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Social Studies Native American Project
For this project you will be working on a Native American
culture research paper, poster, and oral presentation. You can
share books, Internet addresses and other resources, but you
must not plagiarize (copy) from your sources. You will need to
write down from where the information came as you take notes.
It is helpful if you organize your notes as you go.
You may choose from the following Native American groups:
Kwakiutl (Northwest Coast)
Sioux (Plains)
Pueblo (Southwest)
Iroquois (Eastern Woodlands)
You may use the library, my books, your textbook, or the
internet to find information. You may find information on
Native Americans at the following web page
http://www.quia.com/pages/hostetterna.html
1. Each student is required to make a poster. The poster should
include a map of where your Native American group lived. A
drawing or photograph of the home, food, tools, and clothing
should also be depicted. Include a picture of their art such
as basket weaving, pottery, wampum belts, architecture, or
totem poles.
2. Each student is required to handwrite (very neatly!) or type
approximately a 2 page paper. Use font size 12 and double
space if you type your paper.
The paper should have a title page, outline and a
bibliography. The paper should also have an introduction,
body and conclusion. The body of the paper should contain
topic sentences and supporting sentences. These topics should
be included in the paper: Location, homes, culture, clothing,
food, and tools. The bibliography should consist of at least
4 sources. Two of the sources should be books/magazines.
Please refer to the bibliography on the following page for
further clarification.
3. The oral presentation should be about 5-10 minutes long. Use
your poster in your presentation. The oral presentation should
cover the culture, location, home, food, clothing and tools.
The oral presentation can be done in any of these ways:
A. Create a videotape to show in class
B. Explain appropriate artifacts or replicas that you may
have from your group.
C. Web page
D. Drama
E. Prepare Native American food for class to sample
F. Hand out a worksheet
G. Art project
H. Native American poetry or legend (story).
Other ideas as approved by the teacher.
Extra points will be given to students who dress as a Native
American or use Native American music, drawings (Not the ones on
the poster) or use homemade or bought Native American objects in
their presentation.
The outline should be the second page of your paper.
For your
outline, write a topic sentence for each category in the
outline.
Your outline should look similar to the one below:
Outline
I. Introduction
class)
II.
(We will go over a good introduction in
Body
A. Location: Where & when did this tribe live? What was the
climate?
B. Homes: Describe their homes.
C. Culture: What were their traditions, customs or religion?
D. Clothing: What did their clothing look like? What were
their clothes made of? Did children wear the same
clothes as adults?
E. Food: What did they eat? How did they prepare or
preserve it? Did they hunt or farm?
F. Tools: What kind of tools did they use? What were the
tools made of? Who made them?
G. Other Interesting Facts! Examples: important leaders or
people in your tribe, inventions or discoveries made by
this tribe, etc.
III. Conclusion
A. Time period in which the tribe came to an end or if the
tribe still exists, where?
Which reservation?
How has
their lifestyle changed in the past 400 years?
B. What caused the fall of the tribe?
white invasion, drought or
unknown?)
(wars, disease,
C.
We will go over a really good way to end in class.
Your Title page should be the First Page of your paper.
should be similar to the example shown below:
It
The Kwakiutl
By Robin Wood
Social Studies
Block 2 Eb
September 27, 2004
Your Bibliography should be your Last page of your paper.
Remember you need at least FOUR different
books/magazines/Internet etc. Here is an example of what I
expect to see for your bibliography:
Bibliography
(Books)
1. Last name, first name.
Publishing Company, Year
2. Boehme, Richard.
Harcourt, Brace and
Title of Book. City:
printed.
America’s Story. Boston:
Company, 1996.
(Magazines/
3. Last name, first name. “Title of
article.” Title of the magazine Date Encyclopedias)
(day, month, year): Page numbers of the article.
4. Pettingill, Olin Sewall, Jr. “Iroquois.”
World Book Encyclopedia.
1980.
Internet
5. Title of Web Page (Web Address)
6. Aztecs (http://www.Aztecs.html)