The kids and I did two field trips in one day last Friday! We had a great time and were all tuckered out by the end of the day.
First we went to the Etowah Indian Mounds in Cartersville, GA. This is one of the many GA Historic Sites and it was absolutely breathtaking. They are also part of the GA State Historic Sites Geo Challenge, so we were able to log our first historic site cache.
It was home to several thousand Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D. It is 54-acres and contains six earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and defensive ditch. It is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeastern United States.
First we went to the Etowah Indian Mounds in Cartersville, GA. This is one of the many GA Historic Sites and it was absolutely breathtaking. They are also part of the GA State Historic Sites Geo Challenge, so we were able to log our first historic site cache.
It was home to several thousand Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D. It is 54-acres and contains six earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and defensive ditch. It is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeastern United States.
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| This is a model of what the village may have looked like. |
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| Wattle and Daub house. |
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| This is the largest and smallest mound. The larger mound was where the Chief and his family lived. |
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| Chiefs Mound. |
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| The kids sitting on top of the Burial Mound. |
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| The kids with the GeoCache box. The each took a GA State Park Whistle and left some little toys. We also signed the log book. |
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| Located in Cartersville, GA. |
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| This showed all of the earthquakes that were happening around the world that same day and also within the last 2 weeks ago, 5 years etc. |
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| Checking out Amethyst. |
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| T- Rex! |
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| The kids touched this unusual object then we lifted the flap to reveal what it was...fossil Dinosaur poop, yuck! |
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| Gwyn in a space suit. |
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| Gem panning. Each child get to take home a baggie with the gems they find. |
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| Fossil digging. Each child gets to take home an actual fossil. My two decided on the shark teeth. |
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| The kids and I stopped to take a photo on this very large rock as we were leaving the museum. |
The kids learned a lot on these trips. When we got home they colored their Indian pages they got at the Mounds and told Daddy all about the cool things they learned. I am going to put their gems and fossils into little glass bottles and make necklaces out of them.
Next time your in GA be sure to check out these great places. They are only about 10 minutes apart from each other and both can definitely be fit into one day.
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I really like the earthquake station-looks like great Homeschool fun! Thanks for linking up @ HSBA & @HOTM :-) Nice to "meet" you.
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