She wrote:
"I bought some replica arrowheads at a Native American store
in Browning and then discuss hunting, arrows and such with the littles and let
them have the arrowheads to look at and hold. I show them the
process of making arrowheads through a YouTube video. They are then given model magic to create a replica of an arrowhead of their own. I once again explain this is not how the Natives made
them, but I want them to create the shape of the arrowheads made by Native
Americans.
I bought a bag of these plastic bear claws years ago.
I'm not sure where I even got them as they have lasted through several
classes! The K's love to make necklaces out of them. I add a choice
of beads for them and one bear claw. We look at Native pictures. We discuss
clothing and talk about how this was their jewelry.
I have also came across this template of a tepee. After looking at images of and discussing uses and facts of the tepee, I have
the little's design images on their tepee and they cut it out and we glue it
so that it stands up." She told me later she also has her students watch a YouTube video on setting up a tepee. I hadn't realized how useful YouTube could be!
I ran Shelley's activities by Mike Jetty over at the OPI's Indian Education Division, who stressed the importance of showing real tribal images with these activities while emphasizing tribal diversity (Essential Understanding #1). For example, he encouraged teachers to show pictures of different tribes' tepees and to talk with their students about the fact that different tribes set tepees up differently and have different cultural practices when it comes to decorating them as part of the model tepee activity.
Thank you, Shelly, for sharing these ideas and pictures! I know K-3 teachers across the state appreciate it as well.
No comments:
Post a Comment