If your class visits Kingsley Plantation, have your students look for Spanish moss in the trees. Over the years the name took on what some people thought to be a more sophisticated name, Spanish moss. When the French arrived in what we call America, they asked the same question of the Native Americans, and the natives replied that it was "tree hair," or "Itla-okla." The French used their own imaginations and called it Spanish Beard, because it reminded them of the long black beards of the earlier Spanish explorers. Students will identify uses of Spanish moss from the time of the Timucua Indians to the present. John's River have used Spanish Moss is many ways. Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade Subject: Literacy and Language Arts,Science
0 kommentar(er)
