Cliff Holm

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Cliff Holm John Williams Union County High
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Exploring Mammoth Caves 1897
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Objectives
Create a diorama of the caves
(interchangeable)
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Objectives
Have some students act as tour guides and give
virtual tours to groups of exploring students
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Objectives
The virtual tours will be presented via
photostory or powerpoint. The tour will have
both accurate history and epic adventure. There
will be some sort of task, puzzle or riddle the
explorers must overcome.
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Logistics
The explorers move miniatures on the diorama.
When a new room is encountered the designated
Tour Guide narrates the presentation they created
and judges the explorers response to the virtual
tour they just saw.
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Lessons
1. Buying equipment 1897 Sears catalog 2.
Mapping and surveying the cave. 3. Former Slave
Stephen Bishop, guide 4. War of 1812 Saltpeter
miners 5. Indian use of cave resources. -no
direct standards 6. Cave formations 7.
Animals 8. First Aid
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For Example
The Kentucky Cave Wars.
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The Croghan family has been giving tours for
years now. The neighboring farmer thinks some of
the tunnels might be under their land and thus
the Croghan tours are trespassing. Your
assignment is to create an accurate map.
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Cave explorers Your task is to create an
accurate scale map this chamber.
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The student explorers are now directed back to
the diorama and are given grid paper.
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Results of this lesson. 1. Diorama is done. 2.
Kids love the Sears catalog 3. Kids love moving
miniatures --High School students as tour
guides for Middle School students. 4. Only 2
rooms, then school ended. A. An intro room B.
Animals Rats, attacked
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Results of this lesson. --Problems /
concerns-- 5. Small groups four explorers to
one guide 6. Large chunks of time. 7. Lots of
goofing off even with excited, eager volunteers.
Perhaps even worse with apathetic students. 8.
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The End