Native Americans

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Native Americans
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Analyze Learners
The intended age is 6-7 years old and first
grade. My first graders have previously learned
skills such as phonics. They know little about
phonics but know about the alphabet. They are in
the beginning stages of reading.
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State Objectives

• GM.1.4.2 - sing American folk songs.
• SS.1.5.3 - identify characteristics of the past
  and contributions of heroic people using sources
  such as stories, folk tales, pictures, poems,
  songs, legends, holidays and customs.
• RLA.1.1.14 - establish purpose for reading (e.g.,
  for information for pleasure to identify a
  specific viewpoint).

• RLA1.1.17 - increase amount of independent
  reading.
• VA.1.4.2 - discuss and compare how art can
  represent cultures or groups.
• MA.1.1.10 - model addition and subtraction of
  whole numbers using 18 or less items and write
  the corresponding number sentence.
• MA1.3.1 - draw and describe triangles, squares,
  circles, and rectangles according to number of
  sides and vertices.

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Materials Needed

• Pictures of teepees
• wood base
• sheet covering
• wood support
• Markers
• Hopi Rainbow and Medicine dance music
• online availability

• Rainbow Crow book
• Rainbow Crow Poem writing sheets
• Pottery Geometry worksheet
• Picture Problems worksheet
• Specific websites

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Websites Used

• Coyote and the Money Tree - This site provides an
  online animated story that the students can read
  by themselves. It also has a puzzle at the end of
  it. To solve it they have to answer questions
  about the story.
• Alta Vista This site is to provide pictures of
  teepees. I will need to show the students
  pictures so that they get a better understanding
  of what the Indians lived in and get a sense of
  what they looked like.
• EMusic This site provides music that the Native
  Americans called the Hopi Rainbow dance. The
  students can get an understanding of why the
  Indians used these at ceremonies.
• EMusic - This site also provides music that the
  Native Americans call the Medicine dance. The
  students can also get an understanding of why the
  Indians used these at ceremonies.

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Day by Day Lesson Plans Day One
Day One incorporates social studies. I will
introduce to the students what Indians lived in.
I will do this by showing them pictures of
teepees online. They need the understanding of
this because as a class we are going to create a
life size teepee.
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Day Two
Day Two involves the art of music. I will play
the Native Americans traditional Hopi Rainbow
dance and also the Medicine dance. The students
will understand the Native Americans beliefs and
how they lived. I will also teach to the students
how to do these dances and what their purposes
are. (Hopi and Medicine Dance Website)
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Day Three

• Day Three will instill independent reading. Ill
  do this by having the students get online and
  read the Coyote and the Money Tree story by
  themselves. They will need to solve a puzzle at
  the end of this story by answering correctly
  questions about the story. We will also read the
  Rainbow Crow by Nancy Van Laan together as a
  group. (Coyote and the Money Tree Website)

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Day Four

• Day Four involves art projects. This art lesson
  involves the story Rainbow Crow from the previous
  day. We will create our own Rainbow Crow poem
  book. This poem book is about their favorite
  color and how it makes them feel. Each student
  will get a worksheet to address their favorite
  color. I will collect them and bind them into a
  book.

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Day Five

• Day Five will incorporate math. The students will
  learn about different geometry shapes by doing a
  worksheet I will pass out. These worksheets still
  involve Native Americans in the fact its called
  Pottery Geometry. The students will also learn
  their numbers 1-10 in the worksheet labeled
  Picture Problems. This worksheet uses Native
  American symbols as the numbers.

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Require Learner Participation
In being a teacher you have the responsibility of
teaching. You have to do so in such a way that
the students enjoy it, interested, and on task.
If you dont do so your students will fail at
being properly educated. You can keep them
interested in many ways. Make sure that the
lessons you teach are not just book work. Have
hands on projects and get the students involved.
Create fun environments that will pull the
students to want to learn.
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Evaluation

• GM.1.4.2 The lesson on Native American
  traditional dances can be evaluated easily. When
  teaching the students the dances I can observe
  them to see if they understanding and
  participating in the activity.
• SS.1.5.3 I can assess the students by asking
  them if they can describe and pick out what the
  Native Americans used as homes. I can ask them to
  tell me the differences in their homes compared
  to the Native Americans homes.
• RLA1.1.14 When reading the Rainbow Crow I can
  use many different types of assessment to see if
  they understand. When reading I can pass out
  three different posts-it colors. I will then ask
  the students what they think will happen in three
  different parts of the book. If their answers are
  way off I then know they do not comprehend what I
  am reading to them.
• VA1.4.2 In the Rainbow Crow poem book I can
  view their worksheets that they filled out as
  assessment. Also in making a life size teepee, I
  can assess the students by observing to see if
  they are participating and know what to do.
• MA.1.1.10 and MA.1.3.1 For assessment in math I
  can check their two worksheets that they did to
  see if they understood their math lesson. If more
  than half of the class did them wrong I know I
  will have to go back and teach that skill to them
  again.

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