Native Americans of the United States

Overview

The following activities focus on four Native American "tribes"scattered across the United States: the Iroquois, Pueblos, Seminoles, and Sioux.

Students will be accessing web sites and gathering information about these four tribes.  The Internet activities will include visiting interactive web sites to learn about four of the many nations across the United States.  

Students will be working in cooperative groups, completing a different activity daily.

They will visit one nation's site per day since these sites are quite extensive.  

This unit should be completed within four weeks as the groups will rotate to a different activity everyday.

At the end of this four week period,  there will be a culminating activity, the play "A Native American Welcome" by Sandra Widener; if this play is not available, locate a similar play about Native Americans.
 

Teacher's Philosophy

In this classroom, the teacher provides an active learning environment, where the students are happy learners who enjoy doing activities, researching, discussing, moving around, talking, and problem solving in a cooperative manner.
 

Teacher's Goals

The teacher's goal is for her students to become social individuals who are intrinsically motivated to learn and work independently or in a group.