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What is Legacy Educator Lesson Plans?
These Educator Lesson Plans are developed based on Lakeland's Legacy-funded productions and can be utilized free of charge by educators in their classroom settings.
Made possible by the Legacy Amendment.
Explore the natural resources, history, and recreational backdrops of Northern Minnesota.
Lesson Objective: To identify and explain a problem and a solution to an environmental problem in Minnesota’s history by researching and creating a presentation.
Solutions for Natural Resource Obstacles
A tour of the long-closed Croft Mine Museum reignites memories, & future hopes are shared
Lesson Objective: After studying what mining in Minnesota was like during the early 20th century, students will create a historical fiction story written in the format of a journal in first-person point-of-view.
Historical Journal Activity
David Dobbs demonstrates his painting process from beginning to end.
Lesson Objective: To understand the concepts of pixels within a digital image and to recreate an image using this style of art.
Pixelated Paintings
Grant Goltz's shares his theory of how precontact indigenous people made Blackduck pottery.
Lesson Objective: To create pottery using the coil technique used by indigenous tribes and to learn about the cultural traditions of Minnesota American Indian tribes.
Coil Pottery
Explore the dams that are a prominent feature of many of the waterways of Minnesota.
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to identify and explain the environmental and economical advantages and disadvantages of the major energy sources.
Energy Source Pros/Cons Activity
The Sustainable Sheep & Fiber Community of Northern MN creates a Yurt.
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to show an understanding of the characteristics of the nomadic life of the Mongolian people by researching and writing an expository essay.
Mongolian Culture Research