LESSON PLAN
Your Name
Kaitlin
Supervising Ms. Omobono
Monahan
Teacher
Grade/School Harrington Elementary School: Second
Grade
Lesson title
Native
Americans
Content
area
Time of
activities
One class
period
Duration of
Lesson/Unit
Food, Shelter, and
Culture of Native
American Tribes, with
a special focus on the
Wampanoag tribe.
Unit will last several
weeks.
1. Content Area:
The content of the lesson will include information about different Native
American Tribes. There will also be an area focused specifically on the
Wampanoag tribe which was located in Massachusetts.
2. Topic:
Students will learn about several different tribes, including what they eat,
where and in what type of houses they live in, the types of clothing they
wore, and how they got around from one place to another
3. Goals:
The goals of this lesson is to have the students have knowledge about
Different Native American Cultures, have a greater understanding of the
first inhabitants of the land and to become more aware of the diversity
around them.
4. Objectives:
 My students will be able to identify several different Native American tribes.
 My students will be able to distinguish between the different types of
dwellings Native American lived in.
 My students will be able to distinguish between hunter-gathering societies,
and agricultural Native American society.
 My students will be able to identify the different types of clothing Native
Americans wore.
 My students will be able to identify how different Native American tribes
traveled.

My students will be able to understand the differences between the cultures of
the past and today.
5. Technology, materials and aids:
The lesson will be supported by a website that I will create for the
students. The website will contain specific information on each tribe that
is covered and may have an activity.
6. Procedures/methods:
a. Overview: The lesson will be mainly focused around the website which
will be used as a classroom. I will make a brief introductory statement; and
then will begin to describe the differences between Native American
tribes. The students will be able to observe some of these difference such
as that of shelter through images on the website. The website will contain
all the pertinent information needed for the lesson.
b. Introduction: The lesson will begin by me saying a brief statement on
Native Americans: Such as how they were here before the first settlers,
and there culture plays an important part in out coutnry’s heritage.
c. Activities:
 Give a brief introduction: see above
 Introduce the students to the website; explain how I created it as a
supplement for the classroom lesson.
 Begin to discuss the different Native America Tribes
o Including:
 Navajo
 Sioux
 Iroquois
 Wampanoag
 There will be a special section focusing especially on the
Wampanoag tribe, which occupied this area of Massachusetts.
 Discuss the differences and similarities between the tribes:
geographic, food, shelter, clothing, and transportation.
 Maybe have an activity for the children to do so there can be active
learning.
 Conclude the lesson: closing remarks.
d. Follow-up: The second graders at the Harrington Elementary school are
doing a complete unit on Native American, and this lesson and website
will be continued upon.
7. Technology Frameworks:

Second graders learn world and United States history, geography,
economics, and government by studying more about who Americans are and
where they came from. They explore their own family’s history and learn
about distinctive achievements, customs, events, places, or landmarks from
long ago and from around the world. The chief purpose of the grade 2
curriculum is to help students understand that American citizenship
embraces all kinds of people, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion,
and national origin. American students come from all countries and
continents in the world. A history and social science curriculum should help
students acquire a common understanding of American history, its political
principles, and its system of government in order to prepare them for
responsible participation in our schools and civic life.

The influence of economic, political, religious, and cultural ideas as
human societies move beyond regional, national, or geographic
boundaries. The standards for grades 2, 3, and 4, as well as standards for
U.S. History I and II address the topic of immigration and its important role
in American history. The standards for grade 7, World History I, and World
History II address the encounters and conflicts between groups of people as
in modern Africa or Ireland, the Balkans, and Southeast Asia, and between
different civilizations, such as Islam and Christianity. The World History I
and II standards also address the growth of trade among nations and regions
as well as diplomatic, religious, and cultural interaction among civilizations
and nations.

The effects of geography on the history of civilizations and nations.
The concepts and skills sections in the elementary grades address the basic
terms of geography. The standards in the early grades address some of the
basic geography of the world and of the United States. The grade 6 standards
on world geography systematically address world geography, including the
relationship between geography and national economies. The standards,
concepts, and skills for Ancient History, World History I and II, and for U.S.
History I and II, address the relationship between geography and the rise and
central characteristics of civilizations and nations.