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Mural of a Piscataway Village

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Fourth graders work in groups to make a large reproduction on bulletin board paper and/or cardboard of one aspect of the Piscataways' life (i.e., housing, clothing, animals they hunted, crops they grew, women's work, men's work, children, and government).

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4th
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Social Studies & History
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5 days
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