Native American WebQuest for 5th grade Social Studies

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Native American WebQuestfor 5th grade Social
Studies
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Introduction
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Our school has an exciting opportunity! It has
been chosen as the site of a new museum! This
museum will show how Native Americans lived from
about 1500 to the 1800's. We need your help to
make this museum a great success!
You have been hired as a museum curator. It will
be your job to research and help set up a
display of an Indian Tribe for the Native
American Museum.
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Task
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Your task is to research a North American tribe
and to make some things that depict the daily
life of that tribe. You will add these things to
the museum display of the Native Americans of
one of five Native American cultures of the
United States. The five cultures we will be
considering are the Indians of the Northwest
Coast, the Southwest, the Plains, the Northeast,
and the Southeast. You might make a diorama
clothing- dress a cardboard silhouette a
house jewelry weapon baskets or pottery a
miniature rug or blanket a map showing where
your tribe lived a replica of a useful animal
anything that would show something interesting
about their way of life You will write an informa
tion display card for the objects you have made.
You will also give an oral tour of your
particular section of the museum.
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Process
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First, you will be placed in museum team groups
of two or three. Each person in the group will
use an information chart to record the facts
you will need. Each person will have a checklis
t to insure that all the work has been
completed. I am the museum director. I will all
ow your team to choose on which display you
will be working. Choose one (Native American
Regions) Northwest Coast
Southwest Plains Northeast
Southeast Print out Information Sheets (1) (2)
(3) to record the information you find. (This
copy will be a rough draft.) Use your Checklist
to stay on task!
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On yellow lined paper, rewrite the information
from your Information Sheets in complete
sentences. Edit this copy with the help of the
Museum Director. Now, to display all this infor
mation glue 9 folded pieces of white paper to
a large piece of poster paper. On the front of
each little "door" write one of the categories
that is on your Information Sheets, (Location,
Shelters, etc.) and draw a picture to go with
that category. Open the little "door" and copy
the information for that category from your
yellow sheet. Use your best handwriting! Wa-La! a
beautiful way to share all the information
you have found! Choose a project to add to the
display. Fill out a plan sheet for your project
to be approved by the Museum Director
(that's me!) Gather the items you will need for
your project. Complete the project. Write a
display card for your project.
When the display is complete, give the museum
director a tour of your display.
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Resources
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Found on Mrs. McConnells website
http//lm107.k12.sd.us/welcome.htm
Go to the Social Studies section.
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Evaluation
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You will be "paid" for your work on this museum
project. You can earn up to 100 in play money
for the job that you do. 100 is worth a grade
of 100 in my grade book. Here is how you will be
evaluated for the pay you will receive
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Conclusion
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We will have an exciting, interesting museum of
Native American daily life when the WebQuest
has been completed.
WebQuest written byCarolyn Wiseman
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WebQuestChecklist
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