Native American SUPER PACK Bundle

This huge bundle of resources has everything you need for a comprehensive study of historic Native American customs and traditions. The NATIVE AMERICAN SUPER PACK BUNDLE includes FIVE activity books, NINE cross-curricular activities, FIVE 11 x 17 inch posters, and a set of SIXTY pictograph game cards.

Books Included:

• Native American Games features ten traditional games played by Native American children and adults. The games utilize simple materials found in nature, and the book includes instructions and a vocabulary review activity.
• Native American Homes is an interactive cut-and-glue book that explores the way environment and lifestyle influenced 8 different types of historic homes built by Native Americans across the United States.
• Native American Medicine Wheel uses a variety of interactive activities to explore the history and symbolism of the medicine wheel in Native American culture.
• Native American Voices highlights the quotes and contributions of twelve historic and modern-day Native Americans—Powhatan, Sequoyah, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, Will Rogers, Jim Thorpe, Maria Tallchief, Peter MacDonald (Navajo Code Talker), John Herrington (astronaut), and Deb Haaland (Secretary of the Interior)--and includes a crossword review.

Posters and Games Included:

• Native American Pictographs is an 11 x 17 inch poster of forty commonly-used Native American symbols, which can be used to create original picture-writing stories.
• The Native American Poster Pack contains four 11 x 17 inch posters—Arts, Daily Life, Foods, and Homes—illustrated with colorful photographs.
• The Pictograph Game Card Pack contains 60 pictograph game cards, as well as blank cards for adding additional symbols, a fact sheet about pictographs and petroglyphs, and a bonus lunar calendar activity.

Cross-Curricular Activities Included:

• Ancient Ancestors uses a fill-in-the-blank format to introduce the ancient origins of two prehistoric Native American cultures—the Clovis Culture of the United States and the Heiltsuk Nation of Canada.
• Bison or Buffalo? compares the characteristics of the American bison and African Cape Buffalo.
• Native American Homes highlights eight historic Native American homes with a cut-and-glue format that allows students to match descriptions and pictures.
• Native American Nations (Before European Exploration) is a mapping activity that illustrates the location of major tribes across America before the arrival of European settlers. It also includes a colorful mini-poster that also serves as the answer key.
• Pictograph Puzzler challenges students to identify common picture-writing symbols, using a word bank.
• The American Bison is a labeling activity that illustrates how tribes of the Great Plains used every part of the buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter.
• The Great Eagle is a symmetrical drawing activity that focuses on the eagle as a symbol of power and strength in Native American storytelling traditions, as well as in the national symbols of countries around the world.
• The Top Ten introduces the ten largest Native American nations in the United States today, using a word search format.
• BONUS ACTIVITY: The People- In most cases, the names we commonly use to identify Native American nations were given to them by outsiders. In their own languages, a surprising number of nations identify themselves as simply, The People. This bonus word search puzzle features the original names of 14 well-known Native American cultures.

BONUS BOOK:

• Native American Cultures: From Apache to Zuni is a great way to introduce your Native American studies and contains information about the homes, clothing, diet, and traditions of more than two dozen historic tribes. The following Native American Nations are included: Apache, Blackfoot, Chippewa (Ojibwe), Delaware, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Fox, Great Plains culture, Hopi, Inuit, Jumano, Kickapoo, Lakota Sioux, Mojave, Navajo, Omaha, Powhatan, Quapaw, Rappahannock, Seminole, Tlingit, Ute, Violet (Native American medicines), Wampanoag, SquaXin, Yurok, and Zuni

Vocabulary Words:**

adobe, ancestor, artifact, chickee, chief, cradleboard, dugout, fetish, hogan, igloo, kachina, lacrosse, maize, moccasins, nations, oral tradition, pestle, pottery, powwow, roach, Sacred Hoop, Three Sisters, tipi, totem pole, warrior

Targeted Skills:**

• Identifying cultural similarities and differences among Native American groups
• Identifying historic customs and traditions of different Native American groups
• Understanding the ancient origins of Native American cultures
• Describing how geography affects culture (for example, the types of homes built)
• Identifying contributions of Native Americans throughout history
• Describing the importance of the bison to tribes living on the Great Plains
• Creating and using a map key
• Using pictographs to write a story
• Identifying names of different Native American nations
• Critical thinking skills of comparing, contrasting, and drawing conclusions based on facts
• Building content-area literacy in social studies
• Reading fluency and comprehension

**Because this bundle is so large, I have only included partial lists of targeted vocabulary words and skills.

Sample Pages: Please see the preview for sample images of the books, posters, and activities. To view additional images, click on the thumbnails shown above to view the individual resources.

Image Credits: This bundle features realistic illustrations and real-life photographs. The illustrations are my own original drawings (©Dr.J). The photos come from a variety of sources, including copyright-free images, copyrighted images licensed under the Creative Commons, and copyrighted images that I have purchased for commercial use. Please see the Image Credits Page, included with the relevant resources, for a detailed list of image sources.

Technical Info: The resources are in PDF format. The activities, posters, and game cards are combined into zip files.

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NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVITY PACKS: Check out these resources about specific Native American nations.

• Discovering the Cherokee Nation Activity Pack
• Discovering the Chippewa (Ojibwe) Nation Activity Pack
• Discovering the Great Sioux Nation Activity Pack
• Discovering the Hopi and Pueblo Nations Activity Pack
• Discovering the Iroquois Confederacy Activity Pack
• Discovering the Navajo Nation Activity Pack
• FREE: Discovering the Shoshone and Comanche Nations Activity Pack
• Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

CLICK HERE to view all of my Native American resources, including Native American language books about counting and colors.

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