Students use a poster and reference books to identify types of early American Indian dwellings. Each cooperative group designs a model of one type of early American Indian home from information provided on a card. The class completes a chart to compare early American Indian dwellings. Each cooperative group studies one type of home and presets its findings to the class. On a map of the United States, students list the special features of each type of home described by the groups.
Students observe houses in their school's neighborhood.
Groups collect pictures of houses from magazines and create Venn diagrams. Students determine which design might be most appropriate in the vicinity of their school, based on local climatic conditions. The class prepares milk cartons for Lesson 12. People use and affect natural resources. Students listen to the story, Just A Dream, by Chris Van Allsburg, and identify some of the ways people affect natural resources.