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Curriculum Aids
- Idaho Compass site
- How to build a table top tipi
- http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/indian/
- Knife River Early Village Life on the Plains site filled with activities, lesson plans, and instructions on how to teach with historic places. Great!
- http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=11684
- Lewis and Clark Then and Now: The Lifestyle of the Plains Indians. Lessons include: mapping tribal homelands; building a tipi; buffalo hide paintings; language of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara; and meeting the people of the plains. This is a site using historic places to teach history.
- www.emints.org site
- Site that gives information on shelters, games, timelines, etc. of the Plains Indians. Some printable materials are through www.teachervision.fen.com that requires membership to download worksheets. However, the
www.teachervision.fen.com site offers several free lesson plans, theme ideas, classroom management ideas, and much more. Looks very helpful!
- http://www.apples4theteacher.com/
- To use in this unit, click on Social Studies and then Cultures Around the World-Native Americans to access American Indian games, names, songs and dances, poems and rhymes, and American Indian tales and stories. This site also contains many other disciplines for teaching. Super site!
- http://www.proteacher.com
- This site provides teachers with a wide assortment of materials for any subject area. To use in this unit, click on History, Culture, Native Americans Today, Native American Heritage, Plains Region to find a wide assortment of information on the Plains Indians. Activities include learning to speak and write the Lakota language, a visit to the Knife River Indian Village including several illustrations, and lots more! Great site
- http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2003/2/03.02.03.x.html
- A complete Plains Indians’ Interdisciplinary Unit of Study by Erica Forti geared for first grade; however, there are some great ideas within it!
- http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/nd_intro.htm
- Introduction to North Dakota
