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O’odham Traditional Life – Part 1 History
The O’odham Traditional Life History Lesson (H1.1) lesson will compare and contrast the O’odham traditional life to the present day. Focusing on food, shelter, clothing,…
O’odham Traditional Life – Part 2 ELA Crosswalk
The O’odham English Language Arts (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, and vocabulary activities. This lesson addresses compare…
O’odham Traditional Life – Part 3 – STEAM
The O’odham STEAM resources for this lesson contain hands-on engineering and design activities, arts and craft coiling pot activities, O’odham music lessons, and an O’odham…
O’odham Traditional Life – Part 4 Resources
View Course This course includes a list of links to resources that can be used for extended learning. Special Thanks to Our Contributors Amerind would…
O’odham Living on the San Pedro River – Part 1 History
This lesson investigates the O’odham living in the San Pedro Valley, focusing on the many desert resources. Students will explore water sources, desert animals, desert…
O’odham Living on the San Pedro River – Part 2 ELA Crosswalk
O’odham Living on the San Pedro (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, and vocabulary activities. This lesson addresses…
O’odham Living on the San Pedro River – Part 3 STEAM
The O’odham Living on the San Pedro River STEAM resources for this lesson contain hands-on engineering and design activities focused on promoting a deeper understanding…
O’odham Living on the San Pedro River – Part 4 Resources
The O’odham Living on the San Pedro digital resources include a list of links to resources that can be used for extended learning. These resources…
O’odham Language Lesson – Part 1 History
This O’odham Language Lesson focuses on the past and present of O’odham language (H2.1). Students will explore O’odham grammar, O’odham words, the importance of O’odham…
O’odham Language Lesson – Part 2 ELA
The O’odham Language Lesson (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, and O’odham vocabulary activities. This lesson addresses compare…
O’odham Language Lesson – Part 3 STEAM
The O’odham Language STEAM resources for this lesson contain interactive song and dance activities focusing on promoting a deeper understanding of the O’odham Language. Students…
O’odham Language Lesson – Part 4 Resources
The O’odham Language digital resources include links to resources created by O’odham educators and leaders. These fun videos share the O’odham language in an engaging…
O’odham Governments in Arizona Today – Part 1 History
This O’odham Government Lesson examines The O’odham Nation’s Sovereign rights and citizenship (H3.1). Students will explore how O’odham sovereignty predates the sovereignty of the United…
O’odham Governments in Arizona Today – Part 2 ELA
The O’odham Government in Arizona Lesson (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, primary sources (including The O’odham Constitution with Preamble), multiple opportunities…
O’odham Governments in Arizona Today – Part 3 STEAM
The O’odham STEAM resources has plans for a class constitution party where students become a part of the process of government. They agree on their…
O’odham Governments in Arizona Today – Part 4 Resources
The O’odham Government in Arizona digital resources links to resources focusing on Tribal Sovereignty. What is Tribal Sovereignty? What do Tribal Governments do? These are…
O’odham Art Forms – Part 1 History
This O’odham Art Forms Lesson examines the history and impact of art forms within the O’odham Nation. (H1.1). Students will explore O’odham basket weaving, storytelling,…
O’odham Art Forms – Part 2 ELA
The O’odham Art Forms Lesson (ELA) portion contains fiction and nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions. Primary and secondary sources are used to explore O’odham…
O’odham Art Forms – Part 3 STEAM
The O’odham Art Forms STEAM resources offer hands-on activities designed to connect students to the O’odham culture using art. Students can coil a pot, weave…
O’odham Art Forms – Part 4 Resources
The O’odham Art Forms digital resources extend students’ learning about basket weaving, storytelling, songs, poetry, pottery, painting, and song and dance. Included are weaving traditions,…
O’odham Plants and Animals – Part 1 History
This O’odham plants and animals lesson focuses on the O’odham’s homeland, the Sonoran Desert. The O’odham have thrived, despite the harsh desert climate, since time…
O’odham Plants and Animals – Part 2 ELA
The ELA portion of the O’odham plants and animals lesson contains highly engaging nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, differentiated reading…
O’odham Plants and Animals – Part 3 STEAM
The O’odham plants and animals STEAM resources for this lesson contain hands-on engineering and design activities focused on problem solving and innovation. Using only resources…
O’odham Plants and Animals – Part 4 Resources
The O’odham Living plants and animal’s digital resources include a list of links to resources that can be used for extended learning. Students will learn…
How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers? – Part 1 History
How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers (HI.3) explores causes and effects of European exploration and colonization. This lesson uses primary and secondary sources to…
How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers? – Part 2 ELA
The How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, and primary versus secondary…
How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers? – Part 3 STEAM
The How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers STEAM resources for this lesson contain a map research activity that provides the foundation for several engineering…
How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers? – Part 4 Resources
