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Fort Larned National Historic Site
No Pot of Gold
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Journey downt he Santa Fe Trail with seven-year-old Marion Sloan as she, her mother and her brother head to California.
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
Timucua Pottery
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will create their own pottery using flour, salt, water, and cream of tartar, and will decorate their pottery with natural materials.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Essential question: How did the ancestral Pueblos make their pottery? What did they use to paint their pottery, and how did they choose their designs? Students will be able to: Identify the stylistic attributes of Acoma, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara pottery and distinguish between the traditional Acoma, Jemez, San Ildefonso, and Santa Clara pottery design motifs and forms. Recognize and create similar objects and stylistic motifs
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
Coiled pot
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Arts, Crafts, Clothing and Appearance: Flint, Pottery, Painting
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Hidatsas and Mandans made tools, housewares, clothing, toys, and musical instruments from things that were available nearby or sometimes farther off if the material was important in the production of the item. In this lesson, students will tell a story by designing a buffalo robe like people did during Knife River Village days and they will discuss and portray how people might describe the life-ways of today one hundred years from the present using their media of choice.
Arches National Park
Cultural Contributions
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In the classroom, students observe artifacts and discuss clues artifacts provide about the lives of people who lived near Moab in the past. On the field trip, students make their own pottery, cordage, and petroglyph replicas.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
The O'odham
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will read short articles and then participate in simulated O'odham cultural activities to include an O’odham language lesson and role-playing various daily tasks such as food preparation, games, weaving and pot making. Students will place a fictional O'odham village along a Santa Cruz River map while using their knowledge of cultural needs and climate restrictions. They will describe the advantages of their chosen site and draw a sketch of their village
Grand Canyon National Park
Native Art and Activism of the Grand Canyon
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The area known today as the Grand Canyon has been home to people for over 13,000 years, with 11 contemporary tribes having links to the area. Many individuals in these tribes have inspired their own communities, and the country, with their traditional art. Some tribal members have bestowed historic structures around the canyon with their artwork, while others have utilized art as one of many tools towards activism and uplifting their communities.