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Higher education Native Americans projects
Native American Heritage Month One Pager Project — Indigenous Peoples Research
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by having your students research influential Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples that have made an impact on history! Students will share their work by creating a beautiful One Pager which will showcase their research through art, creativity, and writing! Honor Native Americans by studying their culture, leaders, and history with a unique one-pager project!Completed projects make colorful, beautiful classroom displays... they're also great for bulleti
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Minnesota History Bundle - PowerPoints, Projects, and Readings
This bundle includes all of my course syllabus, PowerPoints, note outlines that go with the PowerPoints, discussion questions for Brenda Child's "My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks," and questions from Risjord's "A Popular History of Minnesota." The items were created for a high school CITS (College in the Schools) course but the presentations could be modified to meet a 6th grade classroom's need. PowerPoint Presentations: Ojibwe HistoryDakota HistoryMinnesota's Very Early HistoryOjibwe and Dako
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Native American Assimilation Boarding Schools: Source-Based Activities/Project
The three-part lesson package will engage students as they will gain a deep understanding of the Native American perspective of forced assimilation after the Civil War. Students will come out of this lesson fully grasping the dark legacy U.S. Government assimilation policies. Furthermore, students will sharpen their source-analysis abilities and document-based question writing abilities through a Google Doc-guided research project. Part 1: Background/Context: Students learn about the change in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Leaf Collection Project -Native American Knowledge of Indigenous Plants
Background: Indigenous people have been using medicine harvested from various parts of plants since time immemorial. Aspirin, for example, is made from refined salicin. Salicin is found in nature in high abundance in willow bark, a medicine Native Americans traditionally chewed or brewed into teas for aches and pains. One would be hard-pressed to find an endemic plant in the United States that did not have some medicinal or cultural value to Indigenous people.Objective: By completing this projec
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
NGSS:
HS-LS2-5
, HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-LS4-3
Native American Literature Tribal Research Project - Distance Learning
PRINT + DIGITAL!In this engaging project, students will have the option of working in small groups, partners, or individually to research a Native American tribe of their choosing. A list of 10 of the most populated tribes according to the Census is included. After researching 8/11 provided in-depth research topics, students will create a presentation with several innovative mediums such as recording a podcast episode, using Google Slides, EdPuzzle, Flipgrid, designing an Educational blog or web
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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MMIWG2S Inquiry Based Project Lessons for Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Reconciliation Resources Through InquiryThis 18 day Inquiry Unit follows the BCTLA’s Points of Inquiry which is based on Barbara Stripling's Inquiry Process. There are five aspects to this inquiry:Connect-and-Wonder, Investigate, Construct, Express, and Reflect (at all stages).Experience with Inquiry projects is not necessary for this unit! Everyone will have success!With the examination of videos, articles, and the picture book, If I Go Missing, written by Brianna Jonnie,
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Autopsy: The New World, Part I
The students will be looking into a specific New World Colony and will be researching major themes provided. The students will be depicting this through an autopsy project where the students will be drawing a person him/herself or someone from that time period with the themes surrounding the person. Students have autonomy on who they want to draw as long as it adds to the project. This assignment is created to be fun, creative, and most importantly… informative. The students will be looking int
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Autopsy: The New World
Winter Count Project
The Oceti Sakowin (Lakota, Dakota, Nakota people) traditionally kept track of important historical data through the creation and upkeep of a Winter Count (Waniyetu Wowapi) This unit was created for my high-school class called "Measuring the Earth" which focuses on how Native Americans used geometry, geology, and mathematics to make sense of their world. Before we can discuss the different significant contributions Native Americans made to their surroundings, it is important that we discuss how t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mystery Grid Three-Pack 09 Native American
A selection of three Mystery-Grid worksheets in a bundle for extra value. This set features imagery of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, an Osage shield, and a buffalo. Download the preview for a free sample of one of my Mystery Grid Drawing products. Click here to watch a mystery grid drawing demo.Students will surprise themselves when they draw the simple squares while reassembling them to complete an impressive drawing. The grid drawing technique was used historically by the likes of Leonardo Da
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Native American Moccasins Art Lesson (common core) Social Studies
This Native American lesson is AWESOME!!!! Students create their very own moccasin and pattern based off their own foot. Perfect for older students or gifted and talented art students. Step-by-step instructions on how to create these moccasins with colored illustrations and photographs.
Art
Native American culture
Moccasins
Sewing
Fiber Art
Functional
Elements of Art
Principles of Art
Another art lesson from my book "The Creative Classroom" - check out my other art lessons, too. Here's my stor
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Bundle - US History Unit 1: "The Real Democracy Experiment" Engaging Resources
This bundle for my U.S. History Unit 1: "The Real Democracy Experiment" contains enough resources to last almost an entire quarter. The unit overview gives a general idea of my thinking as I planned this unit (and implemented the activities), and each of the assignment and PowerPoints have been thoroughly tested with many, many students.Student engagement is the one thing that keeps me going, and the PowerPoints in this bundle contain a lot of embedded discussion questions or activities. Below i
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11th, Higher Education
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U.S. History Unit 1: Native American Boarding Schools Project
This file is a project titled: Native American Boarding Schools, and no PowerPoint lecture attached to it. This can be given at the beginning of the unit on Native Americans and students asked to investigate a particular question before learning the background. Alternatively, this can be given as a summative assessment at the end of the unit.
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11th, Higher Education
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Native American Tribe Project Rubrics
Help guide student in creating a research project on American Indians/Native Americans. I use this for powerpoint, keynote, and written options. There is a diorama rubric, presentation rubric, and CCSS lists for 4th and 5th grade.
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4th - 5th, Higher Education
Trail of Tears
In this activity, you will read three accounts of the Cherokee journey west of the Mississippi River. You will be the historian and determine what the journey was like.
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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Free Speech & Responsibilities Unit Study
This unit on Free Speech & Responsibilities is systematically designed to cover situations on tribal lands, but is also suitable for non-tribal situations. It ties together Civil Rights, the linguistic history of the Welsh, the US Bill of Rights, what tribal constitutions look like, and free speech in Occupied France during World War II. Also included are suggestions for physical or virtual field trips, videos that deal with free speech, robustly resourced websites, and suggestions for a pr
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Federal Lands and Removal of Indigenous People - Inquiry Based Activity
Small project that can be used in a US history class or Environmental Science course so students explore indigenous peoples and the history of their removal from public lands. One - two class periods to research and prepare, and one for the students to present their findings.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-LS2-7
, HS-LS2-6
Native American Folktale Adaptations
Students will create a multimedia presentation that adapts a Native American folktale to a story that a younger audience can understand (ELI5 means Explain Like I'm 5). This slideshow contains examples, standards, a description of the assignment, and directions for using the Screencastify extension.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay (Native American Rhetorics focus)
Components: Rhetorical analysis, writing, research
This is a college-level, major assignment in Introduction to Contemporary Indigenous Rhetorics. This project asks students to write a rhetorical analysis using the theories and writers studied in class. Assignment includes a suggested readings list, suggestions and specific guidance for crafting this essay, and also encourages deep engagement with a Native American rhetorical theory. Classroom tested for one year at a U.S. institution of hig
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Introduction to Prehispanic Cultures
Introduction and project of the Prehispanic Cultures in Mexico.Introducción y proyecto de las culturas prehispánicas en México.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Native American Culture Project
School project for students learning about Native American culture. Great was to have a hands on activity the students will love!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FRAMED NATIVE ART - Art MacKay
Framed Native Art Art MacKay A sampling of framed images in my collection. Message me for more information
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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