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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

An Early American Culture

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify the locations of the Hopewell culture. In this map skills lesson, students use a globe to mark several locations of the Hopewell culture.
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Graphic
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Ohio Historical Society: The Hopewell Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Who were the Hopewell? There seems to be many ideas due to the variation of Hopewell artifacts and sites. Authors offer a few facts and many thumbnails of images that when clicked, provide further information on Hopewell artifacts,...
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Hopewell Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Park Service provides an overview of the Hopewell Culture as well as information about the historical park itself. Click on History and Culture, Places, Current Research, and Hopewell Archeology Newsletter for more information.
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Website
Other

Pittsburg Post Gazette: Ohio Embankments Evidence of Sophisticated Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
News article offering details of Great Circle of Newark Earthworks.
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Website
Other

North Georgia History: Georgia's Moundbuilders

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of Archaic, Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures. Site offers links and pictures of Etowah Indian Mounds, Kolomoki Mounds, and Earth Lodge at Ocmulgee.
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Graphic
Other

Ohio Historical Society: Late Woodland Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hopewell culture seems to have changed and morphed into a new society, a society that lived in villages and were supported by raising plant crops. Thumbnail images provide more information on the life of these Late Woodland cultures...
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Website
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Prehistory

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a chronological listing of the different prehistoric cultures living primarily in Ohio from the Paleoindian period to the late prehistoric period. Hyperlinks lead to individual sites about the particular cultures.
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Article
Archaeological Institute of America

Archaeology Magazine Archive: Who Were the Hopewell?

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this informative article from the Archaelogy Magazine discussing the Hopewell culture, its agriculture and village life, and primarilty the ceremonial earthworks for which the culture is so famous.
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Handout
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Hopewell Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Hopewell Culture includes discussion on its artwork, materials used in art and building, earthworks, living arrangements, and source of the name.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Ohio's Early Inhabitants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses Ohio's earliest inhabitants including Mound Builders and Glacial Kame People.