In Social Studies we read about the early Native American Tribes of North America. How scientists believe the first peoples on the American continent came across the land bridge that is now the Bering Strait, and over the course of thousands of years, settled the many environments of North and South America. We also read about those different environments and how the different tribes that formed learned to adapt. We spent days reading and writing and drawing about the homes and artifacts of tribes stretching from Alaska, the Inuits, across the middle of the Great Plains, where the Sioux lived, to the Woodland Indians of the east, such as the Algonquins, to those like the Hopi who lived in the dry environments of the southwest.
Then on Tuesday 5th graders spent hours designing and building Native American homes in a hands-on project. We teachers had been saving up recyclable materials, plus other materials such as straws, sticks, toothpicks, cloth, paper, etc, etc, etc. Students were assigned a different house to build and needed to use the supplies along with tape and glue and paint, to create their homes, plus surroundings if time. Boy did they work hard!! Such great ideas, amazing teamwork, and final products. Check them out in the case outside room 120, and here are a few pics.
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