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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.
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- 5th Grade
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.
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- 2nd Grade
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
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
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.
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- 3rd - 4th Grade
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.
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- 5th Grade
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.
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- 6th Grade
Students make connections between reading and writing. In this language arts lesson, students explore literary elements as they examine a number of texts and practice implementing figurative language into their writing.
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- 3rd - 4th Grade
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.
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- 5th Grade
Students make and interpret scale drawings. In this scale drawing lesson, students investigate how scale is used in movies such as "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and when making maps. They make a movie prop using a scale drawing. They use actions figures as they work in groups to draw the movie scene.
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- Kindergarten - 12th Grade
Students explore how New World explorers helped change the Old World's diet. The many foods that were unknown to the New World were also brought to the Americas by the explorers.
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