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Did you know America was not always dominated by major highways and buildings? A long time ago the Native Americans were the dominant population and in order to survive they lived off the land.
Today, you will be taking a journey through time to better understand life as an early Native
American. You will live with a tribe and learn their ways. This experience will help you answer the question, what was life like as an early Native American?
Nicole Haworth: nhaworth01@bellarmine.edu

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You will be looking for information on the internet about how an early Native American tribe survived. At the end of your visit I want you to complete one of the following tasks.
1. Write a journal entry about daily life as a Native American.
2. Draw and/or create artifacts to bring back from your journey. I will provide all the necessary crafts for this task.
3. Organize all the information you gained from your journey on a poster.

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In order to complete one of the tasks, you will be working in groups of 4-5. Together you will follow the three steps below, in order, to complete one of the three assigned tasks.
Step 1
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Step 3

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Area Questions to Ask Yourself
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Number of Items
Identified
Description of Items
Writing
Creativity
Did you identify all five items from
Step 2?
Did you describe all five items from
Step 2?
Did you check for spelling and grammatical errors? (5 pts.)
Was your work original? (5 pts.)
Was your work unique?
Collaboration
Did you work cooperatively? (5 pts.)
Did you actively participate? (5 pts.)
Total Points Possible
10
10
10
10
10
50

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Congratulations, time traveler! You have successfully completed your journey through time to better understand life as a Native
American. This experience has allowed you to identify and describe an early Native
American tribe.
Now that you are familiar with the tribe you
chose, you can go back to Step 1 of the
process page. Look up information on a different tribe, then compare and contrast the two. This will allow you to understand the similarities and differences between the people during that time period.

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This WebQuest is intended for fifth graders during a
Social Studies unit. This activity introduces students to the cultures and societies that formed throughout
America’s history. Kentucky Core Academic
Standard, SS-05-2.1.1 is met and states: Students will identify early cultures (e.g., English, Spanish,
French, West African) in the United States and analyze their similarities and differences.
The objective for this activity is: Students will identify and describe an early Native American tribe.
Student’s with special needs will have accommodations for this activity. The amount of workload for students at a lower learning level will be made. Also students who are struggling writers can describe the five items to me orally.

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Choose one of the following tribes to visit. Click on the tribe to gain information, so you can better understand how to live as one of them.
Click here for additional websites that contain
more information.
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Look on the websites I provided for information about each tribe. In order to survive in their tribe you should look for the following information:
1. Their geographic region
2. The clothes they wore
3. The food they ate
4. The shelter they built
5. The traditions they practiced
After you have identified the above items, I want you to describe them.

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After you have gathered your information you must complete one of the three tasks that I assigned on the task page. Put your minds together to complete the task and use as much creativity as possible!
If you choose to complete drawing and craft task, you still need to be able to describe the elements of the item on index cards.

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This website contains information on the Iroquois and Seminole tribes.
Click here for more information on the
Sioux.
Click here for more information on the
Hopi.
Click here for more information on the
Chinook.