Fourth Grade Ojibwe Webquest

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Fourth Grade Ojibwe Webquest

• Mrs. Unertl
• Ms. Gagne
• Grade 4 Churchill Elementary

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Beginning

• We will introduce students to this Ojibwe study
  by teaching about the medicine wheel
• Students will create a medicine wheel that they
  can share
• Ojibwe culture/words on one side and information
  about themselves on other

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Webquest

• The time machines compass is broken and the
  class has been launched back in time to a
  Minnesota Ojibwe village pre-European contact.
  In order to return you must survive a season as
  part of an Ojibwe family-improving your skills
  and knowledge of native ways. Only these skills
  and knowledge can fuel the machine and repair the
  compass.

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Refueling the Time Machine

• Students will need to adopt the role of a tribal
  family member.
• Students will learn through internet links,
  speaker, book research.
• Students will record experiences in a Journey
  Guide
• Students will share knowledge and teach newly
  learned skills.
• Students will compare life in a village to life
  now
• Students will communicate in the Anishinabe
  language and show respect.

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The Task

• The class will be divided into groups
• Each group is an Ojibwe family working together
  in a different season.

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The Process

• Each family will have four members.
• Elder
• Adult
• Young Adult
• Child

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Elder

• Elder is the teacher in the family
• Complete Journey Guide
• Design/Teach whole class a lesson/craft

• Winter Beadwork
• Spring Games
• Summer Basketry
• Fall Fishing

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Adult

• Adult is the provider in the family
• They will do research about the Food, Clothing
  and Shelter of their season and construct a
  diorama

• Include
• Beadwork/fire for winter
• Maple and games for spring
• Birch and baskets for summer
• Wild rice and fishing for fall

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Young Adult

• Young Adults will research and prepare a Then
  and Now bulletin board

• To include Food Clothing and Shelter for each
  season and
• Winter beadwork/moccasin
• Spring games/tobacco
• Summer birch use/pow-wow
• Fall fishing/smudging

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Child

• Oral Traditions
• Child will complete journey guide and keep
  language and oral traditions alive by learning
  and sharing.

Winter legends Spring publish maple sugar how
to book Summer publish birch legend
storybook Fall publish how to ricing book
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Coming Together

• As a whole family group, students will prepare to
  teach the class 4-8 most important Anishinabe
  words and meanings of their seasons. This will be
  in powerpoint format.

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Coming Together

• Also they will present groups idea of Native
  RESPECT through seasonal teamwork.
• Presentation can be in the form of
• Cinquain poem
• Song
• Free Form Collage
• Wordle

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Conclusion

• Students will come together as a group to share
  and compare skills and knowledge gained to refuel
  the machine and repair the compass and return to
  2008?

• Did you survive a season?
• Did you improve your knowledge of native ways?
• Are your experiences recorded in the guide?
• Are you prepared to share and teach your skills?
• Can you communicate in the Anishinabe language
  and show respect?

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Questions