Why not bring STEM to your Native American Unit in social studies? Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable about themes, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific themes, like Native Americans, specifically relating to their homes! This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solutions will work! You could also rotate these challenges through a science center. I plan to complete these as a whole class activity, one per week during the fall when we study Native American regions. I store everything in a dollar store gift bag or plastic tub! These activities are great to use any time of the school year. You can use all of them or just pick and choose! Most materials are pretty easy to find and are low in cost! There are information sheets on each type of home and nine challenges included in this pack: Build a Wigwam Challenge Build a Longhouse Challenge Build a Tipi Challenge Build a Pueblo Challenge Build a Hogan Challenge Build a Plank House Challenge Build a Chickee Challenge Build an Igloo Challenge NEWLY ADDED: Build a Wickiup These STEM engineering and design challenges will help your students show off their building and teamwork skills! Happy engineering!
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With Thanksgiving coming up, it is a great time to do a unit study about Native Americans! These resources and FREE printable, help you to study any Native American tribe. Maybe start with the Wampanoag tribe who attended the first Thanksgiving. Do you need a USA Geography Unit Study? Do you need a Personal Finance […]
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On special request, this Native American Unit Study is for the more advance readers or approximately grades 4-6. I hope you and your children find this Unit Study to be useful and enjoyable. As always please screen these resources for yourself before showing them to your children. Follow this link to the accompanying Notebooking Pages before you begin your adventure. First off start by reading up on Native American History. There is a lot here so pick and choose what you are most interested in or do it all. (scroll down to the American-Indian heading) The titles in brown are Intermediate and the titles in read are Advanced. Take a Virtual Field Trip to a Longhouse. Native American History Video Part 1 Native American History Video Part 2 Native American History Video Part 3 Native American History Video Part 4 Watch these videos and learn everything there is to know about the dreamcatcher! The Dreamcatcher Part 1 The Dreamcatcher Part 2 The Dreamcatcher Part 3 The Dreamcatcher Part 4 The Dreamcatcher Part 5 The Dreamcatcher Part 7 Now make your own dreamcatcher. Learn about Native Americans contributions to Science. Learn the science behind constructing a canoe and build your own. Native American Virtual Field Trip (even includes a pdf worksheet to go along with your adventure) Math Lesson: Take your time to go through this amazing resource for Native American Geometry. Make your own Tepee craft. Or make a Tepee Diorama If you are really adventurous make an outdoor Tepee that you actually fit in. Listen to American Indian Fairy Tales and learn their culture. Book of IndiansAuthor: Holling C. Holling Unit Study at HomeschoolShare Here are some more resources from HomeschoolShare. Native American Coloring Pages (most geared for older children and including educational value.) Here are some more The Homeschool Mom has ton of stuff to pick through so pick and choose. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about Totem Poles. Make sure you explore this site! There is a ton to see and learn here. Craft Activity: Soap Totem Pole Use these free totem pole designs to create a soap totem pole. Decide how many soap bars high you will want your totem pole. Next, draw your design in pen on your soap bars. Make sure they aren't too detailed. After you have your design then you will want to gather some carving tools (tooth picks, butter knife, a finger nail kit) Follow your design and carve into the soap with your carving tools. After your design is carved you can paint it with finger nail polish or leave it plain. Lastly use tooth picks to stack the bars of soap into a totem pole. You may need more then one tooth pick to secure each layer. Or you can cheat and do this easy Paper Totem Pole Craft. ONLINE AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUMS Learn about different kinds of Native American Headdresses. Now make your own Native American Headdress (not the cheesy construction paper feather kind) Indian Heroes and the Great Chieftains (Baldwin Project Free Online Book) Indian Boyhood (Baldwin Project Free Online Book) The Soul of the Indian (Baldwin Project Free Online Book) Blackfeet Indian Stories (Baldwin Project Free Online Book) Red Indian Fairy Book (Baldwin Project Free Online Book) Take A Virtual Tour: A Virtual Tour of the National Museum of the American Indian ExhibitionsCreation’s JourneyandAll Roads Are Good Watch this video of a Native American Pow Wow Use the picture dictionary below to make your own American Indian Fairy Tale. First you need a paper grocery sack or for a mini-version a paper lunch sack. Then crumple up the paper sack. The more the better! For the best results use charcoal (or substitute with black crayon) and write your Native American Picture Story on your crumpled sack. Thank you for visiting Noah's Ark Homeschool Academy's Upper Elementary Native American Unit Study.
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Crafts, like these Native American crafts for kids, are a simple way to get kids interested in learning more about different cultures. Pair these kids American Indian crafts with a history lesson or book.
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FUN, hands-on Native Americans for Kids lesson with activities, crafts, printables and more to make learning history for kids come alive! K-6th grade.
