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Description
Overview
In this two-day lesson, students will study and be able to identify the distinct characteristics of the primary early American Indian tribes who lived in Texas prior to European exploration. Students will categorize information about each tribe into the categories: food, shelter, mobility, culture, and location in Texas.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What are the characteristics of various early American Indian tribes of Texas?
- How do the environmental differences between the regions affect how American Indian tribes lived across Texas?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Primary Sources Used
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
Student Activities
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Warm-up Day 1 – Exit Ticket Day 1
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students read general statements about tribal characteristics and determine which region would be most likely to contain tribes with those characteristics.
In this exit ticket, students choose one tribe they learned about in this lesson and write a sentence describing two the defining characteristics of this tribe using a sentence stem for structure.
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Warm-up Day 2 – Exit Ticket Day 2
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students consider what they learned about the tribes from the previous day’s lesson. They choose one tribe from one region and imagine what a day in the life of a person from that tribe might be like. They record their responses.
In this exit ticket, students examine an image of an American Indian woman and child drying corn to make inferences about what tribe they might be a part of, where they might live, etc.
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Slideshow
This ready-to-use classroom presentation contains the warm-up exercise (above), the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
This slideshow provides the reading passages that students will use to complete their student work.
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Grade Level Student Work
In this printable Chart assignment, students use the short reading passages in the slideshow which present information on each tribe in Texas to complete their chart.
Grade Level work requires students to complete a chart of the major Texas tribes by circling or highlighting the correct words or terms listed for the following categories: food, shelter, and mobility, then writing in information for culture. Students will also mark the location of each tribe on a map of Texas that provides the regional boundaries. Students will use a graphic organizer to compare two tribes of their choosing, then use that information to complete sentence stems comparing the two tribes.
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Foundation Student
Foundations level work requires students to complete a chart of the major Texas tribes by circling or highlighting from a list of options provided under the following categories: food, shelter, and mobility. Students will write their own notes for the category of culture, and then mark the location of each tribe on a map of Texas that provides the regional boundaries. Students will then use a word bank of significant terms to complete a section of fill-in-the-blank statements.
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Advanced Student
Advanced level work requires students to complete a chart of the major Texas tribes by recording information in the following categories: food, shelter, mobility, and culture. Students will also mark the location of each tribe on a map of Texas that provides the regional boundaries. Students will then write a paragraph comparing two tribes of their choosing. A graphic organizer is provided to organize information before writing.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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Sculpture in Caddo Mounds
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[Alligator in zoo]
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Soil map, reconnaissance survey, South Texas
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[Kiowa Belles of Anadarko]
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[Photograph of an adobe-style house in the mountains, 2]
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