Group Size:
Individual

Summary:
Students will learn about the contributions from Utah Indian tribes.

Materials:

Online Videos

• Contributions
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Attachments

• Contribution_List.pdf
  
• Contribution_Utah_Indians.pdf
  

Background For Teachers:
This is the third of four lessons in the Fourth Grade American Indian History Lesson Plan Unit:

• AIH-1: Life for the First Inhabitants
• AIH-2: Five Utah Indian Tribes
• AIH-3: Utah Indian Contributions
• AIH-4: Utah Indian - Future Changes

Teacher Resources:

• A Teacher's Guide for the Maps & Charts of Conquest of Indian America (in revision), Utah Office of Education, 1988
• American Indian Contributions to the World, by Kay Marie Porterfield and Emory Dean Keoke

Instructional Procedures:
Essential Question: What contributions are with us today?

1. Using the Contribution List (pdf), students will fill in a Contribution Web (pdf). Discuss some of the contributions that students use in their lives.
   • Sports
   • Location names
   • Food / survival
   • Medicine
   • Plants / seeds
   • Storage
   • Arts
   • Oral stories / beliefs
     • Activate background knowledge of students by sharing in a whole group situation (read-aloud) to the class. Find a book that is related to any of the topics listed. Some materials are available from San Juan School District

       Creation story from a Utah Tribe - Coyote Steals Fire – A Shoshone Tale Retold and Illustrated by The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Utah State University Press ISBN-10:0-87421-618-4

       Moccasin Story Five Stories adapted from Five Utah Tribes of Utah (CD available Fall 2006)

2. Research the web, using a search engine such as Google.com or Dibdabdoo.com to create an oral presentation or PowerPoint presentation on a contribution of the student’s choice. Many Native American games are fun for students to participate in. A group could learn how to play the stick game and teach the class how to play it. (See resources below.)
   Resources for Research (teacher information):
   • Teachers.net Lesson Plan
   • SURWEB - For Pictures
   • MarcoPolo Lesson Plan Research
   • Sirs Discoverer - Link from Pioneer Libary
   Resources for research about Native American Games (student information):
   • Native American games BYU Education -The Museum of Peoples and Cultures
   • NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
   Resources for Dine’ String Games:
   • Dine’ String Games

Online Videos

• Contributions
  56k Modem | Broadband

Extensions:

Attachments

• string.gif
  

Bibliography:
Utah State Office of Education
Social Studies Enhancement Committee
American Indian History

Lesson Plan Writers:

• Venita Tavepont - Ute
• Gennie Kirch
• Don Mose - Navajo
• Loya Arrum - Ute
• Judy Wedgeland
• Candice Turpin
• Eileen Quintana - Navajo

Author:
Utah LessonPlans

Created Date :
Jan 18 2005 10:51 AM