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Native American Heritage: Everything You Need

Students can use these resources to research and understand Native American cultures.

Lesson Plans, Book Resources Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast Lesson Plan Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Using nonfiction the nonfiction book, Giving Thanks, students will learn about feasting days shared by English settlers and Wampanoag Indians in... Read more >	Lesson Plans, Writing Activities, Book Resources 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, Book Resources The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Lesson Plan Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 "A rhythmic and evocative retelling of an Indian legend that explains the origin of the Indian paintbrush flower. An engaging tale of strength,... Read more >	Lesson Plans, Book Resources Sacajawea Lesson Plan Grades: 6–8 Taken captive from her Shoshone people, married to a foreigner, and a mother by age 16, Sacajawea is chosen to join the Lewis and Clark expedition... Read more >
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Walk Two Moons Lesson Plan Grades: 6–8 In the book, Teaching With Favorite Newbery Books, author (and teacher) Lori Licciardo-Musso has developed a variety of creative curriculum ideas... Read more >	Discussion Guides, Book Resources The Journal of Jesse Smoke Discussion Guide Grades: 6–8 The terrors of the Trail of Tears are revealed through the fictionalized journals of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee boy whose intelligence and diligence... Read more >
Articles, Online Learning Activities Internet Field Trip: Before the Pilgrims Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Provides Web sites with information on the peoples before the pilgrims. The Vikings, the Pueblo Indians, and the Wampanoag are featured. Read more >	Discussion Guides, Book Resources Code Talker Discussion Guide Grades: 6–8 After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the... Read more >
Extension Activities, Book Resources Code Talker Extension Activity Grades: 6–8 After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the... Read more >	Lesson Plans, Book Resources Teaching With Pourquoi Tales Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Pourquoi tales are used thematically to make many subject connections through different activities. Provides a bibliography of sources and a... Read more >
Discussion Guides, Writing Activities, Book Resources Sign of the Beaver Lesson Plan Grades: 3–5 Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in 18th century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive, until local Indians teach him their... Read more >	Lesson Plans, Writing Activities 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 >
Lesson Plans, Writing Activities Why People Move Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Students focus on the theme of migration. They learn the variety of reasons why groups of people, and the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest... 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 >
Lesson Plans, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities 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 >	Discussion Guides, Book Resources Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets Discussion Guide Grades: 6–8 A discussion guide to Weetamoo, Heart of the Pocassets: Massachusetts — Rhode Island, 1653 by Patricia Clark Smith in the Royal Diaries historical... Read more >
Discussion Guides, Writing Activities, Authors and Illustrators, Book Resources My Heart Is on the Ground Discussion Guide Grades: 6–8 A discussion guide to My Heart is on the Ground (Hardcover): The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania,... Read more >	Book Resources The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow Discussion Guide Grades: 3–5 A discussion guide to The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864 by Ann Turner in the Dear America... Read more >
Book Resources Native American Cultures Books and Resources Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Books and resources on Native Americans and related topics. Read more >	An Interview with Joseph Bruchac about The Journal of Jesse Smoke Grades: 6–8 Joseph Bruchac was interviewed about The Journal of Jesse Smoke, A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838, in the My Name is America historical... Read more >