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, this is a great time to learn about Native Americans using hands-on activities and printable Native American crafts.
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15 meaningful crafts and 5 inspiring stories that teach toddlers and preschoolers about Native American heritage. Perfect for the November!
Crafts are a great way to introduce students to the history of the country's Native American population. Projects ideas include drums, dream catchers, medicine bags, and more.
We've been reading Charlotte and David Yue's The Wigwam and the Longhouse this week, and it's been spawning quite a bit of creative play - fire pits... ...and Indian camps in the backyard, and that sort of thing. The Yue's, while leaning pretty heavily in the direction of the "noble savage" in their depiction of the eastern Native American tribes, do a fantastic job presenting the details of their daily life gone by in a way that makes it seem very real, and appealing. We will definitely be looking for some of the authors' other titles, dealing with the history of native cultures from across North America. The easy to read text flows along almost poetically, accompanied by engaging black and white illustrations of the objects or scenes described, drawing the children in. My girls, in fact, were very excited to learn that wigwams and longhouses were once the property of the women who made them, or more specifically of the matriarch, or oldest woman of the families living in them. In fact, they were very keen to build a wigwam of their own to use as a fort in the backyard. But, when I refused to give them an ax for cutting down the saplings on the green space, they opted for a smaller, pipe cleaner version, for their Polly Pockets, instead. Following the Yue's instructions, they traced out the footprint of their wigwam in the dirt (or in their case, on the cardboard). Then, since they could not push the spiked ends of their "saplings" into the dirt, they secured them in place with bits of air-drying clay... ...overlapping, wrapping and... ...lashing them together with string... ...until they had a wigwamish sort of frame, with an opening left in the front for a door. They covered the frame with strips of felt - light brown to represent the reed mats women might have once used, and dark brown for mats of tree bark... ...being careful to leave an opening for smoke from the fire pit to escape through, at the top. They briefly considered sewing the felt to the pipe cleaner frame with a few stitches at the top of each strip, but it sounded like a lot of work, and the afternoon weather outside had turned unseasonably warm, so they secured the mats with an external pipe cleaner frame, to keep everything in place... ...and headed out, I can only assume, to play Pilgrims and Indians. It's great to be a homeschooler. Linked with : The Geography and History Meme at All Things Beautiful And, the stART (story + ART) link-up hosted by A Mommy's Adventures.
This blog post outlines Native American activities to teach in the classroom. There are read alouds, technology activities, and more!
We spent this past week learning about Native Americans. Our centers were all Indian themed. We enjoyed a lot of Native American tales and did some fun art jobs to go along with the stories. We also worked on a study of different tribes and the different types of homes they made. We are creating a book of what we learn about Native Americans. At this center they listened to the book I Can Read About Indians and then worked on drawing Indians in different setting and writing facts that they learned. They put Indian symbols in ABC order and sorted Indian cards with different r clusters to go with a skill in reading. They were introduced to using a ruler to measure to the nearest inch. They measured different Native American symbols. Another center they unscramble words to make a complete sentence about Indians and they worked on number order to 75 by putting sets in order from least to greatest. These are 3 of the legends that we read this week. In the story Raven we learned how the light was put in the sky. The Legend of the Bluebonnet taught us about making sacrifices and not being selfish. The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush taught us that everyone is different and has a special gift to share with others. They loved this art job where we made the Indian Paintbrushes. We also made Indian headbands and collected our feathers for good behavior. Here are our Indian Princesses and Indian Warriors.
