED WEBSITE

• Title Webquest for the Mississippian
  Civilization
• http//www.webinstituteforteachers.org/jloredo/we
  b_quest.html
• This website offers numerous resources and links
  for students to research about this culture.