Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
ReadWriteThink | Unit Plan | K-2
Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.

Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
EDSITEment | Lesson | K-2
This lesson helps dispel prevailing stereotypes and generalizing cultural representations of American Indians by providing culturally specific information about the contemporary as well as historical cultures of distinct tribes and communities within the United States.

Explore Pueblo Pots
History Explorer | Lesson | K-4
Students will learn the meaning of imagery on two Pueblo pots by examining images and reading short excerpts from Native American folklore. They will then design their own pots by creating symbols and will explain the meaning of the symbols.

Make Your Own Buffalo Hide Painting
History Explorer | Lesson | K-12
Students will learn about the culture of the Native American people of the Great Plains as they create their own buffalo hide paintings using a printable buffalo hide outline. Inspired by the Indians of the Great Plains, they will draw pictures of things that represent important events in their lives and their family's history, or draw a hide with a geometric design.

Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 3-5
Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.

Early Multi-National Influences in the United States
EDSITEment | Lesson | 3-5
Beginning with Columbus's first landing in the New World, European nations laid claim to what would become the United States. Vestiges of that history are part of the American landscape. The lessons are designed to help your students make connections between European voyages of discovery, colonial spheres of influence, and various aspects of American culture.

Native Americans Today
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 3-5
This lesson challenges students' views of Native Americans as a vanished people by asking them to compare their prior knowledge with information they gather while reading about contemporary Native Americans.

Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
EDSITEment | Lesson | 3–5
Students will heighten their awareness of Native American diversity as they learn about three vastly different Native groups in a game-like activity using archival documents such as vintage photographs, traditional stories, photos of artifacts, and recipes.

Battling for Liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry’s Language of Resistance
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 6-8
Students study Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech and the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action.

Endangered Languages
Science NetLinks | Lesson | 6-8
This lesson introduces students to the science of linguistics and endangered languages.

Environment, Technology, and Culture of the Chumash People
Science NetLinks | Lesson | 6-8
In this lesson, students develop an understanding of the interrelatedness of technology, culture, and environment as illustrated by the Chumash culture.

The Illusion of Race
Science NetLinks | Lesson | 6-8
This lesson helps students understand the ways that we have classified and defined groups, and to help students understand basic genetic traits that we have inherited from our common ancestors.

Myth and Truth: The "First Thanksgiving"
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 6-8
By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the "First Thanksgiving," this lesson asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America.

Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 6-8
Students read a poem by a Native American, explore Native American culture and then create a Website that explains words and phrases from the poem.

Common Visions, Common Voices
EDSITEment | Lesson | 9 - 12
The borders that separate and connect different cultures often come into sharpest relief when we focus on themes and motifs found in the literature or the visual arts of several lands. Students can discover such points of intercultural contact for themselves, crossing borders that can lead them to a broader perspective on the common vision human cultures share.

Influencing Cultures
Science NetLinks | Lesson | 9-12
Students explore what factors influence a change in culture amongst a community or group of people in this lesson.

Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 9-12
Following the model of N. Scott Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain, students write three-voice narratives based on Kiowa folktales, an interview with an Elder, and personal connections to theme.