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Groups of Native Americans


 * Grade Level: 5th Grade Social Studies **
 * Related Lesson- Groups of Native Americans **
 * Unit- Native Americans Way of Life **
 * Description: **The students will watch a video of the locations of the different tribes of Native Americans and create maps to show the different locations while comparing and contrasting the different resources for each group using Spiderscribe and Voicethread.


 * Objective: **Students will be able to identify the different groups of Native Americans according to location as well as compare and contrast the available resources of each group.

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 * Louisiana ****Content Standard **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The World in Spatial Terms: ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">4 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Locate major landforms and geographic features, places, and bodies of water/waterways on a map of the United States
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">United States ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">History ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">27 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Identify and describe indigenous cultures and groups that existed in the Americas at the beginning of European exploration
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">28 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 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
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">29 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Compare and contrast Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans converging in the Western Hemisphere after 1492
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ISTE NETS-S **


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Action: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This activity is completed after the initial unit on European Exploration is covered in the classroom as a whole group.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Instructional Activities **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(3 blocks of one hour)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Show a video of the different indigenous cultures and groups by location that existed in the beginning of European exploration **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Materials **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Laptop, Activboard screen
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Discuss the difference resources available to each group defined by their location.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The students will understand that different groups had different resources available and understand why those resources were available to them and benefited their lifestyle.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">There will be the same six groups of four that will work together to create a map to show the location of their tribe and their resources. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Materials **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: poster board, markers, glue, crayons, digital camera, computers.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will research their groups location and discuss how they want to draw their map. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Materials **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Computers
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will create their maps on poster board and take a picture of the map to download to [|www.voicethread.com]
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">They will also add pictures of their artifacts box from lesson one.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Using [|www.spiderscribe.com] students will also create a compare and contrast map which will be downloaded to [|www.voicethread.com] with their other pictures.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Ongoing Assessment **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The students will be observed during their group work and given a participation grade. They will also be assessed by their final product of their map drawing and their compare and contrast organizer from [|www.spiderscribe.com] as well as their [|www.voicethread.com] download.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Backup Plan **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will use present their maps to the class, if the computers are not working. They will still take the pictures and download them at another time or the teacher will download them from home.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Lesson Reflections and Notes: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will be able to understand the importance of people working together in the world and in their classroom. They will also grasp the concept of how different locations provide different resources for groups of people to survive.