Elementary Lesson
Media Coordinator Name: Vern Guarino
Lesson Plan Title: A Native American PBL Unit
Grade Level: 5th Grade
Time Required: 3-4 Weeks
Essential Questions: Who are the Native Americans and what are their traditions?
Description of Lesson: This is a cross curricular unit on three southwest Native
American Tribes: The Hopi, The Zuni and The Navajo. Students will view a video clip
of North American Native Americans as an overview. Students will research their
assigned tribe according to requirements on their research fact sheet. Research skills
will be taught and practiced in the classroom before starting actual research. Students
will prepare an online picture story book that they will read to a K-1 class after they
receive the completed paperback version of their story. Students will create traditional
Native American homes of their particular tribe out of natural resources. Students will
read Blood on the River in their language arts classes and connect to their research.
Navajo speaker will visit students.
North Carolina Essential Standards and Common Core Standards:
Math
Science
Social Studies
5.H.1; 5.G.1; 5&G.1; 5.C.1
Language Arts
5.RL.1-6 and 10
Information/Technology 5.SI.1; 5 IN.1; 5.TT.1; 5.RP.1; 5.SE.1
Other
Bibliography:
Internet Links
http://www.bigorrin.org;
http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/NativeAmericans
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/elementary/index.htm
http://www.facts4me.com/
http://www.studentpublishing.com/
Printed Resources
Video Resources
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/history-kids/nativeamericans-kids/
Native peoples of the southwest
Call #: DVD 979.004 NAT
produced by Mazzarella Bros.
Productions, Inc. ; writer, Cassandra Morris ; producer, Tony
Mazzarella.
Published 2006
Interest Level: Young Adult
Nonfiction/ Fiction
Titles
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone
Anything else:
Research Fact Sheet