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152 resources with the concept native american tribes

Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian Interactive

Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian

3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Take on the roles of two very different individuals living together during the same time: a pilgrim and a member from the Wampanoag Tribe. As learners navigate through the interactive, each click takes them to a part of each village to...
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The Pilgrims: Alliance with Massasoit’s People and the First Thanksgiving Video

The Pilgrims: Alliance with Massasoit’s People and the First Thanksgiving

5 mins 2nd - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Is the story of the First Thanksgiving actually all it's said to have been? Watch a video that sheds light on the event, who Samoset and Massasoit were, and what the First Thanksgiving was really all about.
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Once Upon a Time (Saxipak’a): Lesson Plan 4 Lesson Plan

Once Upon a Time (Saxipak’a): Lesson Plan 4

6th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
How did the environment and natural resources found on the Channel islands influence the culture of the Chumash? Archaeology meets technology in an activity designed for middle schoolers. After viewing West of The West's documentary Once...
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Once Upon a Time (Sa Hi Pa Ca): Lesson Plan 3 Lesson Plan

Once Upon a Time (Sa Hi Pa Ca): Lesson Plan 3

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
What was the most significant tool used by the Chumash? How did the environment make the tool possible? What group behaviors allowed the Chumash be be successful for thousands of years? After watching West of the West's documentary Once...
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Sa Hi Pa Ca (Once Upon a Time): Lesson Plan 2 Lesson Plan

Sa Hi Pa Ca (Once Upon a Time): Lesson Plan 2

4th
CCSS: Designed
What tools do archaeologists and anthropologist use to learned about what life was like in the past. After watching West of The West's documentary Once Upon a Time that details how scientists use artifacts to establish a history of the...
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Once Upon A Time (Saxipak’a): Lesson Plan 1 Lesson Plan

Once Upon A Time (Saxipak’a): Lesson Plan 1

6th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
As part of a study of the history of the Chumash on California's Channel Island chain, class members view the documentary Once Upon a Time, respond to discussion questions, and create a timeline for the different waves of migration.
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island Video
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island

18 mins 4th - 12th
The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island documents the story of Juana Maria (the name given her by the padres of the Santa Barbara mission) who spent 18 years alone on the most remote island of the Channel Islands chain.
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 2 Lesson Plan
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 2

7th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
After watching West of the West's documentary The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, class members imagine how Juana Maria/Karana may have felt about living alone on the island for 18 years and craft a blackout poem or a narrative in her...
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The Legendary King Lesson Plan

The Legendary King

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
After viewing two documentaries about the history of the Channel islands, individuals craft an essay in which they compare the lives of Juana Maria, the Lone Woman San Nicolar Island, to Lester Holt and his family featured in the...
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Cache: Lesson Plan 3 - Grades 4-5 Lesson Plan

Cache: Lesson Plan 3 - Grades 4-5

4th - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Should the excavation of what is believed to be the cave of the Lone Woman of San Nicholas Island be allowed to continue? As a practice exercise designed to prepare pupils for a timed writing exam, individuals read two Los Angeles Times...
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Cache: Lesson Plan 2 - Grades 4-6 Lesson Plan

Cache: Lesson Plan 2 - Grades 4-6

4th - 6th
CCSS: Designed
Class members will dig this activity that has them trying their hand at recovering artifacts. Groups are assigned a section of a sandbox, carefully uncover the artifacts in their section, and then develop theories about who might have...
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Cache: Lesson Plan 1 - Grades 9-12 Lesson Plan

Cache: Lesson Plan 1 - Grades 9-12

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Archaeologists have discovered a cache of Native American relics. They want to preserve these relics by removing them from the rapidly eroding site to a lab where they can be studied. Native American traditions demand that the items be...
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Cache Video

Cache

10 mins 4th - 12th
The excavation of a cache of artifacts found on San Nicolas Island, a part of the Channel Island chain, is the focus of a documentary that shows how archaeologists uncover artifacts and use these finds to attempt to understand the past....
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Dark Water: Lesson Plan 2 - Grade 3 Lesson Plan

Dark Water: Lesson Plan 2 - Grade 3

3rd
A discussion of bioluminescence launches an investigation of animal adaptations. After re-watching the opening minutes of Dark Water, class members listen to a reading of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This, and then create a new animal...
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Dark Water: Lesson Plan 1 - Grades 3-4 Lesson Plan

Dark Water: Lesson Plan 1 - Grades 3-4

3rd - 4th
CCSS: Designed
As part of their study of the history of the Channel Islands, class members craft an informational article to post on a bulletin board that features the Chumash ancestral tradition of tomol paddling.
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Dark Water Video

Dark Water

10 mins 4th - 12th
Dark Water, a documentary about a traditional Chumash ceremony, launches a series of lessons about this tribal nation that inhabited the Channel Islands. The focus of the film is on the recreation of the Tomol Crossing Ceremony where...
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Telling Your Own Story Lesson Plan

Telling Your Own Story

4th - 6th
CCSS: Designed
After watching and discussing a video on the Voyage of Cabrillo, individuals craft their own origin story and design and build an artifact they feel best represents their history.
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Five W’s and One H Activity for Events and People of the Indian Removal Worksheet

Five W’s and One H Activity for Events and People of the Indian Removal

8th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
What did Andrew Jackson have to do with the Indian Removal Act? Learn more about a pivotal moment in American history with a jigsaw activity. Learners from each group choose different historical figures and/or events to research, then...
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Resiliency Among the Salmon People Lesson Plan

Resiliency Among the Salmon People

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Is losing cultural traditions the cost of social progress, or should people make stronger efforts to preserve these traditions? High schoolers watch a short film about the native Yup'ik people in Alaska and how they handle the shifts in...
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Hopewell Geometry Assessment

Hopewell Geometry

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
The Hopewell people of the central Ohio Valley used right triangles in the construction of earthworks. Pupils use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine missing dimensions of right triangles used by the Hopewell people. The assessment task...
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Idea Book – For Creating Lessons and Units About American Indians Unit

Idea Book – For Creating Lessons and Units About American Indians

2nd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Augment a unit on the traditions and legacies of Native Americans with an informational packet. With pages that detail the tribal origins of commonly used words, a list of ways that Native American customs influenced American democracy,...
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Thanksgiving 1—Pilgrims and American Indians Lesson Plan

Thanksgiving 1—Pilgrims and American Indians

3rd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
The Pilgrims first arrived in America in order to gain religious freedom. Here is a lesson that takes the class on this journey with the Pilgrims, stopping to look at how they got here, who they met when they arrived, and a peek into...
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Native American Culture and Traditions
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Native American Culture and Traditions

6th - 8th
The history of the native tribes of North America is rich, powerful, and vital to understanding the history of our country. Take a look at these project ideas and lesson plans for teaching middle schoolers about Native American culture and traditions.
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Geography and Early Peoples of the Western Hemisphere Unit

Geography and Early Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

5th - 7th
CCSS: Adaptable
Young historians discover the early people of the western hemisphere. The unit explores how the land changed, how it was used and homes of early Americans such as Incas, Mayans, Inuits, Aztecs, and Pueblos. Individuals also examine these...
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