Moving People: Part 2
Lesson #: 10
Grade: 4th
Subject Area: Social Studies
Context
Materials
Introduction/Investment
For this lesson, we will keep the simulation going but there will only be America using all the space. At the beginning, have half of the class being American Indians and the other half being European Americans. The purpose of this is to show the students the movement of American Indians at the hand of the European Americans.
Start the simulation from Lesson #9 at its final point. It should have something very similar to all the blues huddled around a few number of desks. Try and have the students discover why they ended up there.
Content
For this lesson, the content that is important will be the different phases of taking land and the treaties that related to American Indians.
The important concepts for the content are:
Whole-Class Activity
For the whole class activity, it will be the walking through of the content and doing the simulation with each passing legislation or act against American Indians by the US or Europeans.
With each action, you should ask the students to talk about what it feels like to have that happen to them. This simulation is meant to dive into the affective aspects of the students learning and offer them something that they can grasp onto and use as their framework for looking at the treatment of American Indians
Practice
Have the students write a journal entry talking about the feelings that they had. Have them write about what it felt like to be an American Indian and someone taking their land or what it might have felt like to be a Journal
Assessment
Exit slip to be added to the KWL chart.
Grade: 4th
Subject Area: Social Studies
Context
Materials
- Exit Slip
- Journal
Introduction/Investment
For this lesson, we will keep the simulation going but there will only be America using all the space. At the beginning, have half of the class being American Indians and the other half being European Americans. The purpose of this is to show the students the movement of American Indians at the hand of the European Americans.
Start the simulation from Lesson #9 at its final point. It should have something very similar to all the blues huddled around a few number of desks. Try and have the students discover why they ended up there.
Content
For this lesson, the content that is important will be the different phases of taking land and the treaties that related to American Indians.
The important concepts for the content are:
- Land
- War
- Expansion
- Minerals
- Greed
Whole-Class Activity
For the whole class activity, it will be the walking through of the content and doing the simulation with each passing legislation or act against American Indians by the US or Europeans.
With each action, you should ask the students to talk about what it feels like to have that happen to them. This simulation is meant to dive into the affective aspects of the students learning and offer them something that they can grasp onto and use as their framework for looking at the treatment of American Indians
Practice
Have the students write a journal entry talking about the feelings that they had. Have them write about what it felt like to be an American Indian and someone taking their land or what it might have felt like to be a Journal
Assessment
Exit slip to be added to the KWL chart.
