Native American Heritage: Everything You Need

Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Listen and Read Activities Native American Inventions: A Listen and Read Book, Level B Grades: 1–2 Through photos, texts, and audio, early readers will discover a few entertaining and delicious items that were invented by Native Americans. Read more >	American Indians Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Find out about the original inhabitants of the Americas. Read more >
Articles Native American Image Bank Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Find more than 450 photos you can add to your reports, posters, or PowerPoint presentations. Read more >	American Indian Heritage Month Grades: 3–5, 6–8 At the beginning of the 20th century, Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, began an effort to establish an American Indian Day. Parker, who was... Read more >
Pocahontas Book Review Grades: 3–5, 6–8 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 about... Read more >	Articles Native American Contributions Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Discover some of the many contributions Native Americans have made to world cultures. Read more >
Chief Bearheart Teaches Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Modern technology brought the past into the present to talk about the future when Kid Reporter Joseph O'Connor interviewed Perdido Bay Tribe of... Read more >	Indian Tribes Today Grades: 3–5, 6–8 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. Read more >
Canyon de Chelly National Monument Grades: 6–8, 9–12 Provides information about Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona and the Native American tribes who dwelled there. Read more >	cliff dwellers Grades: 6–8, 9–12 Discusses the Native American tribes who built and lived in cave dwellings in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Read more >
Everything You Need Thanksgiving: Everything You Need Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Students will see beyond the kids table, as they research the significance of Thanksgiving. Read more >	A Visit to Plimoth Plantation Grades: 3–5, 6–8 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 talked... Read more >
Online Learning Activities Native American Cultures Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Students “visit” field sites to study the ancient and modern-day Native American cultures of New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. Read more >	Online Learning Activities Oral History of the Skagit River: A Native American Cultures Activity Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Through field reports and interviews, students discover how the Skagit River is closely linked to the lives of the people in the valley. Read more >
Articles Native American Games Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 A ready-to-use teaching idea about Native American culture that supports cooperation, social studies, and literacy skills Read more >	Writing Activities, Lesson Plans Be an Archaeologist: New Mexico's Spanish Frontier Grades: 3–5 Students draw from historical and community resources to organize the sequence of local historical events involved in the settlement of New Mexico... Read more >
Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans If You Lived With the Indians of the Northwest Coast Lesson Plan Grades: 3–5, 6–8 What was life like for Native American tribes along the northwest coast of the United States before the arrival of European settlers? Details from... Read more >	Lesson Plans and Unit Plans Oral History of the Skagit River Watershed for Grades 4-8 Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Students practice interviewing and the accurate reporting of information obtained from the interview. Read more >
Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Lesson Plans Oral History of the Skagit River Watershed for Grades 9-10 Grades: 9–12 Students learn what the farming life was like near the Skagit River for their elders in earlier times. Read more >	Research Starters: Native American Cultures Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Here are some research topics that relate to the Anasazi and Pueblo Indians and articles to help you start gathering information. Read more >