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Digital Interactive Notebook - Native American Tribal Regions

Description: 

This unit focuses on the four tribal regions of native Americans in the United States. These regions are: Pacific Northwest, Desert Southwest, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands. The goal of this unit is to emphasize geographic, religious, legislative and economic differences and similarities between each region, and discuss the cultural traditions of each region. As part of this unit, students combine different mediums - art, short answer, note-taking, photography - to communicate and demonstrate their knowledge, as well as implementing a technology basis for their notes and work.

Learning Targets: 
Describe the geographical traits of each region.
Describe the religious structure of each region.
Describe the economy of each region.
Describe the legislative structure of each region.
Be able to identify differences and similarities of each region.
Link: 
Native Americans Digital Interactive Notebook
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BRqvu3rqsUsJyJfbDD822-GEEcHj_ZAmMNdgm5J8bhQ/edit
AttachmentSize
PDF icon Lesson Plan NA.pdf25.44 KB
Author: 
lerchse
Content Area: 
Social Studies
US History
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Interactive
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
5
Tags: 
native americans
geography
US history

Student prerequisite skills and knowledge

Students will need to have prior knowledge of how to use Google Docs and Slides, as components from both are included in this unit. In addition, they'll need to know how to take a picture and access it on whatever technology resource they're on.

How is the concept or procedure explained or demonstrated?

Each concept fits into the lesson either through class discussion/interaction or chapter information from their textbook. Specific note-taking procedures will be addressed in this unit as well - bulleting, paraphrasing, etc.

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

The concepts being presented in this unit are geographical, legislative, economical, and religious differences between native American cultures in the United States.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

The biggest challenges in this unit were formatting issues in Slides - text not being big enough, text boxes being moved, etc. All of these were easy fixes, just tedious. Successes in doing notes this way were the easy access to important information, and greater retention of important ideas and themes after working with the information in different ways.