Topic 2 Native Americans Northeast Indians - American History Curriculum

American History Curriculum
Topic 2 Native Americans: Northeast Indians

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This history topic is about Native Americans who lived in Northeast America. Scroll down to the schedule below for all of the activities! While studying this topic you will get to:

Learn about Indians who lived in Northeast America
Learn about bear safety
Make a recipe with rice
Make a canoe model and build a long house

and of course much more!

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M next to a title indicates there is a corresponding map assignment in the Map or Globe section of the schedule

T next to a title indicates there is a corresponding Timeline suggestion in the Timeline section of the schedule.

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Topic 2 Native Americans: Northeast Indians
Workbook	The Story of the U.S.A Book 1 Chapter 2: How the Native Americans Lived
Reading	North American Indians: Northeast Indians (M-1, 2) The Birchbark House (T-1) Hiawatha (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) –read the “adapted” book or portions of the poem from online Cobblestone: The Ojibwe Indians of the Great Lakes Children’s Treasury of Virtues: The Indian Cinderella (p.88) Optional: The Indian Book (1980 Annual Childcraft) Read stories from it for the different Indian tribes
History Pockets	History Pockets Native Americans: Pocket 8 (p.74-83) The Iroquois Booklet Three sisters supplies: corn, bean and pumpkin seed (or draw these) Wampum wish list optional supplies: uncooked macaroni, food coloring, rubbing alcohol
Video	The Iroquois
Map or Globe (M)	1.Great Lakes (You will want to look at the Great Lakes on a globe or map to put this smaller, regional map in context). Label the lakes and the states that touch them (point out the parts of Canada too). Memorize the Great Lakes Mnemonic (Monkeys Have Superior Orange Ears) Great Lakes questions (optional) 2. Continue regions map, fill in as the book is read (label, draw in pictures of regional Indian housing, etc.) *OR do the History Pockets map from pocket 1
Timeline (T)	1. 1847 Birchbark House book cover
Notebooking (Language arts, history papers, illustrations, etc.)	Draw Write Now p.10-11 Ojibwa and birch bark canoe p.12-13 Longhouse and Iroquois
Science	Biology: What is rice lesson (Great Lakes Indians gathered rice) Anatomy of rice The Rice Cycle in pictures and a story (If it’s the right season and you have the room in your yard or garden, consider growing corn, beans and pumpkin (the 3 sisters) together! Bear safety guide (after reading pages 27-32 in Birchbark House)
Cooking	Make some fried rice (or a rice dish) for dinner! (Look up a recipe on Google or use your favorite.)
Crafts	Long House model supplies: construction paper, glue, scissors Optional: Additional house (birch bark style) AND people for a "village" ... Scroll down on the page above to the Prehistoric Ohio paper house kits and download. Print out page 4 for the people (discard the bottom half) and p. 9 or 10 for a "birch bark" style house. We printed ours onto brown construction paper (except for the people). Birch bark Canoe model supplies: construction paper, yarn, hole punch, scissors Other canoe model project page Optional: Make “rock people” like Omakayas (p.38 Birchbark House) *Supplies: rocks! You can also maybe glue them together and paint on clothes and faces. Add google eyes and maybe some yarn hair if you want to get fancy! See also History Pockets
Extras, Alternate Books and Notes	Wee Sing: America