Name:________________________________________

Poster & Paper Due Date:     _        Wednesday October 22  

Oral Presentation Due Date: _____ Wednesday October 22

Parent’s Signature:_______________________________  

 

Social Studies Native American Project

 

For this project you will be working on a Native American culture research paper, poster, and oral presentation.  You can share books, Internet addresses and other resources, but you must not plagiarize (copy) from your sources.  You will need to write down from where the information came as you take notes.  It is helpful if you organize your notes as you go.

 

You may choose from the following Native American groups:

 

Kwakiutl (Northwest Coast)

Sioux (Plains)

Pueblo (Southwest)

Iroquois (Eastern Woodlands)

 

You may use the library, my books, your textbook, or the internet to find information.  You may find information on Native Americans at the following web page http://www.quia.com/pages/hostetterna.html

 

 

1.     Each student is required to make a poster.  The poster should include a map of where your Native American group lived. A drawing or photograph of the home, food, tools, and clothing should also be depicted.  Include a picture of their art such as basket weaving, pottery, wampum belts, architecture, or totem poles. 

 

2.    Each student is required to type a 2  page paper.  Use font size 12 and double space. 

The paper should have a title page, outline and a bibliography.  The paper should also have an introduction, body and conclusion.  The body of the paper should contain topic sentences and supporting sentences.  These topics should be included in the paper: Location, homes, culture, clothing, food, and tools.  The bibliography should consist of at least 4 sources.  Two of the sources should be books/magazines.  Please refer to the bibliography on the following page for further clarification.

 

 

3.  The oral presentation should be about 5-10 minutes long. Use your poster in your presentation.  The oral presentation should cover the culture, location, home, food, clothing and tools.  The oral presentation can be done in any of these ways:          

            A. Create a videotape to show in class          

            B. Presentation using a computer program such as Hyperstudio or PowerPoint

            C. Web page

            D. Drama

            E. Prepare Native American food for class to sample

            F. Hand out a worksheet

            G. Art project

            H. Native American poetry or legend (story).

 

Other ideas as approved by the teacher.

 

Extra points will be given to students who dress as a Native American or use Native American music, drawings (Not the ones on the poster) or use homemade or bought Native American objects in their presentation. 

 

 

The outline should be the second page of your paper.  For your outline, write a topic sentence for each category in the outline.  Your outline should look similar to the one below:    

 

Outline

 

I.  Introduction

A. Location (areas or states) in which the tribe lived.  What was the climate?  What was the time period in which the tribe lived or thrived?

 

II.  Body

A.   Location: Where did this tribe live? What was the climate?

B.    Homes: Describe what their homes.

C.   Culture: What were their traditions, customs or religion?

D.   Clothing: What did their clothing look like?  What were their clothes made of?  Did children wear the same clothes as adults?

E.    Food: What did they eat?  How did they prepare or preserve it?  Did they hunt or farm?

F.     Tools: What kind of tools did they use?  What were the tools made of?  Who made them?

G.   Other Interesting Facts! Examples:  important leaders or people in your tribe, inventions or discoveries made by this tribe, etc.

 

III. Conclusion

A. Time period in which the tribe came to an end or if the tribe still exists, where?  Which reservation?  How has their lifestyle changed in the past 400 years?

            B. What caused the fall of the tribe?  (wars, disease, white invasion, drought or             unknown?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Title page should be the First Page of your paper.  It should be similar to the example shown below:

 

 

 

 

 

The Mohawks

 

 

 

By Robin Wood

Social Studies Class

Mr. Hostetter

September 27, 2000

 

 

 

Your Bibliography should be your Last page of your paper.  Remember you need at least FOUR different books/magazines/Internet etc.  Here is an example of what I expect to see for your bibliography: 

 

Bibliography

 

(Books)                        1. Last name, first name.  Title of Book.  City: Publishing Company, Year                                                           printed. 

           

                                    2. Boehme, Richard.  America’s Story.  Boston:  Harcourt, Brace and                                                      Company, 1996.

           

(Magazines/                3. Last name, first name.  “Title of article.”  Title of the magazine Date Encyclopedias)                           (day, month, year): Page numbers of the article.

 

                                    4. Pettingill, Olin Sewall, Jr. “Iroquois.”  World Book Encyclopedia.                                                                          1980. 

 

Internet                      5. Title of Web Page (Web Address)

 

                                    6. Aztecs (http://www.Aztecs.html)