Native American WebQuest for 5th grade Social Studies Introduction Task Process Resources Evaluation Conclusion

Introduction Our school has an exciting opportunity! It has been chosen as the site of a new museum! This museum will show how Native Americans lived from about 1500 to the 1800's. We need your help to make this museum a great success! You have been hired as a museum curator. It will be your job to research and help set up a display of an Indian Tribe for the Native American Museum.

Task Your task is to research a North American tribe and to make some things that depict the daily life of that tribe. You will add these things to the museum display of the Native Americans of one of five Native American cultures of the United States. The five cultures we will be considering are the Indians of the Northwest Coast, the Southwest, the Plains, the Northeast, and the Southeast. You might make: * a diorama * clothing- dress a cardboard silhouette * a house * jewelry * weapon * baskets or pottery * a miniature rug or blanket * a map showing where your tribe lived * a replica of a useful animal * anything that would show something interesting about their way of life You will write an information display card for the objects you have made. You will also give an oral tour of your particular section of the museum.

Process First, you will be placed in museum team groups of two or three. Each person in the group will use an information chart to record the facts you will need. Each person will have a checklist to insure that all the work has been completed. I am the museum director. I will allow your team to choose on which display you will be working. Choose one: Northwest Coast Southwest Plains Northeast Southeast Print out Information Sheets (1) (2) (3) to record the information you find. (This copy will be a rough draft.) Use your Checklist to stay on task!

On yellow lined paper, rewrite the information from your Information Sheets in complete sentences. Edit this copy with the help of the Museum Director. Now, to display all this information glue 9 folded pieces of white paper to a large piece of poster paper. On the front of each little "door" write one of the categories that is on your Information Sheets, (Location, Shelters, etc.) and draw a picture to go with that category. Open the little "door" and copy the information for that category from your yellow sheet. Use your best handwriting! Wa-La! a beautiful way to share all the information you have found! Choose a project to add to the display. Fill out a plan sheet for your project to be approved by the Museum Director (that's me!) Gather the items you will need for your project. Complete the project. Write a display card for your project. When the display is complete, give the museum director a tour of your display.

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Evaluation You will be "paid" for your work on this museum project. You can earn up to $100 in play money for the job that you do. $100 is worth a grade of 100 in my grade book. Here is how you will be evaluated for the pay you will receive:

WebQuest written by Carolyn Wiseman Conclusion We will have an exciting, interesting museum of Native American daily life when the WebQuest has been completed. WebQuest written by Carolyn Wiseman