How are Native Americans like us?

Social Studies:

Third Grade Standard II: Students will understand cultural factors that shape a community.

Objective 1: Evaluate key factors that determine how a community develops.

a. Identify the elements of culture (e.g. language, religion, customs, and artistic expression).

b. Describe how stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture.

d. Identify and explain the interrelationship of the environment (e.g. location, natural resources, climate) and community development (e.g. shelter, clothing, industries, recreation, artistic creations).

Objective 2: Explain how selected indigenous cultures of the Americas have changed over time.

a. Describe and compare early indigenous people of the Americas (e.g. Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Great Basin, Southwestern, Arctic, Incan, Aztec, Mayan).

b. Analyze how these cultures changed with the arrival of people from Europe, and how the cultures of the Europeans changed.

Social Studies language students should know and use:

indigenous cultures, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Great Basin, Southwestern, Arctic, language, religion, customs, artistic expression, Europe

Language Arts:

4030-08 Standard VIII: Writing Students write daily to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.

4030-08-6 Objective 6: Write in different forms and genres.

a. Produce personal writing (e.g., journals, friendly notes and letters, personal experiences, family stories, literature responses).