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Grade Level:
3-5
Estimated days to complete:
10+
Subject Area Focus:
English Language Arts,Social Studies/History
Summary: By reading the fictionalized memoir account of Canadian boarding school survivor Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (Inuvialuit) in the short, middle-grade novel Fatty Legs: A True Story and primary source full description
Creator Name:
Kate Ramsdell
Grade Level:
6-8
Estimated days to complete:
2 days
Subject Area Focus:
English Language Arts,Social Studies/History
Summary: The creation of the U.S. Constitution was considered revolutionary and unprecedented for the 18th century. The Founding Fathers have been cited to pull inspiration from ancient Greeks and prior full description
Creator Name:
John Ingram
Grade Level:
3-5
Estimated days to complete:
Subject Area Focus:
English Language Arts
Summary: Students bring in objects to share with their classmates and then write paragraphs describing objects that are important to them and their culture(s). This project culminates with a publishing party full description
Creator Name:
Deva Estin
Grade Level:
9-12
Estimated days to complete:
One or two class periods
Subject Area Focus:
English Language Arts,Social Studies/History
Summary: Students will look at various maps to identify perspectives, purposes, intended audiences, and overall messages and implications that are contained in them. We will then transfer our comments about full description
Creator Name:
Rachel DeTemple
Grade Level:
9-12
Estimated days to complete:
One to six weeks
Subject Area Focus:
Other
Summary: This lesson would be considered a unit. The goal is to have students look deeply at art of the Northeast Woodland Native culture both past and present and to see what meaning they can gain from the full description
Creator Name:
Cindy Bééshłigaii
Grade Level:
3-5
Estimated days to complete:
6 days
Subject Area Focus:
English Language Arts
Summary: This lesson sequence introduces students to the idea of Place. Its focus is on building the language related to the substantive topic of the peoples’ relationship with Place. We look at a region as a full description
Creator Name:
Catherine Doiron
Grade Level:
9-12
Estimated days to complete:
4 class periods
Subject Area Focus:
Social Studies/History
Summary: The interactions between Native Americans and those of European ancestry was unique to those involved, particularly when the time of contact and geographic location are taken into consideration. full description
Creator Name:
Bradley Veile
Grade Level:
9-12
Estimated days to complete:
4
Subject Area Focus:
Social Studies/History
Summary: When students are asked to summarize interactions between Indian peoples and Euro-Americans on the North American continent, they often describe the relations as tenuous, violent, and one-sided, full description
Creator Name:
Jennifer J. Gomez
