Native Americans & America Before Columbus & Colonization: Group Jigsaw Activity
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Teaching about life in the Americas before colonization? Use this group activity to help students understand the cultures, advancements, beliefs, and practices of indigenous peoples in the Americas before European colonization in the 1400s. This activity is designed to prompt students to consider the complexity and diversity of Native American groups before colonization.
PDF Activity Includes:
- 2 brief warm-ups with questions to start the lesson
- 10 Excerpts, each with different aspects of Native American life in the Americas before European colonization
- Student handout chart
- Student summarizing questions
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Activity comes with group readings for 7 groups and a class chart for students to add to during the JIGSAW learning portion of the activity. Each student will read at least one portion of "America Before Columbus" and gain a better understanding of life in the Americas before colonization.
The readings discuss:
- large settlements in the Americas
- complexity of indigenous civilizations
- scientific and mathematical achievements of indigenous peoples
- religious rituals
- agricultural practices, like land management, controlled burns, canals, etc.
- government structures, like the Iroquois Confederacy
- Cahokia, Poverty Point, Tenochtitlan, and more
- Mississippian cultures and mound builders, Aztec civilization, Mayan civilization
This activity has 10 sections and is flexible! Here are some options for use:
- Stations or gallery walk around the room
- Partners or Small Groups
- Jigsaw: Students are assigned different “Sections”. Students become an “expert” on their section and then teach their portion to their groupmates. In this activity, you could have groups of up to 10 students if you assign all the sections.
- Individually
This activity includes discussion of indigenous communities in modern day North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. I have used this resource in U.S. and World History courses with 9th and 10th grade students
This resources includes information about indigenous groups' lives, advancements, and cultures prior to European colonization. This lesson combats the myths that the Americas were sparsely populated, uninhabited wilderness. Instead, the lesson reveals the complexity and diversity of Native American life in the Americas pre-colonization.
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