Buena Vista University - 2008 Interim Session

Adventures in Iowa's Natural and Cultural Heritage

Bring your sense of adventure to this class as you explore Iowa’s natural and cultural heritage through lecture, readings, and hands-on activities. Determine how to identify Iowa fossils by sorting specimens and searching for new ones like a shark coprolite. Appreciate the Mill Creek prehistoric culture by making authentic pottery using techniques that are thousands of years old. Practice early settler skills like fire starting with flint and steel. You will make your own snowshoes to keep. Discover the gravestones of the early Iowans and witch for unmarked grave sites. Find out about local plant life through leaf identification, tree rings, and flower dissection. Use a clinometer to measure a tree’s height.