NATIVE AMERICANS (all 4 units)-Social Studies Notebooking-With Reading Passages!

Interactive Social Studies Notebooks are wonderful, and fun, ways to introduce your students to geography!

I've been using notebooks in Social Studies for several years now, and I love it! My units involve a lot of reading, and even includes mini-books and reading passages! These mini-books have foldables and other activities that focus on reading skills, such as summarizing, looking for main idea and details, highlighting important information, taking notes, etc. My students have loved watching their notebooks grow throughout the school year and enjoy looking back at what they have learned.

This 74 page Native Americans packet is my complete Native Americans unit. It is a stand-alone unit, so it DOES NOT require a text book. The activities in this unit include the following items (and more!):

INTRO AND VOCABULARY

-KWL Chart

-Unit Title Pages

-Defining Vocabulary Mini-Book

-Vocabulary BINGO Board

-Vocabulary Matching Cards and Pockets

EASTERN WOODLANDS

-A 3-page mini-book about the Eastern Woodlands tribes

-2 reading response foldables

-Information page on Wampum

-Wampum response activity

GREAT PLAINS

-A 3-page mini-book about the Great Plains tribes

-Symbols of the Great Plains

-Uses of Buffalo diagram

-Uses of Buffalo foldable

SOUTHWEST DESERT

-A 3-page mini-book about the Southwest Desert tribes

-Southwest Desert foldable

-Snake Dance foldable

-Petroglyphs mini-book

-Petroglyphs chart

NORTHWEST COAST

-A 3-page mini-book about the Northwest Coast tribes

-Northwest Coast foldable

-Shaman foldable

-Totem Poles information page

-Totem Poles foldable

WRAP-UPS

-5 "wrap-up" activities that encourage students to apply the information they've learned during the unit.

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Click below to find more notebooking units:

Geography

Explorers

Colonial America

American Revolution

U.S. Government

Westward Expansion

I also have notebooking bundles available:

Notebook Bundles

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For more information on how I use close reading in my classroom, visit my blog,Fearless 5th Grade.