Extensive lesson plans for learners to become familiar with the traditions and customs of different Native American groups and compare them to each other. There are links included in more information needed in the lessons.

This lesson plan helps students learn aspects of three Native American languages, the Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee. Five lessons lead teachers and students through traditions, similarities and differences, and the importance of...

In this lesson plan, your learners can read Native American poetry, then create their own unique sand paintings. Provides links to handouts and information as well assessment criteria, and extension ideas.

During this lesson plan, young scholars will recognize that Native Americans were the first inhabitants of our country. They will locate on a map where different tribes lived and compare and contrast different tribes' basic needs and...

Text and historically significant documents pertaining to the young US government's policies toward Native Americans.

Primary sources help students understand issues and controversies surrounding the American Indian Reservations of the 1870s. Historians provide different accounts and views of this facet of American history, and students utilize these...

George Catlin made extensive observations on the various native peoples that he encountered on his travels in the West. He recorded his experiences in letters and notes. These documents provide us with critical information on the culture...

Contains a lesson plan that looks at the relationship between the Corps of Discovery and the Dakota Nation. Includes hyperlinks for supplementary information, links to national standards, and teaching strategies. From PBS.

Students will analyze primary sources with an eye for cause-and-effect relationships.They will identify the roles of government policy and technological improvements in the settlement of the West, and explain their impact on Native...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Structured Academic Controversy (SAC), learners read four documents that give different accounts of how Lewis and Clark treated the Native Americans they met on their expedition. Students are...

Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students analyze original documents to evaluate the conflict between colonists under King Philip and Native Americans.

Site provides an extensive lesson plan that challenges students to compare early American houses to present day houses. Very comprehensive site with several activities that will assist students in understanding common features of houses....

Using this history lab, students will examine the impact immigration had on urbanization and the reform movements of the time, as well as the addressing the backlash to immigration by understanding nativism.

A activity unit designed to outline the civil rights movement as seen through the eyes of African Americans, Chicanos, and Native Americans.

How did Edith Turner, Chief of the Nottoway, navigate nineteenth-century Nottoway and Anglo-American societies while keeping the tribe's children on the reservation? This lesson looks at her life and her strong stance to maintain the...

This fibers project goes cross-curricular to focus on Native American coil baskets. Techniques could be challenging. However, when completed, your students will feel so rewarded with a beautiful handmade craft.

A simple, but dynamic introductory weaving lesson that focuses on the art of the Navaho Native Americans. The lesson is well thought-out and includes references to children's literature to read as an introduction.

In this lesson plan, students explore the tradition of Pueblo "Listening dolls" and create their own version of this historical tradition. Also contains a rubric, extensions, and books to use as references.

From the Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute, comprehensive history of tobacco, the tobacco industry, and tobacco-related illnesses.

Learn about the of indigenous people of America.

This companion article from the PBS series, "New Perspectives on the West," offers a lesson plan which approaches the Dawes Act from the perspective of the Nez Perce.

Go directly to the classroom resources developed in conjunction with the four-part PBS documentary "Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery." Find 17 lesson plans and activities that comprise a multidisciplinary unit on...

Lewis and Clark traveled for two years and covered 4,000 miles to reach the Pacific Ocean. They had the help of a young Native American girl, Sacagawea, who carried with her a small baby! Students will learn about the Lewis and Clark...