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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students research the five tribes of the Iroquois Nation focusing on housing, food, clothing, transportation, religion, and language. They research using Internet sources and book mark sites for reuse. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students explore the life, culture, and influences of the Native Americans through a variety of stories and activities. Models of housing, the location of the tribe, their culture and the daily activities of their lives are investigated in this ten lesso Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students study the novel The Indian in the Cupboard. They create an alphabet book on the novel using the Microsoft Power Point program. Assessment rubric is included in lesson plan. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore the culture of Native Americans. They read a novel, write word webs, take spelling tests, and prepare a speech. Students compare and contrast the Iroquois Constitution to the United States Constitution. They visit museums to explore Native American Art. Students create their own Native American artwork. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students will be able to read a chapter of Indian in the Cupboard and pick out excerpts that contain incorrect grammar and punctuation. They will be able to write the excerpts the way they are in the book and then make them more complete on their paper. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students brainstorm what they know about Native Americans, watch movie The Indian in the Cupboard, discuss Indian American housing and clothing, illustrate village scene with teepees, and construct teepee models using art posters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students practice making mental images as they read silently in order to increase their reading comprehension. They listen to a teacher read aloud of a stanza from a poem while practicing visualization which they share with classmates. Next, they practice independently with both a poem and the first chapter Lynne Reid Banks', The Indian in the Cupboard. As an assessment, they read another chapter of the book and draw an image that represents their visualization. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students practice summarization by creating a story map. Students listen to a read aloud by the teacher, after which the class creates a storymap of the major events in the story. They read a passage from the Indian in the Cupboard and create their own individual story map. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students are introduced to the following characteristics of a news story: presents infromation with description and fact, explains how something works, shows how to do something, and communicates specific procedures or steps. They compare and contrast sets of written directions with text or video examples of procedural stories such as a cooking segment from a local newspaper. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students identify stereotypes of Indian people based on perceived characteristics. They discuss the miscnceptions. Students define quality of information and give an example from the story "Seaman's Journal: On The Trail With Lewis and Clark." They define what is meant by "author values" as these are shown in the story. Full Review »
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