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Documenting Where We Are

For Teachers K - 8th
Students contribute to discussions and identify how an artist elicits a viewer's response. They use William Henry Jackson's Pawnee Indian Village, photograph and painting. After analyzing this information, students use information gained...
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'Native Americans in Arkansas" Game

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, after an initial study of Native Americans in Arkansas, 8th graders play a game using three different colored cards with the terms "CADDO", "QUAPAW", and " OSAGE", on them
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Native American Lesson Plan: Someone's in the Kitchen

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use vocabulary necessary to complete cooking activities and tell others about the food. They discuss similarities and differences between Native American and other nationalities' foods made in their families.
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Sharing Their Stories: Native American Literature and Culture in 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate Native American culture reading and writing about early Native American authors. They listen to an expert to extend their understanding of the culture.
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Technology Rich Native American Unit

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Student groups retell stories from Iroquois storytellers. They role-play Iroquois women, men and children and explain their roles. They read "Knots on a Counting Rope" and make up their own stories. They create timelines. They visit a...
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The Indian Way of Life

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how Native Americans developed their lifestyles and houses based on geographic location.
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The Seasons of Thanks

For Teachers 1st
First graders explain the Native American cyclical concept of time
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Rain Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify part of the Native American culture and perform a "rain dance".
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Native American Presence in Deerfield, Massachusetts

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine how in this volatile period, colonial powers and Native groups competed for trade goods and land, coming into conflict repeatedly. They also explore primary and secondary sources.
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Native American "Did You Know..." Cards

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this social studies worksheet, students research facts about Native Americans and write them on a card with the title "Native Americans: Did you know..." There are no directions on the page that has full color Native American pictures.
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Systems of Power Against and Within American Indian Communities, 1880-1940

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore methods and the struggles of power between the federal policies and Native populations. They discuss the issue of controlling the Native Indian population, driving them from their land, and providing a mandatory...
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Escape - Civil War

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders role play the Underground Railroad in this lesson. They review the Underground Railroad and how people used it during the Civil War. They then are divided into groups, and role play with each group taking a different...
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders write a two to three page paper addressing one of the following topics: Analyze the values and beliefs of the two conflicting cultures. Explain which values seem to dominate within the conflict and why. They brainstorm...
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Native American

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples. They comprehend that Europeans had misconceptions about Native American literacy...
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The Americas: A Picture Diagram In Inspiration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take notes on the history of Native Americans and arrange those notes using the Inspiration program to create a diagrm showing the three main areas where Native Americans lived in this interactive computer-based lesson plan for...
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Paper Mache Birds - Pueblo Pottery Inspired

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the Pueblo culture and art work. Students compare and contrast various forms of artistic expression and discover how artists get ideas. Students use a variety of resources to gain an examineing of artists and art forms....
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Native American Trivia Book

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research information about the Eastern Woodland Indians for a class trivia book. They Save, proofread, and print out their trivia sheet and design a cover page for the book.
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SIRS Discover: Native American Biographies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in cooperative groups to select and evaluate appropriate magazine articles on Native Americans. They view the program SIRS Discoverer, complete activity sheets then perform oral presentations.
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Native American Cultures

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the Native American Heritage and explore their customs cultures. They discover characteristics of the Native Americans through the study of their art, artifacts, stories and symbols.
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WINTER-STORYTELLING

For Teachers K
The student evaluate illustrations in a book, identify a story or book as distinctly Native American, draw original illustrations for a story, create a flip book, listen attentively to stories from a known storyteller, act out a story,...
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Before the White Men Came to Nisqually Country

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students work individually, or in pairs, to complete the questions on the "Map Activity" worksheet.
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North Carolina Place Names

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine a map of North Carolina to discover the heritage left behind in the names of various places. They compare/contrast those derived from Native American culture to those derived from European settlers.
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Heritage: Legends, Fairy Tales and the Native Americans

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compare and contrast a Native American legend with a fairy tale and share their ideas by creating a venn diagram.
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Pages Out of the Past

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students examine examples of rock art and the reasons why they were made. They translate the images into a creative writing piece that be attached to their own rock art.