Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Native Americans and the Natural World
Explore the rich cultures of Native Americans through literature, storytelling, and fun, hands-on activities. Learners will gain an understanding of how and where Native Americans lived in the past and today, as well as their...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Native American Dolls [Pdf]
Students examine dolls from the online collections at the Smithsonian and connect them with the correct cultures. Includes lots of background information about Native American clothing and how the way each cultural group dresses reflects...
PBS
Pbs: Using Supporting Evidence to Interpret Meaning a Native American Folktale
In this instructional activity, learners will watch a video clip with a Native American storyteller telling a traditional story. Students will use supporting evidence from the story to give meaning to oral and written texts.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With Native Americans
In this lesson you will define the term barter and give examples of bartering in several different areas. Find out how this system took shape and was useful to Lewis and Clark. This site is extremely informative and contains extension...
Other
Texas Council on Economic Education: Building an Economy: Texas Experience [Pdf]
A 14-lesson, 169-page unit on the economic history of Texas. Lessons cover the free enterprise system, the economic patterns and motivations of Native Americans and various immigrant groups, the impact of the closing of the frontier, the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Indian Boarding Schools
The Library of Congress provides a series of lessons that taddresses historical efforts of assimilating Native American children into white culture through boarding schools.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving
Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Native American and Greek Myths
During this unit of study, 5th graders will learn about myths. Students will explore several myths from various cultures. They will then seek to identify these myths in various constellations. Students will reflect on their own beliefs...
Crayola
Crayola: Hides That Reveal (Lesson Plan)
A fun lesson plan for a class studying Native American culture. Students create their own tepees, or animal hides with designs and symbols representing their own personality. Also contains adaptations and resources. (To access this...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With the Native Americans
Using the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering.
University of Maryland
Umbc Center for History Education: Reshaping American Society
Using this history lab, students will examine the impact immigration had on urbanization and the reform movements of the time, as well as the addressing the backlash to immigration by understanding nativism.
PBS
Pbs: Indian Country Diaries, Tribal Sovereignty Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will ask students to review sections of A Seat at the Drum and Spiral of Fire where the many issues of tribal sovereignty are evident. Students will be asked to research the sovereignty issues facing a tribe that resides...
California State University
Csu: Arts Education K 6 Music Lessons
Several wonderful lesson plans for teachers seeking to incorporate music into the curriculum.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan
In this instructional activity from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that...
Utah Education Network
Uen: How the Meanings of Colors Transmit Navajo Culture
Identify the four colors important to the Navajos and understand how these colors represent different elements of Navajo culture.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Norval Morrisseau (Lesson Plan)
A wonderful educational art site from KinderArt that includes creating a work of art in a style similar to that of Morrisseau. Includes a short biography, art vocabulary, and information on Ojibwa culture.
Other
Lesson Plan: Writing a Haiku
Check out this lesson plan on haiku that includes samples by Richard Wright. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational tool.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Writing Myths
With this lesson plan students can examine creation myths, then write their own unique story. Provides plenty of links to more information, an assessment rubric, and thirteen extension ideas!
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: A Listening Doll
In this lesson plan, students explore the tradition of Pueblo "Listening dolls" and create their own version of this historical tradition. Also contains a rubric, extensions, and books to use as references.
Microsoft
Microsoft: The Story of Sacagawea's Son Pomp
Lewis and Clark traveled for two years and covered 4,000 miles to reach the Pacific Ocean. They had the help of a young Native American girl, Sacagawea, who carried with her a small baby! Students will learn about the Lewis and Clark...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Effigy Mounds National Monument on Line Teacher's Guide
An extensive guide to lesson plans created by teachers about the mound building Indians.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Sioux Treaty of 1868
The National Archives and Records Administration highlights the Sioux Treaty of 1868. The lesson plan provided here relates to the power granted to the president and the Senate in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, of the U.S....