Recent Learning Events

The following pictures will show you much of what has been happening in our classroom during social studies over the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!

 

These students are partnered up together with two Native American regions. They examined the picture and read the text to determine ways in which to depict the cultural characteristics of their assigned regions.

Every student was put into a group to make a mural on a Native American culture region.Using their graphic organizers they were able to illustrate that attributes of their culture region including shelter, environment, food, and artifacts.

For this activity, students were able to examine the 3  most common series of migration to the Americas. They analyzed actual evidence from site cards, a map, a globe, and background on the theories to determine whether they believed the original Native Americans came from across the Atlantic Ocean, along the coast down the Pacific Ocean, or across a land bridge during the Ice Age.  Students then had the opportunity to debate with one another about which theory they believe to be true, as well as the opportunity to piece together their own theory of migration. It was a really cool lesson! 

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For this lesson, students had an opportunity to put together a pic collage or a brochure depicting the Eastern Woodlands Native American tribal cultures.

 Finally, today the students had an opportunity to act out scenes from pictures showing the interactions between Native Americans and explorers . I then interviewed with kids as though they were actually living during that time. It was a lot of fun and it was interesting to hear them and for how the people in these images might have felt during their interactions.