Native American Groups 5th Grade Project

Groups Include:
Aztec, Maya, Inca, Mound Builders, Iroquis League, Eastern Woodland, Plains Indians, Cherokee, Southwest Desert including the Anasazi, Inuit, and the Northwest Coast Indians.

Task:
Students will pick one Native American group to research and then answer the questions below using the following Internet links to locate their answers.

Product:
Students will create a brochure in Microsoft Word using the information they located on the Internet.  The brochure will include information about their group and pictures.  Their brochure will be shared with the class so that everyone learns about the different groups of Native Americans.

Questions:
1.  Where was your tribe located?
2.  How did the Native American tribe meet their basic food needs?
3.  How did they meet their basic shelter needs?  (What did they live in?)
4.  What did this group of Native Americans wear?
5.  How did they travel--in other words what type of transportation was used by the tribe?
6.  What forms of art or architecture did this group develop?
7.  Everyone likes to have fun!  What did the Indians do for recreation?
8.  What advancements in science did this group provide or what did they use for medicines?

Links:
 

Group	Shelter	Food	Located	Clothing	Transportation	Art	Recreation	Science
Aztez	Look in paragraph 8	Growing Food	Where did they live	Look at paragraph 7		Sculptures or Aztec City	Dance or Music in paragraph 9
Maya	Housing	Look under Economy & Society	Look at paragraph about regions	Clothing or More about their clothing		Look at History for Architecture or Types of art, be sure to scroll down and click on links for pictures of their art	Play Bul! or Games	What did they chart & what were they masters of?
Inca	Family life and what they lived in	Scroll and read about agriculture and food or 4th paragraph for Food or More on food	Read 1st paragraph for where they lived or Location or Another site about where they lived	Description and picture	How they traveled round their empire or 4th paragraph for animal they traveled on or Read next to last paragraph	Inca city showing their architecture or Pottery & Sculptures or Picture and description	What was important?  Read paragraph six.	Contributions to medicine and what they used in 4th paragraph
Group	Shelter	Food	Located	Clothing	Transportation	Art	Recreation	Science
Plains	Their home or Shelter or Sioux shelter	What they ate or Food or Sioux Food	Where they lived	Look at paragraph 3 or picture of clothing or Clothing of Sioux	Look towards the bottom, where it says, "Now, a neat story" or Sioux tranportation	What did they use to decorate with--look at bottom of screen.	Sioux or Plains Indians Recreation
Inuit	What did they live in? or Their home or More info	What they ate  or Food	Where they lived or Location	What they wore or Clothes	How they travel	Their art	What they do for fun
Mound Builders	Picture of their homes	Their food or Food--look at bottom of screen	Where they lived	Look under "Customs"	Read what is in orange	Click on links at left to see their beads, pottery, etc.		Tools--read what is in orange
Iroquois	What they lived in or Housing	Scroll down and look by picture of the deer for their food or Food	Where they lived or Location	Scroll down for info on clothing or Clothes	Look at the pictures to see how they traveled	Their art	Played many games
Group	Shelter	Food	Located	Clothing	Transportation	Art	Recreation	Science
Cherokee	Look under culture for a description of their housing or Housing	What did they eat or Food	Scroll down a little for location or Lived	What did they wear or Clothes	Method of travel	Scroll down and click on the "Cherokee" link.  Look for the picture of the women to see what they made.	Look for the sentence that says "One custom all these tribes kept..." or For fun
Anasazi	What they lived in	Scroll down to found out what they ate or Food	Location	Clothes or More on clothes	Road System	Jewelry	For fun
Northwest Coast	Living Quarters	Meals	Scroll down and read the Introduction		Canoe		Potlatch	Interesting Facts