Native Americans

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This unit has students examine the historical cultures of Native American tribes, prior to 1800. The regions are NE, SW, Plains, and NW. Students apply what they learn to create homes, tools, art, clothing, and more from their regions.

1.	A. Native Americans: ancient cultures
2.	B. Regions study of N.A.
3.	C. Native American Final project

Standards compiled from learning activities:

WA- Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements • Subject : Social Studies • Division: Geography • Standard : 1. The student uses maps, charts, and other geographic tools to understand the spatial arrangement of people, places, resources, and environments on Earth’s surface. • Area : 1.2 Recognize spatial patterns on Earth’s surface and understand the processes that create these patterns • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 1.2.1a Locate places, major physical features, and human spatial patterns using maps, globes, and other sources (Location, Place, Region) • Standard : 2. The student understands the complex physical and human characteristics of places and regions. • Area : 2.1 Describe the natural characteristics of places and regions and explain the causes of their characteristics • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 2.1.1 Observe and describe the physical characteristics of the local area and Washington State (Location, Region, Place) • Area : 2.2 Describe the patterns humans make on places and regions • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 2.2.1 Observe and describe the human characteristics of the local area and Washington State (Location, Region, Place, Human/Environment Interaction) • Area : 2.3 Identify the characteristics that define the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Rim as regions • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 2.3.1 Describe how distinct physical and human characteristics and their interactions define the Pacific Northwest as a region (Five Themes) • Standard : 3. The student observes and analyzes the interaction between people, the environment, and culture. • Area : 3.1 Identify and examine people’s interaction with and impact on the environment • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 3.1.1a Identify choices individuals have in how they interact with the environment (Human/ Environment Interaction, Region) • Area : 3.2 Analyze how the environment and environmental changes affect people • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 3.2.1a Describe how differing environments both provide varying opportunities and set limits for human activity (Human/Environment Interaction, Region, Place)  Performance Expectation : 3.2.1b Describe how people adapt to their environment to meet basic human needs and concerns (Human/ Environment Interaction, Region) • Area : 3.3 Examine cultural characteristics, transmission, diffusion, and interaction • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 3.3.1a Know that people are born into societies that consist of different racial, ethnic, religious, and/or social groups (Location, Region, Place)  Performance Expectation : 3.3.1b Identify the ways cultural traditions are expressed through artistic creations and use of the environment (Five Themes)  Performance Expectation : 3.3.1c Recognize the positive and negative outcomes that can result when people of different cultural backgrounds interact and understand how an awareness of cultural traditions can help in cross-cultural communication (Five Themes) • Division: History • Standard : 1. The student examines and understands major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history. • Area : 1.2 Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping United States, world, and Washington State history • Benchmark / Grade : Benchmark 1 – Grade 5  Performance Expectation : United States History- US1.2.1 Describe and compare patterns of life over time in the following historical periods: "Indian" cultures (prehistory to 1492) Worlds Meet: Western Europe, West Africa, the Americas Settlement and Colonization (1607-1776) Revolution and Constitution (1754-1789) U.S. Expansion (1776-1850 ) • Area : 1.3 Examine the influence of culture on United States, world, and Washington State history • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 1.3.1 Describe the contributions of people from various cultural groups to the development of local, Washington State, and U.S. history • Standard : 2. The student understands the origin and impact of ideas and technological developments on history. • Area : 2.1 Compare and contrast ideas in different places, time periods, and cultures, and examine the interrelationships between ideas, change, and conflict (cross reference with the themes and topics outlined under the United States, world, and Washington State history headings) • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 2.1.1 Explain how an idea has affected the way people live • Area : 2.2. Understand how ideas and technological developments influence people, culture, and environment • Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5  Performance Expectation : 2.2.1 Describe instances in which new technology has led to changes in values, beliefs, and attitudes