Native American Dolls

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Native American Dolls

Description:

This lesson plan presents the perspectives and experiences of Native American doll makers describing how their work is keeping old traditions and developing new ones. Students will explore explore ways that dolls can be important, how different regions influence types of Native dolls, and the histories of various Native tribes.

Education Levels:

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Subject:

History, Geography

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

PDF

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

Smithsonian Institution

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Keywords:

Dolls, American Indians, Navajo, Inupiat, Ojibwe, Seneca, Seminole, Climates

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies

Is Part Of:

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

History, Geography

Instructional Methods

Assessment Method:

Informal assessment

Interaction Method:

Heterogeneous grouping

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

National Standards for History, Revised Edition, 1996 (1996)

Standards in History for Grades K-4 (Content Standards)

Topic 1: Living and Working Together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago

STANDARD 1
Family life now and in the recent past; family life in various places long ago.

Standard 1B: The student understands the different ways people of diverse racial, religious, and ethnic groups, and of various national origins have transmitted their beliefs and values.

Explain the ways that families long ago expressed and transmitted their beliefs and values through oral traditions, literature, songs, art, religion, community celebrations, mementos, food, and language. [Obtain historical data]

Broad Correlation

National Standards for History, Revised Edition, 1996 (1996)

Standards in History for Grades K-4 (Content Standards)

Topic 1: Living and Working Together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago

STANDARD 2
The history of students' own local community and how communities in North America varied long ago.

Standard 2B: The student understands how communities in North America varied long ago.

Compare and contrast the different ways in which early Hawaiian and Native American peoples such as the Iroquois, the Sioux, the Hopi, the Nez Perce, the Inuit, and the Cherokee adapted to their various environments and created their patterns of community life long ago. [Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas]

Broad Correlation

National Standards for History, Revised Edition, 1996 (1996)

United States History Standards for Grades 5-12 (Content Standards)

Era 1
Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)

Standard 1: Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450

Standard 1A
The student understands the patterns of change in indigenous societies in the Americas up to the Columbian voyages.

Explain the common elements of Native American societies such as gender roles, family organization, religion, and values and compare their diversity in languages, shelter, labor systems, political structures, and economic organization. [Analyze multiple causation]

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