Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of American Indian history.
Image: Tȟatȟáŋka Waŋžíla, Custer's War, 1900. (The Minneapolis Institute of Art, 94.47.1)
Grade Level: 3–5
Recommended Time for Completion: Three 45-minute periods
Students will examine and analyze photographs of, poems by, and documents about American Indian experiences as European Americans migrated across the United States. They will use the knowledge gained through their analysis to write their own songs, poems, and letters. While the unit is intended to take three class periods, it is possible to complete the material in a shorter time frame.
Students will discuss how colonists and Wampanoags viewed land, nature, and life differently and how these differences shaped colonial America.
Students will read a range of primary sources to learn the passage and implementation of the Indian Removal Act.
Becoming the United States: Colonial America to Reconstruction (based on a traveling exhibition of the same name) is a collection of short narrated videos that will give your students an overview of key events and figures related to American history.
Video 05 will provide your students with a general introduction to American Indian history.
In these lectures, geared toward elementary and middle school teachers, scholars focus on the people, ideas, and events that made America into a cultural, social, and political reality.
Lecture by Denver Brunsman, Associate Professor of History, The George Washington University
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Lecture by Denver Brunsman, Associate Professor of History, The George Washington University
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Lecture by David Silverman, Professor of History, The George Washington University
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