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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Not Fabric?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate art from Native American culture by creating fabric. In this native art analysis lesson, students identify the art of Plains Indians and discuss how it is represented in their fabrics, beads and decorations....
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Native Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit features the rich oral tradition of Native Americans storytelling in various genres predating the introduction and influence of English writings, bringing three contemporary authors to light. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts,...
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Interactive
Other

National Museum of Australia: Oscar's Sketchbook

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive museum exhibit, flip through the pages of this aboriginal man's sketchbook from Queensland, Australia in the 1880s.
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Website
Other

The Heard Museum: Native Cultures and Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Website of the Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art in Phoenix, Arizona. This site offers a look at over seven decades of Native American history and art.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Song for the Horse Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition about horses in Native American cultures takes a sweeping look at the ways in which Native peoples, past and present, regard horses and horsemanship. Learn how the horse transformed Native approaches to the hunt, warfare,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Native Cultures in the Americas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is part of a project-based, hands-on unit in which children discover the native cultures that existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of explorers. The students will "become" part of their assigned culture through...