The First Americans: Learning About American Indian Heritage

1. The teacher will start out by telling the students they are going to learn about American Indians. 

2. The teacher will display parts of the standard (geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems).

3. The teacher will ask for volunteer readers of the article on the Pueblo tribe. 

4. Students will look for the parts of the standard in the Pueblo article.

5. The teacher will tell students that they will research an additional tribe and work in groups with others to create a slideshow.

6. The teacher will provide a list of the elements of a tribe (geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems). The teacher will explain that for some articles not all of the information will be listed, and some articles will have additional information.

7. Students choose from Cherokee, Tlingit-Haida, Abenaki, Chickasaw, and other American Indian tribes under Gale in Context: Elementary, Social Studies, and Native American Tribes.

8. The teacher will assign each student one element of the tribe listed in the standard; one student can be assigned to look for additional information in the article that is not one of the elements listed in the standard.

9. The students will navigate to the Gale in Context Elementary, Social Studies, American Indian Tribes. After the student reaches the main page for the tribe, they should click "Keep Reading" to access the full article.

10. Students will create a slideshow on a shared document in groups. They may choose to use the following template:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-OqWcZdLYDPjJtLhHLWtuqsYfqFNcLi5zPdr6TYjRYg/edit?usp=sharing