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Native American Music and the Flute

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the role of the flute in Native American music while determining what an exemplary example of flute music sounds like. They develop a method of assessing a Native American flute performance. They perform a Native American...
Interactive
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Native American Alphabetical Order Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this online interactive Native American worksheet, students examine 16 Native American words and then write them in alphabetical order on the lines provided. This worksheet may also be printed for classroom use.
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Native American Music: Call-and-Response

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students are introduced to call-and-response form of Native American song and dance. They identify and describe a call-and-response form as used in "0 Hal'Lwe." Male students will perform "0 Hal'Lwe" in call-and-response style with drum...
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Native Americans of Rockland County

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students comprehend Native American cultures through the use of both secondary and primary sources. They explore and investigate Native Americans in New York State. Students are shown some old Indian arrowheads and they are challenged...
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Describing Drum Beats in Native American Music

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze the drum patterns and changing styles of the music and dance for the Native American song and dance "Owl Dance." They listen to a recording of "Owl Dance," discuss the cultural context of the song, and perform the song.
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Using Supporting Evidence to Interpret Meaning-A Native American Folktale

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read Native American folktales.  In this multicultural literature instructional activity, students research the style of writing used in Native American folktales.  They view a video of a folktale, and discuss the...
Worksheet
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Native American Tribes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this social studies worksheet, students find the words that are used to focus upon the Native American tribes and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Native American Tribes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this social studies worksheet, students find the words that are naming different Native American tribes and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Texas Regions and Native Americans of Texas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research to find the regions of Texas.  In this technology lesson, 4th graders create a Kid Pix project showing the location of various regions of Texas.  Students show where in those regions Native American...
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Native American Glossary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students develop a glossary of English language words with Native American origins. They discuss a list of words, look up the words in a dictionary, and compile the definitions in alphabetical order in a class glossary.
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Alaska's Native Population: Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the unique population of Alaska. In this Native people of Alaska lesson plan, students discover the three groups of people who live in Alaska. Students describe the similiarities and differences between the three groups....
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The Return of the Native Study Questions

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this online interactive literature worksheet, learners respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native. Students may check some of their answers online.
Worksheet
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Native American Homes

For Students 3rd - 4th
A wonderful worksheet on dwellings of Native Americans awaits your students. In this reading comprehension and American history worksheet, students answer questions about the dwellings, create pictures of them, and complete a matching...
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What Do We Learn From the Repartiation of Alaska Native Artifacts?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe and evaluate evidence of Alaska Native cultural symbols and artifacts. They research historical data from a variety of primary resources, including the Harriman expedition journals, related web sites, oral accounts,...
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Examples of Sharing as Told Through a Native American Legend

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore community problem solving. In this cross-curriculum literature and social studies lesson plan, students listen to The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie DePaola and discuss how a Native American community problem...
Study Guide
Spark Notes

Native Son by Richard Wright: Study Guide - Mini Essays

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Richard Wright's Native Son. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Native Son Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, learners respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Richard Wright's Native Son. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

American Indians and their Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
People could take a page in ingenuity and survival from the Powhatans. Deer skins became clothes, and the members of the Native American group farmed the rich Virginia soil and hunted in its forests for food. Using images of artifacts...
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K12 Reader

What is a Tribal Government?

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What is life like on a Native American reservation? Learn about the ways a tribal government works with a reading comprehension activity. After reading a short passage, kids use context clues to answer five comprehension questions.
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Global Oneness Project

Resiliency Among the Salmon People

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
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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Working Together to Live Together

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Whose home is it anyway? Design teams plan a housing development in which they must also protect a native species. The teams consist of a project manager, civil engineer, environmental engineer, and graphic designer. Teams present their...
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National Museum of the American Indian

The Kwakwaka'Wakw: A Study of a North Pacific Coast People and the Potlatch

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Discover the cultural practices and unique value systems of a group of native peoples from Canada called the Kwakwaka'wakw. Your young historians will discuss how conceptions of wealth can vary and how these native...
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Storytelling and Folklore

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Stories are passed down orally in many cultures. Learn about the ways that storytelling can shape a society with a reading passage about Native American folklore and myths. After they finish reading, kids complete five reading...
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Brown University

Youth Activism and the Dakota Access Pipeline

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Do young people have a role in social movements? Should they? The involvement of young people in the Dakota Access Pipeline is the focus of a resource that asks class members to examine letters written by native youths who oppose the...

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