
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
“Done For You” Courses
that meet AZ state standards
in Arizona history and social
sciences, ELA and STEAM.
Painting by Quincy Tahoma.
Watercolor on paper. Title: Navajo Sing.
Amerind for Educators
Amerind for Educators is federally funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, created to provide free quality online learning resources for educators in Arizona. The lessons incorporate Amerind Museum’s Native American collection of historic and archaeological materials, informed by knowledgeable Native American cultural specialists, archaeologists, and historians. To provide content that meets varied learning styles, the site offers engaging online classroom lessons for elementary school educators using images, readings, videos, and virtual field trips. Assessment tools are built into the lessons for seamless measurement of a student’s growth. Each lesson has been produced by an experienced curriculum specialist and aligns with Arizona’s third through fifth-grade social studies, language arts, and STEAM standards.
Our Featured Course
O’odham Traditional Life
O’odham Traditional Life is a high-interest, Arizona-relevant lesson that covers 3rd – 5th-grade geography, history, and multiple ELA standards. Students will have access to a reading library, an essential vocabulary learning game, and hands-on engaging learning activities.
Meets AZ State Educational Standards
These courses have been developed by an AZ state-certified teacher with diligence and strict adherence to the following state standards.
History
- Southeastern Arizona Pre-history
- Arizona’s Indigenous People
- O’odham
- Apache
- General Native American Knowledge
ELA
- Nonfiction reading passages
- Fiction reading passages
- Text Structures (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution)
- Primary and secondary sources
- Writing prompts
Disciplinary Skills and Process
- Posing and framing questions
- Gathering a variety of evidence
- Recognizing continuity and detecting change over time
- Utilizing chronology to examine cause and effect relationships
- Drawing and combining reasonable inferences from a variety of sources to build an understanding of complex questions
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Thank you for your Contributions!
These courses are made possible thanks to our incredible contributors who generously shared their knowledge to make this curriculum a reality.

From our Curriculum Specialist
