OTHER HELPFUL LINKS:
Louisiana Regional & Station Archaeologists
Contracting Archaeologists List
Native American Contacts
Louisiana Cultural Economy
Activity Booklets
Poverty Point Expeditions, by Debbie Buco, contains archaeology activities for elementary and middle school students. This booklet is available to teachers free of charge from the Division of Archaeology. Click the links below to see full content:
| Cover | The "Do It Yourself" Atlatl: (lesson) (handout) |
| Visit Poverty Point | Poverty Point Cooking Balls: (lesson) (handout) |
| Introduction | Cooking in an Earth Oven: (lesson) (handout) |
| An Overview | Poverty Point Ovens: Getting the Temperature Right!: (lesson) (handout) (datasheet) |
| Timeline of History | Prehistoric Pump Drills: (lesson) (handout) |
| Our Poverty Point Addresses: (lesson) (overhead) | Perplexing Poverty Point Figurines: (lesson) (overhead) (handout) |
| Topography Training: (lesson) (handout) (map) | The Run for the Ridges |
| Building a Mound for the Birds: (lesson) (overhead) | Home, Home on the Ridge: (lesson) (handout) |
| Bird Gods? Fox Man? Long Tail? Too Good to Myth!: (lesson) (overhead) (handout) | Artifacts All Over the Place: (lesson) (handout) (datasheet) |
| Wattle You Build Next?: (lesson ) (handout) | Atlatl Antics: (lesson) (overhead) (handout) (data sheet) |
| Appendixes |
Adventures in Classroom Archaeology, by Connie Nobles, contains archaeology activities for grades K-12. This booklet is available to teachers free of charge through the Division of Archaeology.
Classroom Archaeology, by Nancy Hawkins, contains archaeology activities for middle school students. This booklet is available to teachers free of charge through the Division of Archaeology.
Louisiana Indians Long Ago is a picture book for lower elementary school students. This booklet is available to teachers free of charge from the Division of Archaeology.