Native American Arts and Cultures

by Dona Herweck, Teacher Created Materials, Dona Herweck Rice

Learn about the traditional arts and cultures of Native Americans through hands-on activities. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557346194
• ISBN13: 9781557346193
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 9 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Wonderful resource to teach about Native Americans.

If you want to teach your students about Native American Indians, you will love this book. Although it is aimed at Primary level, I personally think it will work best specifically for grades 1-4. It is different from other books in the way it is organized. Instead of talking about a different tribe or a different tribal region in each chapter, it talks about a different aspect of life in each chapter and gives an overview of how that feature was developed by the different tribes. Some of the chapters are: Homes and Lodges, Food, Animals in Life and Legend, Transportation, Clothing and Jewelry, Toys and Games. Each chapter starts with a couple of pages of information about the topic and provides examples for each tribal region and for some specific tribes. Afterwards, each chapter contains lots of reproducible activities that will help the students reinforce what they just studied in a fun, hands-on way. For instance, in the chapter of Homes and Lodges, students will make a Southwest pueblo pop-up, a 3-D tepee, and a booklet of Native American dwellings and shelters among other things.For the chapter of Animals in Life and Legend, students will color and cut out a small Totem Pole, a herd of buffaloes, a puzzle of a Grizzly Bear, a Flying Eagle puppet, a board game of animal tracks and much more. I highly recommend this book for all teachers who really want kids to enjoy learning about our wonderful origins and traditions.