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Native Americans Virtual Museum Worksheet
Over the next few weeks, we will be learning about the tribes who lived in the Americas before the arrival of European explorers. As part of our studies, you will be researching one tribe, becoming an expert on their way of life. You will learn about the tribe’s clothing, housing, crafts, geographic location, and much more. All of your research will be presented using Google Slides as a Virtual Museum. Below are key dates to help you plan your research and keep you on track with deadlines. If you have any questions about your report, or need any help, please be sure to ask!
Research: Week of Aug. 29th
Google Slides Virtual Museum: Weeks of Sep. 6th and Sep. 12th
Virtual Museum Walkthrough: Week of Sep. 19th
You are required to turn in your notes (this worksheet).
Be sure to cite all of your sources!
About the Virtual Museum
You will create a Virtual Museum using Google Slides (we will go over the template in detail next week). You will create a virtual environment that will allow someone to act as though they are walking through your museum and looking at pictures and descriptions just like a real museum. Your museum will have 7 rooms:
Room 1: Geographic Location
Room 2: Adapting to the Region
Room 3: Clothing
Room 4: Technology and Crafts
Room 5: Housing
Room 6: Customs
Room 7: Economics and Politics
In each room, you will need to have at least 2 pictures that you will hang on the walls (just like a real museum). You will need to provide descriptions about these pictures and your tribe.
Here are a couple examples of pictures with descriptions:
Museum Room #1 – Geographic Location: Where did this tribe live?
Describe the region in which this tribe lived. Include details such as the climate, major land formations or other geographical features, or any other environmental factors that may have impacted your tribe. Please include a map of the United States that indicates where the tribe generally lived.
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Museum Room #2 – Adapting to the Region: How did your tribe adapt to this region of the United States?
For example, did your tribe depend on certain types of food or building materials that was available in this region of the United States?
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Museum Room #3 - Clothing: What type of clothing did the tribe members wear?
Be sure to describe it. Was it different for men, women and children?
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Museum Room #4 – Technology and Crafts: What are some of the things they made and technologies they used?
Each tribe had its own unique arts, crafts and tools that it would make and use as part of its culture. Describe some of the things your tribe created and what they were used for.
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Museum Room #5 - Housing: What kind of house did they live in? How did they build them?
Each tribal group lived in a home that suited their own needs depending upon the geography of the land and the tribe’s basic needs.
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Museum Room #6 - Customs: What are some customs and oral traditions of your tribe?
For example: What work did the men do? The women do? The children do? What language did they speak and what did it sound like? What kind of games did they play? What was their music like? What religion did this tribe follow?
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Museum Room #7 – Economics and Politics: What was the political and economic organization of your tribe?
For example: Did they use any form of money? What kind? Did they have a tribe leader? Did they have a tribe council and how was it organized?
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Social Studies Standards We Will Learn in this Project:
SS 5.3.4 I can identify Native American Indian and colonial settlements on maps and explain the reasons for the locations of these places.
Room #1: Where did this tribe live?
SS 5.3.11 I can describe adaptation and how Native American Indians and colonists adapted to variations in the physical environment.
Room #2: How did your tribe adapt to this region of the United States?
SS 5.1.3 I can compare and contrast historic Indian groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Room #3: What type of clothing did the tribe members wear?
Room #4: What are some of the things they made and technologies they used?
Room #5: What kind of house did they live in? How did they build them?
Room #6: What are some customs and oral traditions of your tribe?
SS 5.4.1 I can describe the economic activities within and among Native American Indian cultures prior to contact with Europeans.
Room #7: What was the political and economic organization of your tribe?
ELA Standards We Will Learn in this Project:
EL.5.4.5 - I can use note-taking skills when completing research for writing.
5.W.5 – I can conduct short research assignments and tasks on a topic. With support, formulate a research question (e.g., what were John Wooden’s greatest contributions to college basketball?). I can identify and acquire information through reliable primary and secondary sources. Summarize and paraphrase important ideas and supporting details, and include direct quotations where appropriate, citing the source of information. I avoid plagiarism and follow copyright guidelines for use of images, pictures, etc. Present the research information, choosing from a variety of sources.
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