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- 3rd - 5th
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Students acquire information through the use of primary sources concerning how work is divided in the Colorado Indian tribes. They discover that Colorado Indian students learn through play and imitation of adult activities. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate primary and secondary sources to discover how Colorado Indian students learned the information and skills that they needed in life. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a picture book showing how the horse changed the lives of the Colorado Indians. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate primary and secondary sources to explore Indian dances and rituals, and write a narrative or expository essay regarding the attributes of an Indian dance. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students determine the various ceremonies of the Colorado Indians. They research the Bear Dance and teach it to the class, while others research the music including the instruments and incorporate it into the dance. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the Indian groups and landscape of the Yellowstone Plateau. They read and discuss background information, and in small groups research and write a report about Indian groups living in Yellowstone in the early 1800s. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students create a KWL chart on Native Americans and listen to a speaker from a local Indian Reservation. As a class, they are read part of a Native American story in which they pick their own Native American name and identify their own special talent. In groups, they discuss the importance of the horse to the Native American community and what their clothes symbolize. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students explore Indian ragas and learn the differences between an Indian raga and the Western scale. They sing the familiar song "America," first in the Western major scale and then in two Indian ragas (bhairavi and purvi) on a neutral syllable, in order to identify differences in whole- and half-step patterns between an Indian raga and the Western scale. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students, after exploring several secondary historical sources, compare/contrast their local history of the Brush Lake area, by viewing their own individual local histories. They assess contemporary cultures of the white homesteaders and businessmen now living on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. In addition, the create drawings, pictures with text to produce a poster portraying their findings. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students research the seven indian reservations found in Montana. The lesson includes guiding questions for students to conduct research. In the assessment of knowledge students must name the seven reservations and define why each had its own government. Full Review »
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