Well we finished our Headresses in time for Parent/Teacher interviews and here are the results. This project is in relation to the Fur Trade unit Grade 5 are taking in Social Studies. We discussed how furs were often traded for beads to decorate clothing and ceremonial objects. You can click on photo to see larger. Great job Grade 5!! We started out by drawing a head in profile...the kids used a 1/2 sheet of 90lb watercolor paper. I asked them to try and fill the space with the head as we were mounting them on a full sheet of black posterboard. We talked a bit about placement of features....to try and keep the tip of the nose as the center of the head and not the eyes..to extend out with a rounded skull that connects back to the jaw line...to add a jaw line so the head and neck are distiguished from one another. I then asked then to draw a band for the headress that sort of looks like a boomerang and a large circular medallion. We cut these out of white posterboard. You can test the size ...the heads were already cut out and we measured on the posterboard where the forehead was and where we wanted the band to end. This made the sketching out easier. I had printed off some reference photos for them to help them along. Then the painting started. They had to paint the head...the band (it needed to have a design as it was to show beading), the medallion, and then as many feathers as they could fit on another 1/2 sheet of watercolor paper in assorted sizes. The kids are using disk tempera. I also asked them to paint a square of newspaper in at least 2 colors using liquid tempera for the beads we were going to make...you could also use photocopier paper for this. We then cut out all our components. It was easier to paint our feathers uncut and this also decreased the amount of curling when they dried. We then glued our heads down on our black poster board taking care to move our heads to the side giving us room for the headress. Using fine sharpies we added lines to our medallion and band to make it appear beaded...we are trying to alternate our lines like shingles on a roof. We then hold our band up to the head to see where the feathers should go and start gluing them down...here we have a board over the face to help the glue dry flat. We used some real colored feathers as well to help fill out our headress. We then glued our band into place. We took our bead paper and cut it into long triangles. We then took a pencil and began rolling the paper starting with the wide end first. When you are about 1/2 way down the paper apply some glue to the center of the remaining paper. Continue rolling. And then slide the bead off the pencil. We made a hole thru our medallion...strung some beads on a piec of yarn with some pony beads mixed it and knotted our yarn. We then glued our medallion in place on the band about where the ear would be. ...and that was it. We had lots of Leprechaun traps arriving on Tuesday....... but no Leprechauns were caught yesterday although they mixed up everyone's shoes in the classrooms. I'll see you next time with some photos of the school wide art display that was put together for Parent/Teacher interviews. Take care.
This blog post outlines Native American activities to teach in the classroom. There are read alouds, technology activities, and more!
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get
Art to Remember is scheduled to ship out to Bradley this Monday, November 18th and we should receive all the art by that Wednesday. My goal is to have all students bring home their keepsakes by Tuesday, November 26th. Kindergarten students created a mixed media art project this week to celebrate Native American Heritage month. The tepees were made with construction paper, markers, and Popsicle sticks and the backgrounds were painted. 1st grade students are creating 3d tepees and will be completing them soon. We are using brown lunch bags to create the tepees. 2nd grade students also created art to celebrate Native American Heritage month. This project was a mixed media project. We used brown butcher paper, markers, construction paper, and beans. The main focus of this lesson was on symbols. We discussed how Native American Indians drew pictures to tell stories. 2nd graders also made these very cool looking birch trees. We used a technique called masking and used watercolor paint. We added tree shadows to add a nice finishing touch. Students had the choice of either a blue sky or a sunset sky. These birch tree forest turned out wonderful! 3rd graders had fun being "mad scientist" and creatied their own science lab. First we drew our science labs and then painted them... but in a different way. Students learned a new technique - blowing on wet paint. This technique gave the appearance of explosions and helped to make their science labs look as tho a real mad scientist had created it. 4th grade students are finishing their Leaf project and should have them completed by next week. 5th graders are working on different projects at this time. I've learned that all my classes work at different speeds and trying to keep them all on the same schedule is impossible. My goal was to have all students start on their "Fall Harvest" art last week, but we still have many students working on completing their Modigliani self portrait. Hopefully by the first few weeks of December, they will all be caught up and working on the same project. For those students who have started on their "Fall Harvest" art, they are half was complete.
LEARNING AT HOME Native American Stick Game Native American tribes throughout the United States have countless longstanding traditions, including a variety of games unique to Native American cultures. One widespread group of similar games traditionally used animal bones as scoring pieces and are
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get
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A complete unit bundle of north american desert themed activities aimed at children aged 2-6. All items feature my own beautiful hand-illustrated watercolour images, each can be used in a wide range of ways and is ideal for incorporating into your studies. This pack includes Inspiration Guide detailing suggested ways to use the included resources: Set of 12 Sonoran Desert Wildlife Flashcards Sonoran Wildlife Habitat Poster Sonoran Wildlife ID Poster Animal Family Sorting Activity Saguaro Cacti Anatomy and Life Cycle Poster Bat Pollination Poster Desert Landforms Poster Native American Beading Patterns and Instructions Cactus Phonics with Desert Background Cacti Addition Activity Cacti Bowl Garden Cut and Stick Activity Spine count/clip cards Lizard Sight Words - includes all 100 high frequency words North American Biomes Activity and Poster Clay pot tracing patterns Prairie Dog 10 Frame and flashcards Snake Repeating Patterns Handwriting tracing strips in print and cursive. To create a tactile finished item I highly recommend printing onto high-quality paper, I like to use watercolour paper as this also allows the children to add their own paintings to the pages they create and means that every piece looks and feels like an original painting. For more ideas on ways to use this set, take a look at our instagram account @fiddlesticks.education You will receive a digital download file in PDF format sized to A4 ready to print - no physical product will be shipped to you. If you have any issues with downloading or printing my files do not hesitate to contact me.
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This blog post outlines Native American activities to teach in the classroom. There are read alouds, technology activities, and more!
