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Native Americans projects for homeschool
Native American Craft: Family Totem Pole Project
Family Totem Pole Social Studies Project:This family totem pole project is a great way for students to understand that totem poles are monuments created by First Nations of the Pacific Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, history, people, or events. Project steps:1. Students read about the totem pole symbols used by the Pacific Northwest Native Americans.2. The students choose totem pole symbols from the list provided that represent their family members. Please note that this is not
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3rd - 5th
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Native American Regions Mini-Unit: Pacific Northwest
Each Native American Region is unique and should be taught separately. The Pacific Northwest Region is fascinating and has a rich cultural heritage. My Native American regional units are focused on pre-contact cultures but the descendants of many of the tribes we study continue to practice their cultural traditions today. Contents of this mini-unit: Teacher NotesPacific Northwest Region MapPassage 1: Overview of the Pacific Northwest Region and Religious Beliefs/Oral History - Includes a cloze p
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Social Studies Big Bundle
History Crime Scene Investigation: The Lost Colony of Roanoke CSI
Want a great way for students to engage in a group activity while they examine maps, artifacts, primary sources, and solve a historical mystery? Download The Lost Colony of Roanoke CSI!
This exciting activity can be used to challenge individual students or to encourage collaboration in groups of up to five. Students form CSI teams and examine real evidence from the Roanoke to determine what happened to the colonists. It's a great way to encourage students to support historical arguments with r
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7th - 11th
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Native American Regions Mini-Unit Bundle
Native American regions are diverse and each region should be taught separately. My Native American regional units are focused on pre-contact cultures but the descendants of many of the tribes we study continue to practice their cultural traditions today.Structure of the mini-units: Teacher NotesRegional MapsBrief informational passages with comprehension-building cloze passagesGallery Walk: A low-prep primary source activity. Simply print one copy of each of the six primary source pages and mak
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5th - 6th
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Native American Heritage Month Reading Writing Activity Indigenous Peoples Day
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month this November and Indigenous Peoples Day and honor and learn about Indigenous Peoples. This easy-to-use research project is broken down step by step to help your students write a research essay and complete a project independently.This writing pack will help your students complete a research project about the Indigenous People who once lived in the area you now live in OR select any Native American group of interest.Link included with an interactive map t
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Native American Heritage Month Reading Activities Indigenous Peoples'
Native American Regions- Projects Bundle
This bundle include the following resources: - Native Americans of the Great Plains- Native Americans of the Northwest Coast- Native Americans of the Southwest Project- Native Americans of the Eastern WoodlandsIn this bundle you will receive: - 16 Non-Fiction Texts - 4 Writing Prompts (Responding to Reading)- 8 Graphic Organizers- 4 Maps with Prompts- 8 Worksheets - 8 Rubrics- & more (77 Total Pages)!I have this resource in an interactive Google Version here: Native American Bundle | Google
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5th - 8th
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Native American Diorama Project: PowerPoint, Research Boxes, and Rubric
This is a PowerPoint that is designed to be used as a mini-unit with the studies of North American Native Americans.
Included in this PowerPoint:
*A page of websites that one can use with students to research independent Native American Tribes and/or to get names of tribes to assign to students.
*A page of research boxes that students can use to write down information found while researching.
*Step-by-step slides that describe, in detail, the requirements of the diorama project.
*Scoring rubr
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3rd - 6th
California Missions - Printable Pop Up Diorama Craft - All 21 Missions
Are you looking for a fun hands on activity to go along with a report on a California mission? Are you tired are doing the same mission models every year? Are you looking for a simple craft to enhance your unit on the California missions?
This simple print and go craft is an easy pop up diorama. Two style options are included for each of the 21 California missions. You can have the students draw and add things or people to the scenery or as a pop up. You can also simply have the students c
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K - 4th
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Sitting Bull Collaboration Poster: Great Native American Heritage Month Activity
Sitting Bull Collaboration Portrait Poster – 2 options included plus bonus materials. These activities are intended to complement/supplement any lessons on Sitting Bull and are great for your Native American Studies. Also Available: Famous Faces® of Native Americans Collaborative Poster featuring 8 important Native Americans (including Sitting Bull).*Maria Tallchief is also Available HERE.The final posters make for visually engaging displays. Hang them anywhere!The front officeAn auditoriumA hal
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2nd - 9th
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Native American Regions Mini-Unit: Eastern Woodlands
Each Native American Region is unique and should be taught separately. The Eastern Woodlands Region is fascinating for students! My Native American regional units are focused on pre-contact cultures but the descendants of many of the tribes we study continue to practice their cultural traditions today.Contents of this mini-unit:Teacher NotesEastern Woodlands Region MapPassage 1: Overview of the Eastern Woodlands Region and the Importance of Trees - Includes a cloze passage to help students proce
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Social Studies Big Bundle
Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea BIOGRAPHY BUNDLE - 9 Projects - 30% OFF
A ready-to-go, time-saver! Students will love researching and reporting on the adventurous lives of Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea as they construct one of nine different hands-on projects—3 agamographs, 3 circle books, and 3 big galoots. These projects make it easy to include art and hands-on learning in your classroom, and they make a vibrant bulletin board display.These ready-to-go projects work well with units that focus on writing biographies, studying the American Expansion or the Westward
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3rd - 7th
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Create Animal Totem Poles | Native American Heritage Cultural Totem Symbols
Looking for a hands-on activity to create Native American Totem Poles? This lesson includes everything you need including background information, templates, vocabulary and animal cut-outs! It's perfect for Native American Heritage month or anytime during the year to go along with your lessons about Native American history.Your students will learn about the importance of Totem Poles and the animals important to Native American culture! Students will learn about Totem Poles and the animals used to
