Use level : 2nd grade
Time: Early Spring
Assignment: 2nd Grade
Native American project
Lower
School Reynolds Library Research Guide… to help you find additional resources.
Procedure: Each second grade student
picks a tribe in Language Arts groups. Students come to library and check out
individual tribes from library in the 970.004+ nonfiction.
Each student completes a report about
their tribe following the teacher’s assignment packet. Each student gives an
oral presentation in class.
List of Tribes:
|
Apache Cherokee Comanche Crow Hopi Iroquois Mohawk |
Navaho Nez
Perce Penobscot Seminole Shoshone Sioux Tlingit Zuni |
Print Sources:
970.004+
(various authors), Children’s Press’ “New True” Books series and Bridgestone
“Native Peoples’” series is available for our listed tribes at our library and
in many titles at the Howard County Public Libraries. These books have material
that second graders can use comfortably. They also have wonderful color
photographs.
Database: Sirs Discoverer
Deluxe
This
wonderful resource for our project has an encyclopedia, and many other sources:
magazine, special recommended websites, World Almanac For
Kids, biographies, photographs, newspapers, general study sheets, news and
maps about your tribe. It can be used at home for printing in color.
Note
the Reading Levels given for every item in Sirs Discoverer:
Materials rated “easy”
(green book icon) can be used by second graders successfully.
Enter
tribe name by natural language in search window. When the page opens, scroll down to the
bottom of the page. You will see:
Reading level: Easy Moderate
Challenging If you click on the checks
at “Moderate” and “Challenging,” and click SEARCH, you will get a shorter list
of materials rated EASY or GENERAL for second grade use.
Read
through the titles and try to select only ones that suit your project.
Titles with 
include photos, maps, or
pictures you may want to copy for your project.
An Encyclopedia entry is
available on main page at bottom right next to World Almanac For Kids. You can
click on the encyclopedia icon and type in your tribe name. An entry for your
use will appear and can be printed.
If you want more current
information, you can also click on “Cultures” icon. Then click on “World
Cultures and Ethnic Groups” on bottom right-hand list, then “North American,”
then “Native American.” Magazines and newspaper current articles about Native
Americans today will appear for you to choose. Those with a camera icon next to
the article have photographs you can print via your email address so you can
insert them in a report in color.
In short, SIRS contains many sources: magazine,
encyclopedia, World Almanac For Kids, biographies,
photographs, newspapers and recommended websites. All materials can be printed
or sent to your email address as wished by user.
You can use Sirs Discoverer away from school.
Contact me at my email address at the end of this pathfinder if you need help
to do this.
Internet Resources:
Tribes’
Websites:
http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/indians/intro.html
This wonderful website is designed by an
independent school for early elementary student use. Tribes are organized in
five geographic culture groups. In order to find your tribe’s culture group,
click on “The Five Cultures” in the main page menu. A map of our land will open
on which you can find your tribe’s name. Notice the colored region your tribe
belongs to. Write it down.
Scroll down to the table below the map. It gives
you main characteristics of your tribe’s culture group.
Go back to the main page introduction. Read it and
then click on your tribe’s culture group name in the menu beneath. You will
find many interesting facts and pictures about your tribe that you can use in
your report.
http://www.indians.org/welker/leaders.htm
Look up your tribe, listed after a chief or
leader’s name, then click on name. Useful for profiles of
famous Native Americans.
http://www.nhusd.k12.ca.us/ALVE/NativeAmerhome.html/nativeamhome.html
Native American Website For
Children
Click on map or tribe link for Inuit, Kwakiutl,
Navaho, and Cheyennne,
Southwest
Tribe:
http://www.indianpueblo.org/ipcc/
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Hub
Source:
Summary: Visit the cultural center for the Pueblo Indians
of New Mexico. Find background information on each of the nineteen current
clans as well as some information on the history of this tribe.
Northeast
Tribes:
http://www.mos.org/bigdigarch/
Big Dig Archaeology
Source: Boston
Museum of Science (MOS)
Summary: "Environmental
reconstruction charts the geologic history of Spectacle Island since the last
ice age. Artifacts and faunal remains document the changing nature of human
utilization of the island over the past 6,000 years." (MOS) Learn about
the tools, eating habits, and culture of Native Americans who vacationed on an
island in Boston Harbor for thousands of years. View artifacts and other items
from the midden (trash heap) of the natives. Good
photos of arrowheads, etc., of Northeast Tribes.
Many hands-on activities and fact sheets that
second graders would enjoy are featured in this popular site. Name of famous
Native Americans, i.e., “Powhatan,” is referenced under famous Americans’
names, i.e.,“John Smith.”
This site is famous for fun crafts for primary students.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian
Source: American
Memory, Library of Congress (LOC)
Summary: "The
North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and
controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever
produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues
to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture."
(LOC)
The best way to navigate this site is by browsing
the subjects. Type a tribe name, then click on
different titles of Curtis’ images for traditional sepia photographs of the
people.
Please
feel free to contact Linda Jeffries-Summers, the Lower School Librarian, with
any further questions you may have.
Email
me by clicking here!. (Click on underlined word.)