Lesson Plan: "Sort-It-Out": North American Indians and their Cultures

Subject Area(s): Social Studies

Grade Level(s): 6

Format of Library of Congress media: Images

Best Instructional Practices

Standards

Analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events. (USI.1f)
Identify and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding of events and life in United States history. (USI.1a)
Interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives. (USI.1d)

Length

Approximately two 45-minute class period (depending on student pacing)

Lesson Summary

This lesson should be used as a culminating project once students have finished studying early American Indian cultures or as a review activity. After exploring and analyzing primary sources, students will sort images and create a photo journal. The photo journal will include a front cover, dedication, title page, tables of contents, captions for each photograph, an index and back cover.

Inuit Indians:

Pueblo Indians

Great Plains

Iroquois Indians

Kwakiutl Indians

Applies to all groups

Map of the Indian tribes of North America, about 1600 A.D.

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