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Different Groups of Native Americans

**Grade Level: 5th Grade Social Studies**

**Description**The students will research information online to distinguish between the different groups of Native Americans. They will then create a project using a shoebox to replicate the ways of life of the groups including the goods they possessed to make trading an asset.

**Objective**Students will identify and compare historic Native American (Indian) groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration while also describing the trade that was to become the West Africa-European trade connection.

**Louisiana** **Content Standard** **The World in Spatial Terms:** **4** Locate major landforms and geographic features, places, and bodies of water/waterways on a map of the United States **United States** **History** **2****8** Describe the trade that connected the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa prior to 1620, including the origins of the West Africa-European trade connection **29** Compare and contrast Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans converging in the Western Hemisphere after 1492
 * 27 ** Identify and describe indigenous cultures and groups that existed in the Americas at the beginning of European exploration

**ISTE NETS-S** - Technology concepts and operations - Research and information fluency - Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making - Communications and collaborations

**Action**This activity is completed after the initial unit on European Exploration is covered in the classroom as a whole group.

**Instructional Activities**(3 hour-morning period: 90 minute instruction, 90 minute per group on the computer) **Ongoing Assessment** The students will be observed during their group work and given a participation grade. They will also be assessed by their final product and presentation of their Artifacts box and information to the class. **Backup Plan** Students will use poster board if they are unable to get a shoe box or forget to bring one.
 * 1) Show a video of the different indigenous cultures and groups that existed in the beginning of European exploration **Materials**: Laptop, Activboard screen
 * 2) Discuss the difference of the groups and how each group was able to assist another group.
 * 3) The students will learn and understand how different groups of people are able to work together to create a trade system.
 * 4) There will be six groups of four that will work together to create a Native American Artifacts box. **Materials**: Shoe box, construction paper, items from home, markers, glue, crayons
 * 5) Students will research their group and decide what they need to make to put in their box to represent their Indigenous group. **Materials**: Computers

**Lesson Reflections and Notes**Students will be able to understand the importance of people working together in the world and in their classroom. They will also understand the importance of figuring out how the trade systems work to get the goods that people need to survive.