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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 different perspectives of history can be difficult to teach, but is an important part of critical thinking. These resources provide many different viewpoints for students to gain a deeper…
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, and Native American shelter. These activities include informative and literature based reading passages. Also included is a step-by-step dancing deer drawing guide showing students how to draw lines, patterns, organic…
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 library, and population map activity. This lesson addresses compare and contrast, chronological, and cause, and effect text structures. There is also a nonfiction writing prompt with a paired reading passage….
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 Europeans and Native Americans. The Nation’s Indigenous people had a population of nearly 10 million people before meeting the Europeans. Their numbers began to fall rapidly after that due to…
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, child-appropriate facts, and enrichment resources. The goal of Amerind is to get students excited about learning and to help create lifelong learners. These resources provide engaging opportunities for students to…
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 challenges. There is also a digital timeline activity that provides a visual representation of the loss of Native Lands while reinforcing map skills and chronological order. Students can also create…
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 source activity. The text structures compare and contrast, chronological, and cause and effect are embedded within this lesson’s content. Additionally, there is a nonfiction writing prompt, with paired reading passages,…
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 examine how Europeans viewed the Americas as an enormous wilderness area with great economic potential. However, the Americas had already been settled thousands of years earlier by many millions of…