Essential Question How did location impact the everyday life and culture of the Native American groups?
Learning Tasks/Activities:
Students will read closely the Lerner eBook A Timeline of History of Early American Indian Peoples (pages are listed on the organizer). They will use the Timeline of History of Early American Indian Peoples organizer to summarize the text. (DOK 1-3). A Timeline using Google Docs Students will view the Discovery Education video clip “Migration into North America.” They will analyze the video using the video analysis sheet. (DOK 2-3) Students will read closely ReadWorks.org “Native Americans: Traditional Native American Homes” and ReadWorks.org “Native Americans: The Plains Indians.” They will identify cause and effect relationships between geography and daily life using the Native Americans graphic organizer. (DOK 2-3) Students will read closely the ABDO eBook Worlds Collide in Early America (United States Series) (from page 5 to page 11). They will use the High 5 and Gist graphic organizer to summarize the text. (DOK 1-3). Students will read closely ReadWorks.org “Native American Settlements.” They will answer questions about the text in small group and whole group discussion and/or notebook responses using the Native American Settlements text discussion questions. (DOK 1-3). |
It is essential for students to know:
The everyday lives of Native Americans depended on the region in which they lived and how they interacted with their physical environment. Eastern Woodlands Native Americans lived in the eastern part of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, including the Great Lakes region and south to the Gulf of Mexico. Plains Native Americans lived on the Great Plains of central North America from north of what is today the Canadian border to present-day southern Texas. Southwest Native Americans lived in the region that included what is today Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Utah. Great Basin Native Americans lived in the region east of the Northwest coast in today’s Nevada, Idaho, and Utah. Pacific Northwest Native Americans lived in the region that included what is today southern Alaska to northern California. In order to compare these Native American groups attention should be paid to the following: How did the group get their food? Were they hunter-gathers or did they farm? Was the group’s everyday life based on frequent migration, or did they live in permanent villages? How did their physical environment influence the type of homes that they constructed, the clothes that they wore, and the food that they ate? What were their cultural practices, including beliefs and religious practices? How were they governed? |