Who are the Ojibwe?
Lesson #: 15
Grade: 4th
Subject Area: Social Studies
Context
Materials
Introduction/Investment
On the board represent the following information:
Content
The major content for the Ojibwe is:
Whole-Class Activity
As you are giving the students the information in one of the few times of lecturing, play “lecture bingo.” Pick out some of the key ideas from the information that you will discuss with the class such as Ojibwe, Chippewa, wild rice, reservations, and allowing the students to place the words wherever they want. The object is to give them an active means of listening.
As for an activity, there won’t be one as a large group but rather the activity will be done during the practice time.
Practice
For this lesson, I really want the students to create maps and see the huge swatches of land that the Ojibwe lost as a part of the treaties and cessation of land.
To give all students access, have a map with the lines already created showing the different areas but it would be up to the students to write what it meant.
Assessment
For the students, have an exit slip and have them write down what they learned today in class. Easy and simple way to see if the topics need to be touched on again.
Grade: 4th
Subject Area: Social Studies
Context
Materials
- Exit Slip
- Maps of Wisconsin
- Lecture Bingo Sheets
Introduction/Investment
On the board represent the following information:
- Tribe: Ojibwe
- Geography: Originally from the East Coast “Great Salt Water in the East” and migrated to the southern shores of Lake Superior. Currently no one defined reservation but rather 6 reservations for the 6 bands of the Ojibwe in Wisconsin
- Language Family: Algonquian
- Pop:
- Status: Federally Recognized with multiple reservations.
Content
The major content for the Ojibwe is:
- Also known as the Chippewa
- Ojibwe is the proper terminology
- The Ojibwe of Wisconsin descend from the Anishinaabe Confederacy whom the Lake Superior Ojibwe fall under.
- Lac Courte Oreilles
- Lac du Flambeau
- Red Cliff
- Bad River
- Sokaogan (Mole Lake)
- St. Croix Band
- The most important center for them was on Madeline Island
- That is where Midewiwin took place
- Coexisted very well with the French
- Relied heavily on fishing during the spring and summer and the harvesting of wild rice in late summer and the fall
- Like the Menominee, have a clan structure
- Crane, Loon, Fish, Bear, Marten, Deer and Bird
- Known for their fisheries, maple syrup, and means of harvesting wild rice.
Whole-Class Activity
As you are giving the students the information in one of the few times of lecturing, play “lecture bingo.” Pick out some of the key ideas from the information that you will discuss with the class such as Ojibwe, Chippewa, wild rice, reservations, and allowing the students to place the words wherever they want. The object is to give them an active means of listening.
As for an activity, there won’t be one as a large group but rather the activity will be done during the practice time.
Practice
For this lesson, I really want the students to create maps and see the huge swatches of land that the Ojibwe lost as a part of the treaties and cessation of land.
To give all students access, have a map with the lines already created showing the different areas but it would be up to the students to write what it meant.
Assessment
For the students, have an exit slip and have them write down what they learned today in class. Easy and simple way to see if the topics need to be touched on again.
