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Ancient & Native Americans Resource Bundle!

This bundled product contains the following 7 StudentSavvy resources!

• Interactive Notebook
• Reading Passages
• Interactive PowerPoint
• PBL Activities
• STEM Challenges
• Google Classroom Student Projects
• Assessments / Exam / Test

More information on each resource:

Interactive Notebook

This product contains interactive cut-and-paste learning material for students to create an organized social study interactive notebook.

Topics covered in this unit include Ancient Americans (Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers, Aztec, and Inca) Southwest Native Americans Hopi & Navajo, Great Plains – Comanche, Pawnee, Omaha – Northwest Native Americans Tlingit – Eastern Woodlands Natchez, Haudenosaunee Vocabulary: agriculture, clan, irrigation, nomads, pueblos, civilizations, migration, kivas, mesas, staple, travois, longhouse, wampum, adobe, wigwams, Iroquois confederacy, dugouts and more!

Reading Passages

Quick overview of topics covered in this resource include:

1.) First Americans: The Paleo-Indians

-15,000-7,000BC

-where they lived (evidence in Alaska- eventually all over the Americas) , how they survived (hunting animals, fishing, and gathering plants. Farmed in order to grow crops such as corn, beans, squash)

-early agriculture – no longer a nomadic lifestyle

-overview of factors that allowed them to create a civilization (agriculture, hunting/gathering, no longer nomadic, growing population)

Keywords: agriculture, nomad, civilizations, migration

2.) The Southwest Native Americans

-Overview of Southwest Native American Tribes (Hopi and Navajo)

The Hopi – where they lived, style homes, pueblos

-overview of “dry farming”

The Navajo – “great planted field”, lived in hogans (dome-shaped homes)

-relatives of the Apache Indians

-similar farming methods of Hopi

-what the Navajo learned from the Hopi

-differences of Navajo and Hopi

Keywords: dry farming, Apache, Navajo, Hopi, hogans, pueblos, adobe

3.) The Great Plains

-Overview of landscape (prairies) and Native American Tribes (The Comanche, The Pawnee and Omaha)

-Overview of Comanche in the Western Plains

-warrior tribe, skilled at hunting and horse riding, nomadic lifestyle

-Overview of Pawnee and Omaha in Eastern Plains

(more rainfall, more farming, earth lodges)

-Similarities and differences between Eastern and Western plains

Keywords: earth lodges, prairie, nomad

4.) The Northwest Native Americans

-Overview of Northwest locations and various tribes (Tlingit, Chinook, Tillamook)

-known for totem poles, showcases generations

-Description of the Tlingit groups, located in Sitka Alaska.

-hunted and fished in the sea, traded salmon

-woodworkers, created totem poles, large canoes called dugouts

-used cedar bark to make clothing

-overview of other natural resources used by the Tlingit community

-description of potlatch feasts and celebrations

Keywords: potlatch feasts, Tlingit, totem poles, dugout, cedar,

5.) The Eastern Woodlands Tribes

-Locations of the Eastern Woodlands, description of the environment

-Description of the Natchez tribes (descendants of the Mound Builders

-brief overview of Mound Builders

-description of wigwam homes

-Description of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois

-longhouse and wampum

-clans

Keywords: Mound Builders, wigwams, wampum, longhouse, clans)

Interactive PowerPoint

This teaching resource is quite the virtual experience! This US History PowerPoint can be used as a powerful classroom presentation or students can click their way through it on individual computers.

***This product was created with PowerPoint (2016). The effects and transitions may not display properly on older versions.

PBL Activities

Ancient Americans PBL (Project Based Learning) Activities | The Cliff Dwellers Civilization

A cross-curricular challenge for students who are studying US History and Native Americans!

Welcome to the Cliff Dwellers Civilization!

Students travel back in time to 500AD to conduct research and engage in activities all about the Cliff Dwellers.

Students will create their very own PBL booklet. PBL activities utilize creative learning and real-world problem-solving strategies!

Students use mapping skills as well as knowledge of simple machines to build tools!

Sample pages (answer key) are included in the file.

STEM Challenge

A cross-curricular challenge for students who are studying US History and Native Americans!

This resource has science, technology, engineering, and, math activities to do with your upper elementary kids that will really enhance their learning!

The STEM Challenge in this resource has detailed directions, photo examples, a list of materials needed, a prediction section, a brainstorming section, trials 1, 2, & 3, a final results section with drawings, and a reflection section.

Iroquois Wampum Coding

The STEM Challenge: While using string and beads, students must create a coded message. Each bead represents a letter of the alphabet or a space in between words. STEM groups must decide what colors they will use for each letter in their message.. Other STEM groups will try to decipher their code (more instructions included in the resource)

Google Classroom Student Projects

This product contains 3 digital projects that students can complete using Google Slides! This resource has a brochure project, a timeline project, and an info-graphic / poster project.

Each student-centered project has a sample project, answer key, and detailed project instructions for the students.

Assessment/Exam

This product contains an assessment that has vocabulary matching, fill in the blank, short answer, essay, and an info-graphic! It has 19 questions total.

It also contains an ANSWER KEY and an EDITABLE PowerPoint file

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