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Native Americans Lesson Plan

Native Americans

7th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewIntroduce middle schoolers to the First Nations that inhabited the Northeast during the Age of Exploration with a series of activities designed for differentiated groups.
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The Iroquois Lesson Plan

The Iroquois

4th - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewDuring the early 1500s, parts of modern-day New York were inhabited by Eastern Woodland Native Americans. To learn about the daily life, value, and traditions of these tribes, fourth graders research the Iroquois.  Groups select projects...
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I am Indopino: Or, How to Answer the Question, "Who Are You?" Lesson Plan

I am Indopino: Or, How to Answer the Question, "Who Are You?"

6th - 12th
In our increasingly multi-ethnic society, many students find it difficult to identify themselves as belonging to any one ethnicity. Gene Tagaban, a Tlingit, Cherokee, Filipino offers his personal experiences with these questions in his...
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The Hopi Origin Story Video

The Hopi Origin Story

4 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Help learners connect with the idea of being centered as they explore the Hopi origin story. The Hopi people believe their Creator called them up out of the earth and told them to journey until they found a center space they could call...
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The Haudenosaunee Legendary Founding Video

The Haudenosaunee Legendary Founding

6 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
While many young historians would say the United States' form of democracy is the longest living, the confederacy established by Hiawatha and the Haudenosaunee is America's precursor. The activity set, complete with a beautifully...
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A Gift of Corn to the Choctaw Video

A Gift of Corn to the Choctaw

1 min 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
A mysterious woman. A humble sharing of a meal. A generous gift. The universal value of generosity is threaded throughout a core Choctaw legend on why the tribe began to grow corn. Using part of the Native American Sacred Stories series,...
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A Story of Survival: The Wampanoag and the English Unit

A Story of Survival: The Wampanoag and the English

Pre-K - 4th
CCSS: Adaptable
Redesign your holiday celebrations with the aid of a lesson plan booklet packed with facts, images, maps, activities, and readings about the three-day feast that marked the English settlers' first successful harvest.
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The Pilgrims: Native American Relationship to the Land Video

The Pilgrims: Native American Relationship to the Land

1 min 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
An informative video sets the context for a lesson that asks young historians to consider how cultural values influence perspective. Groups compare the attitudes reflected in a journal entry of a member of the Plymouth Colony to those of...
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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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The Lone Woman and San Nicholas Island
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The Lone Woman and San Nicholas Island

3rd - 5th
Explore the fascinating archaeology of San Nicholas Island in the Channel Islands of the California coast. You'll find a video on the story of the "Lone Woman", activities for learners to imagine what it would have been like to be alone on an island, and consider the ethics involved in archaeological digs and excavation.
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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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Once Upon A Time Video

Once Upon A Time

12 mins 4th - 12th
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, a Chumash Elder, narrates a documentary of the history of the Chumash people on Santa Cruz Island.
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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 3 Lesson Plan
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 3

4th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Should researchers be able to excavate, examine, and remove Native American artifacts from historic sites? Should companies be permitted to build on sacred Native American land? After watching West of the West's documentary, The Lone...
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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 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 3 - Grades 6-12 Lesson Plan

Dark Water: Lesson Plan 3 - Grades 6-12

6th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
After watching the documentary Dark Water about a traditional Chumash ceremony and reading a Chumash origin story, viewers are asked to create a coat of arms and to craft an essay that details a family tradition or their own origin story.
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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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