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.
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Available Lessons:
Boardwalks to Bike Paths
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: Download Lesson PDF
Croft Mine History Museum
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: Download Lesson PDF
David Dobbs: Painter
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: Download Lesson PDF
Grant Goltz: Rethinking Blackduck Pottery
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: Download Lesson PDF
Harnessing The Headwaters: First Dams of the Mississippi
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: Download Lesson PDF
Wool Yurt Mural: Part 1 of 2
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.
