WORKSHEETS
Use this activity to teach your students about Native American culture. The worksheet provides students a list of…
ACTIVITIES
Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of an American Indian girl stranded on an island, alone, for 18 years. This…
Use this activity to teach children about Native American culture. After learning the essentials, students will create a…
This easy and fun craft activity was inspired by Native Americans of the Southwest. Include this resource in your…
Have your students read about the Navajo Code Talkers, and explore the related activity to learn more about this…
Use this guide to help you address the issues involved when introducing Native American music and culture to your class.
LESSON PLANS
Introduce students to a call-and-response form of Native American song and dance.
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Find images and information about Native American life in villages on the Great Plains of North America, including…
Words and rhythm notation for a Nanticoke women's dance, in Native American call-and-response form.
Use this resource to help students learn how Americans are indebted to Natives Americans for many cultural…
This worksheet is to be used in conjunction with the Wampanoag Thanksgiving lesson plan. It reviews facts about the…
Using the book, Stone Fox, students will explore character, setting, and issues for Native Americans in this multiple…
What were the origins of the first Thanksgiving? Students will look to the Wampanoag Indians' meaning of Thanksgiving…
DAILY WARM-UPS
In this printable warm-up, students read a short biography on Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe and answer reading…
One craft unique to the natives of the Northwest Coast is the making of blankets decorated with mother-of-pearl buttons.…
REFERENCE
In this printable reading warm-up, students learn about the life of an explorer. Use this short biography on Sacagawea…
In this music activity, students learn about Native American culture and make their own instruments: drums, rattles, and…
Connect mathematics and social studies with activities for Do You Know What Time It Is? by Robert E. Wells (about…
A list of Native American tribes by geographical area in the United States.
Review Native American-related vocabulary words with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.
BOOK GUIDES
Sign of the Beaver, written by Elizabeth George, is a timeless story about a boy in eighteenth-century Maine helped to…
Reference this chart of the regional music styles of Native American tribes.
Learn how Thanksgiving became a national holiday. Each educational video on the history of Thanksgiving is paired with…
The Iroquois Confederacy inspired many ideas in the United States Constitution. The reading passage in this printable…