Miamisburg Mound

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Miamisburg Mound

• Grace Chaney
• ED 417-01

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Miamisburg Mound

• Grade level 3rd Grade
• Social studies lesson on an important historical
  landmark in the Miami Valley.

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Objectives

• Students will be able to identify the historical
  Miamisburg Mound.
• Students will be able to identify different
  aspects of Adena culture.
• Students will be able to graph locations of
  various Native American cultures in Ohio.

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Materials Needed

• Map of Ohio
• Colored pencils and pencils
• Clay
• Pictures of Adena pottery
• Pictures of various mound structures in Ohio

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Websites

• Ohio Historical Society
• http//ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/index.shml
• One State, One Nation http//ch4549.org/onestate/l
  p1grpho.htm
• Miamisburg Mound Park http//www.miamisburg.org/mi
  amisburg_mound.htm

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Websites

• Ohio Kids http//www.ohiokids.org/ss/asafari.shtml
  
• Wikipedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_build
  er_(people)

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Activity 1Timeline of Ohio Native Americans

• Materials Paper and Pencils
• Have students construct a graphic timeline of
  several Native American groups who lived near the
  time of the Adena people. These groups including
  the Woodland and Hopewell tribes.

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Activity 2Map of Adena Settlement

• Materials Map of Ohio and colored pencils.
• Discuss different areas where the Adena people
  settled in Ohio. Students will color on the map
  the areas in which the Adena people settled.

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Activity 3Adena Pottery

• Materials Clay and pictures of Adena Pottery
• Show student pictures of different types of Adena
  pottery. Have the students make their own
  pottery, similar to those of the Adena.

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Activity 4Different Mound Structures in Ohio

• Materials Pictures of different mound
  structures, books about mounds.
• Show students different mound structures found in
  Ohio. Have children brainstorm ideas on why the
  mounds are different structures. Have the
  children conduct research with the books to
  decide the reason for the different structures.

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Activity 5Field Trip

• Take the children on a field trip to the
  Miamisburg mound.

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What is the Miamisburg Mound?

• A conical shaped mound built by the Adena people.
• The mound is 65 feet tall and has a circumference
  of 877 feet.

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Excavation of the Mound

• The Miamisburg Mound has only been partial
  excavated. It was excavated in 1869.
• During the excavation, one skeleton was found
  covered in bark.
• The excavation also showed that the mound was
  built in several stages.

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Adena People

• The Adena people lived in Ohio between 1,000 B.C.
  and 400 A.D.
• They lived in permanent settlements near streams
  and rivers. They used the water to travel.

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An Advanced People

• The Adena people are considered the first
  farmers. They grew squash, sunflowers, and
  pumpkins.
• Pottery was first made in Ohio by the Adena
  people.

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An Advanced People

• An complex system of government was used by the
  Adena.
• The Adena people are also credited for being the
  first to build mounds in Ohio.

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Reasons for the Mound

• Mounds were used by the Adena
  to bury their dead.
• When someone died, they
  would be buried on the
  existing mound. This
  caused the mound to
  increase in size.

Adena Burial
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1909
Present Day