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. Learn more
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
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 indiginous tribes and to learn about 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.
