1. Standards and purpose for learning
During this unit we will be learning about the First Americans. By exploring each of these First Americans, you will learn about how they had to use their environment for every basic need. You will learn about their physical features (the land), their climate, food, shelter, clothing and hunting.
Your guide for learning is based on the following Georgia Standards:
SS4H1 The student will describe how early Native American cultures developed in North America.
a. Locate where Native Americans settled with emphasis on the Arctic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plateau (Nez Perce), Southwest (Hopi), Plains (Pawnee), and Southeast (Seminole).
b. Describe how Native Americans used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.

2. Intro
The Native American Nations of North America cultivated the natural resources around them to provide food and housing materials.
They adapted to their environments, and their culture grew from those adaptations.
Just as the climate and geography of North America varies tremendously, so too did the cultural groups that scattered across our great continent.
Click to learn more about them.
******Make a field guide out of notebook paper to take notes. It should look like this: field guide

3. The First Americans
Inuit
Nez Perce
Kwakiutl
Pawnee
Hopi
Seminole

4. The Seminole The Seminoles: Lived in what is now known as Florida
Wore light clothing made of grass and thin cloth
Built roundhouses made of wooden poles covered with clay and bark, sometimes without walls called chickees.

5. The Pawnee The Pawnee: Grew corn, squash, and beans half of the year
Hunted buffalo during the other half of the year
Built permanent lodges using bark, earth, and grass

6. The Hopi
The Hopi
Lived in the low, flat desert and high plateaus of the dry Southwest
Grew beans, squash, and maize (corn )
Built large “pueblo” homes with many rooms
Were the first in the world to fire clay pottery

7. The Nez Perce The Nez Perce:
Lived in the plateaus and the valleys of what is now known as north central Idaho, Montana, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, an area of about seventeen million acres.
Traveled and fished along their many rivers every season.
Migrated to hunt and gather during summer and fall.

8. The Kwakiutl The Kwakiutl: Lived near the Pacific coast.
Built large homes from cedar trees.
Caught a surplus of salmon, which they dried and ate year-round

9. The Inuit
The Inuit
Lived in the extreme arctic climate of Northwest Canada
Traveled and fished along the ocean and seashore every season.
Built “igloo” homes out of ice and snow
Wore thick clothing made from caribou (reindeer) and seal hides

10. Performance Task
This performance task will be done individually as a way to show what you’ve learned. You may use resources such as your textbook and notes you’ve collected during the unit. This performance task is for a grade. ..\First Americans Performance Task.doc