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1st - 5th
Native American Regions Mini-Unit: Great Plains
Each Native American Region is unique and should be taught separately. The Great Plains Region is interesting to students and adults alike! My Native American regional units are focused on pre-contact cultures but the descendants of many of the tribes we study continue to practice their cultural traditions today. Contents of this mini-unit: Teacher NotesGreat Plains Region MapPassage 1: Overview of the Great Plains Region and Hunting - Includes a cloze passage to help students process the infor
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Social Studies Big Bundle
Biography Banners + Pennants - Native American History
Celebrate the lives + accomplishments of Native American heroes + historical figures with these research pennants! This is the perfect project for November (Native American History Month)-- or any time you want your students to study inspirational figures while developing their research + informational writing skills.Encourage student choice + creativity. How? invite kids to customize their pennants by letting them choose which writing prompts they will respond to. This level of student choice
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Biography Banners + Pennants Bundle
Native American Heritage Month Activities - NAHM Biography Banners - Project
This Native American Heritage Month biography research project is one of my favorite Native American Heritage Month activities for middle school and high school students to learn about influential Native American individuals. Students are in complete control of this project as they select their individual, research their lives, and create an informational banner to educate their classmates about their Native American individual.Take back your time with this LOW PREP project that comes in both PR
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5th - 8th
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Molas - Templates for 10 different designs from the Guna people of Panama
Molas are the traditional textile art form of the indigenous Guna people. These mola templates are ‘paper molitas’. They’re printed on colored paper, cut out and glued together to create pictures.The Guna live on coral islands off the coast of Panama. Before the arrival of the European colonizers, they painted their upper bodies with protective symbols to ward off disease, evil spirits, and demons. They got the colors for their paints from various fruits, plants, and minerals. When the European
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2nd - 5th
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Create a Legend Step-by-Step Writing Project | Native American Reading Passage
Looking for an activity about creating legends? This resource includes everything students need to write their own legend: Example Reading Passage, Guided How-to, Theme Topics, Writing Organizers, Legend Elements Checklist, Peer & Self-Editing & Feedback, Covers and more! First, inspire and introduce the project by reading an included Native American Legend. Next, use the How-To guide and checklist to explain the elements of a legend. Optional theme topics are included for planning. Writ
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5th - 8th
Arctic Birds Inspired by Inuit Prints: Art Lesson for Grades 4-7
These Arctic birds are a fantastic project to build drawing and printmaking skills while learning about Inuit art from Canada’s Arctic Circle. The lesson includes 18 line drawings of Arctic birds, with step-by-step instructions on how to draw each. The kids love having so many choices of birds, and the handouts really help them with their drawings. Included are the Arctic tern, Canada goose, eider duck, grey owl, herring gull, loon, mallard duck, peregrine falcon, puffin, raven, rock ptarmigan,
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Printmaking with Craft Foam: Bundle of 7 Art Lessons for Grades 3-7
Native American Regions Mini-Unit: Desert Southwest
Each Native American Region is unique and should be taught separately. The Desert Southwest Region is fascinating for students!My Native American regional units are focused on pre-contact cultures but the descendants of many of the tribes we study continue to practice their cultural traditions today.Contents of this mini-unit:Teacher NotesDesert Southwest Region MapPassage 1: Overview of the Desert Southwest Region, Clothing, and Trade - Includes a cloze passage to help students process the info
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Social Studies Big Bundle
Native American Tribes Research Report Project Native American Heritage Month
This classroom project makes it easy and engaging to teach about major Native American tribes! Perfect for Native American Heritage Month or any time of the year, this no-prep research project contains worksheets in both color and black and white. It can be used as a standalone resource or as a great compliment to other Native American related lessons and units. This project is designed to honor Native Americans and indigenous communities in a culturally respectful way. Students will research no
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Native American Heritage Month Resource Mega Value Bundle | 50% off
Native People of North America Unit with Informational Text & Lapbook
Learn about the people of the Native American regions and the ancient first people in North America in this unit that includes a 10-page nonfiction text, reading questions, a lapbook or interactive notebook pieces, and a unit test. This complex text will provide your students with information about Beringia, the land bridge, ancient civilizations including the Aztecs, the Cliff Dwellers, and the Mound Builders, and Native American culture regions of the United States including the Arctic and Sub
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Native People of North America Unit & Lapbook Print and Digital Bundle
Canada's First Nations Research Project - PBL
If you would like to purchase the 100% EDITABLE version of this product, click here! Great for differentiation!According to most archaeologists, approximately 30,000 years ago, the first people arrived to what is now known as Canada. They travelled from Asia, possibly over a land bridge from modern day Russia to Alaska. After their arrival, a vast variety of peoples, societies, and cultures flourished for millennia. With over 630 recognized groups within Canada, and over 60 distinct languages sp
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5th - 10th
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Native American Art Project: Birch Trees and Symbolism
This Native American project is always a highly successful!! The results are beautiful and inclusive! Learn about an Ojibwe story that explains the meaning behind the unique marks found on the bark of Birch trees. Lesson includes: link to the Ojibwa legendphotographs of Birch Treesan art plannerstep-by-step procedurea rubric/art reflection hand outa woodland pattern sheetlist of Art Common Core Standards. This lesson can be modified and used with various grade levels. (** omit the tape tearing
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4th - 8th
Native Americans | Native American Research Report
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive, 30 page resource to help your students produce a research report on Native Americans. This report resource contains worksheets, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ research report.This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions (Common Core Ess
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Native Americans Unit | Passages & Questions | Research Report Bundle
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