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Native Americans...or as Christopher Columbus named them "Indians"

This week and next week, we are learning about Native Americans. So far we've covered the Woodland Indians and the Plains Indians. We've had fun so far learning about the different kinds of houses for Indians...such as wigwams, longhouses, etc., along with learning about wampum and warshields. We even went to the Red Clay Pow Wow and found someone with wampum earrings on and the girls got to see what wampum really looks like and the man told us that the shell that it comes from was cut under water. He told us about wampum being used as money for the Indians as well. We finished up the lesson on Indians with doing Hopi hairstyles and making Navajo fry bread. Learning about Indians was much more interesting than I remember as a little kid!
















This is our Indian Lapbook.

The girls made a key and mapped out where the different kinds of Indians lived.

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  1. Savannah McQueenNovember 20, 2011 at 7:19 AM

    What a gret hands on activity. They seemed to really enjoy themselves and I am sure that they will remember this for a very long time.

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