Mounds of earth and shell: Native Sites: the Southeast (Native Dwellings)

This book does a good job of covering the ancient civilizations that once inhabited the southeastern U.S. It includes lots of great pictures which should help young kids (and their parents) envision what life would have been like back then. Can't go wrong with this one. A great video to go along with this book would be the  Lost Worlds: Georgia (Second Edition)  DVD. It features great 3-D reconstructions and animations of these ancient civilizations plus interviews with archaeologists and park rangers at six of the most important Native American sites in Georgia.

I bought this as we're doing a homeschool study on Native Americans. We live in Florida where some of the Native Americans who built shell mounds lived. I knew nothing about them--so really learned a lot from this book (and the others in the series). It's a short book, but packed with information. My son (age 9) liked the book as well--and it was easily at a 3rd grade or 4th grader reading level. We paired the series with the  History Pockets: Native Americans, Grades 1-3  and  Draw Write Now, Book 3: Native Americans, North America, Pilgrims (Draw-Write-Now)

In teaching ancient history to elementary students, I found it so hard to get great books at their level in this subject area, especially for the Western hemisphere, and North America in particular. Additionally, our schools focus so much on the native American tribes we tend to ignore where they began. Shemie's book focuses on the earliest Americans of the eastern half of the country, their earthen structures, and their capital of Cahokia (near modern-day St. Louis). The text is written beautifully, with simpler text on one page followed by more detailed information, so it is great for a student (or class) and teacher to read together. I used this with first graders, but especially because of the mixed-level text, it would be appropriate for older students as well. It makes a great introduction to the study of the genius of the early Americans, and my students were able to make some great comparisions between these structures and those of the Mayans, Aztecs, Egyptians and Mesopotamians. Living near Chicago, we were able to follow up this study with a class trip to the Cahokia Mounds state park. (Note: the park has a fantastic visitors' center with a brief but very well done video presentation, museum exhibits, and store with teaching materials)

Rather worthless for research even at grade school level.

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