The Lodge
Overview:
This part of the site deals with information found in the Visitor Center which has
a full size replica of the lodge. This was constructed by guessing from the holes
and remains. Inside the lodge is the Cache Pits which were started as a place to store food and
then when bugs and mice infested these, they used it to store garbage. From
these cache pits, archeologists could find out about their diet, tools,
pottery, etc. The cache pits are
of rich historical significance.
Purpose:
To help students understand about the culture of this prehistoric Indian
group from the remains of their homes and cache pits.
Suggested Activities for
Cache Pits
1.
Look at cache pit items and name them.
2. Compare
and contrast their garbage to ours.
3. Dig
a hole in the ground and find the temperature.
4. Word
find and matching. (Answers to Cache
Pit Word Search)
5. Compare
our fridges to a cache pit.
6. Draw
and a picture of what you would put in the cache pit.
7. Make
a collage of what we throw into our garbage.
Suggested Activities for Lodges (Homes)
Materials:
Sketching paper for designing a room
Popsicle sticks
Different types of American Indian Housing on the web site.
Activities:
Students may design a miniature replica of a lodge, using Popsicle sticks.
Students may write a short essay on the topic—“Some things that would be
different for me if my family would all have to live
in one room, along with my grandparents. Could
possibly include some dialogue here.
Math/Art—design a room that would work for you if you had to share it with siblings,
parents and grandparents.
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