Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Highlights from Native American Unit (Aug-Sept)

Here is a brief list of lessons/highlights from our Native American unit (unfortunately I had not gotten in the habit of bringing my camera to school yet):
  • Making our class time machine! (this was on the first day of school)
  • Making salt dough 3D maps of the United States
  • Cherokee Harvest Festival and Native American occupations (hunter, gatherer, farmer, artisan)
  • Learning traditional Iroquois dances (smoke dance and stomp dance)
  • Discussing the lives of the cliff-dwelling Anasazi, making clay pots
  • The significance of Native American symbols - carving soap (petroglyphs) and painting rocks (pictographs)
  • Making our own snow goggles - the lifestyle of the Inuit people

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