The How Were Native Lands Lost to Colonizers digital resources include animated videos with maps and timelines showing when and where Native Lands were lost,…
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States – Part 1 History
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States (H2.3) examines the cycles of conflict and compromise that occurred in the Americas between the…
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States – Part 2 ELA
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, a compare and contrast activity, Indigenous virtual…
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States – Part 3 STEAM
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States STEAM resources for this lesson contains several engaging hands-on engineering activities for designing rockets, boats,…
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States – Part 4 Resources
The Size of the Indigenous Population in the United States resources includes kid-friendly, engaging videos, maps, and stories to be used for extended learning. Understanding…
The First Thanksgiving: An Accurate History – Part 1 History
The Appropriate Thanksgiving Lessons (H2.1) examines Thanksgiving in a socially responsible way by providing accurate information that rejects traditions supporting harmful stereotypes about Indigenous people…
The First Thanksgiving: An Accurate History – Part 2 ELA
The Appropriate Thanksgiving lesson (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, perspective activities integrating information from several texts, a Venn Diagram activity comparing…
The First Thanksgiving: An Accurate History – Part 3 STEAM
The Appropriate Thanksgiving lesson STEAM resources for this lesson contain an art activity with read aloud, a hands-on beaded corn activity, and several engaging learning…
The First Thanksgiving: An Accurate History – Part 4 Resources
The Appropriate Thanksgiving lesson resources includes kid-friendly, videos and stories about the Harvest Ceremony, known today as Thanksgiving. Understanding the different perspectives of history can be…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in The United States? – Part 1 History
This lesson investigates the 574 federally recognized tribal governments in the United States. Tribal governments are sovereign, meaning having the inherent right of a people…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in The United States? – Part 2 ELA
The How Many Tribal Governments Are in the United States? (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, and a…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in The United States? – Part 3 STEAM
The How Many Tribal Governments Are in the US? STEAM resources for this lesson focus on earth and space science with a secondary focus on…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in The United States? – Part 4 Resources
Teaching government to young scholars can be challenging, confusing, and honestly boring. These How Many Tribal Governments Are in the United States digital resources include…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 1 History
This lesson investigates the 22 federally recognized tribal governments in Arizona. Tribal governments are sovereign, meaning having the inherent right of a people to govern…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 2 ELA
The How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, an Arizona map activity,…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 3 STEAM
The How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona STEAM resources for this lesson focus on Arizona’s geography. Students will explore the 22 tribal lands in…
How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona? – Part 4 Resources
Teaching Arizona government to young scholars can be challenging, confusing, and honestly boring. These How Many Tribal Governments Are in Arizona digital resources include videos,…
Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 1 History
The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation lesson (H1.2) investigates how some boarding schools were designed to replace Native American traditional ways of life with mainstream…
Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 2 ELA
The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions and a truth and healing curriculum from the National Native…
Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 3 STEAM
The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation STEAM resources for this lesson contain hands-on engineering and design activities, create your own code activity, and map and…
Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation – Part 4 Resources
The Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation digital resources include animated videos with maps and timelines showing the history of boarding schools using child-appropriate facts and…
Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné (Navajo) – Part 1 History
Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné lesson will compare and contrast the Diné traditional life to the present day. This lesson illustrates that despite everything, the…
Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné (Navajo) – Part 2 ELA
The Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné (ELA) portion contains nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions, an exploratory virtual library, and vocabulary activities. This lesson addresses…
Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné (Navajo) – Part 3 STEAM
The Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné STEAM resources for this lesson contain an interactive Navajo Code Talker activity, hands-on engineering and design activities, and jewelry…
Arizona’s Most Populous Tribe-The Diné (Navajo) – Part 4 Resources
This course includes a list of links to resources that can be used for extended learning about the Navajo Code Talkers and how to use…