Teaching Themes
Native American Heritage
Students can use these resources to research and understand Native American cultures.
Navajo Ways: A Level A Listen And Read Book
Grades 1–2 | Content Area Reading | Independent Reading | Listening and Speaking | Clothing
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Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Grades 9–12 | Native American | Native American Heritage Month
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Native American Inventions: A Level B Listen and Read BookGrades 1–2 | Early Reading | Computer Lab Activities | Interactive Whiteboard Activities | Listen and Read Activities Through photos, texts, and audio, early readers will discover a few entertaining and delicious items that were invented by Native Americans. Save To Organizer |
American IndiansGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Ceremony and Tradition | Exploration, Colonization and Settlement | Indigenous Peoples Find out about the original inhabitants of the Americas. Save To Organizer |
Native American Image BankPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Grades 9–12 Find more than 450 photos you can add to your reports, posters, or PowerPoint presentations. Save To Organizer |
American Indian Heritage MonthGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Culture and Diversity At the beginning of the 20th century, Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, began an effort to establish an American Indian Day. Parker,... Save To Organizer |
Pocahontas Book ReviewGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Native American In fifth grade, my class studied a lot about Jamestown, a 17th century English settlement in what is now Virginia. We also studied a little... Save To Organizer |
Native American ContributionsGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Articles | Communities and Ways of Life | Exploration, Colonization and Settlement Discover some of the many contributions Native Americans have made to world cultures. Save To Organizer |
Chief Bearheart TeachesGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | American History | Native American History | Social Studies Modern technology brought the past into the present to talk about the future when Kid Reporter Joseph O'Connor interviewed Perdido Bay... Save To Organizer |
Indian Tribes TodayGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Native American | Native American History See a list of the ten largest Indian tribes in the U.S. today and use an interactive map to find tribes in your state. Save To Organizer |
Canyon de Chelly National MonumentGrades 9–12 | Grades 6–8 | Native American History Provides information about Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona and the Native American tribes who dwelled there. Save To Organizer |
cliff dwellersGrades 9–12 | Grades 6–8 | Native American History Discusses the Native American tribes who built and lived in cave dwellings in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Save To Organizer |
Thanksgiving: Everything You NeedPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Everything You Need Students will see beyond "the kids' table," as they research the significance of Thanksgiving. Save To Organizer |
A Visit to Plimoth PlantationGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Colonial America | Native American | Native American History Kid Reporter Chloe Conway is given a tour of the Plimoth Plantation by Tahlia Jackson, a 12-year-old Wampanoag girl, and her family. Tahlia... Save To Organizer |
Native American CulturesGrades 6–8 | Grades 9–12 | Grades 3–5 | Online Learning Activities | Research Skills Students “visit” field sites to study the ancient and modern-day Native American cultures of New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. Save To Organizer |
Oral History of the Skagit River: A Native American Cultures ActivityGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Online Learning Activities | Main Idea and Details | Research Skills Students “visit” Washington State’s Skagit River, a threatened salmon-fishing river that is a vital part of local Native American life. Save To Organizer |
Activity Plan 5-6: Native American GamesPreK–K | Native American | Visual Arts Children engage in educational games and activities about the Native American culture. This ready-to-use teaching idea for five- and six-... Save To Organizer |
Be an Archaeologist: New Mexico's Spanish FrontierGrades 3–5 | Content Area Reading | Writing Activities | Lesson Plans | Literature Students draw from historical and community resources to organize the sequence of local historical events involved in the settlement of New... Save To Organizer |
If You Lived With the Indians of the Northwest Coast Lesson PlanGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Content Area Reading | Guided Reading | Independent Reading What was life like for Native American tribes along the northwest coast of the United States before the arrival of European settlers?... Save To Organizer |
Oral History of the Skagit River Watershed for Grades 4-8Grades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Journalism | Lesson Plans and Unit Plans | Public Speaking Students practice interviewing and the accurate reporting of information obtained from the interview. Save To Organizer |
Oral History of the Skagit River Watershed for Grades 9-10Grades 9–12 | Content Area Reading | Computer Lab Activities | Online Learning Activities | Writing Activities Students learn what the farming life was like near the Skagit River for their elders in earlier times. Save To Organizer |
Research Starters: Native American CulturesGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Research Skills | Native American Here are some research topics that relate to the Anasazi and Pueblo Indians and articles to help you start gathering information. Save To Organizer |


















