5 th Grade
Native American Research Project
Native American Clipart Native American Clipart supplied br First People-A large site about Native Americans and members of the First Nations.
Project : Over the next month, you will be researching what it was like for one Native American tribe to live and survive in a world very different from ours. Your guiding question is: How did these early Americans use their environments to survive?
Step 1: Choosing one region and one tribe from that region.
- Eastern Woodland Indians include: Iroquis, Wampanoag, Mohawk, Huron, Shawnee
- Great Plains Indians include: Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Blackfoot, Sioux
- Southwest Indians include: Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Anasazi
- Northwest Coastal Indians include: Tlingit, Chinook, Tillamook
- Southeastern Indians include: Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Natchez
Step 2: Creating a Working Bibliography
You will create a " working bibliography ," which is a list of the resources that you will or are using to research your project. A working bibliography:
- helps you to know where to go if you need more information from one of the sources you used.
- makes it easier for you to do your final bibliography.
For your report, you will need to have 3 different sources of information:
- Brittanica.com or Kidzworld
- An Internet resource (your choice-but it must be a reliable source.)
- A print resource (book or article)
Key Words:
- Resources or sources : places where you find information. Sources can include printed texts, like books, magazines, and articles, internet sites, videos , and pictures/clipart.
- Bibliography: A listing of your sources or where you found your information. A bibliography includes information like the title and author of the source, the publisher, the publication date, and the city in which it was published (if the source is a book), the name of the website and the organization that maintains the website, the date you went to the website and the website's URL. (Another name for a bibliography is "Works Cited."
- Citing Sources : You give credit to authors for their words, ideas and/or pictures by telling YOUR reader where you got your information from (the source.) Now the reader of your report has a way to check the information and find out more about the topic.
- Plagiarism : If you copy information from a source without citing it, this is called plagiarism. This is like stealing - it is illegal and unethical.
**GUESS WHAT? YOU'VE GOT HELP FINDING GREAT ON-LINE RESOURCES… CHECK OUT THE LINKS BELOW!
http://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/indian-tribes/
http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/native_americans.html
http://www.native-languages.org/kids.htm
http://indians.org/articles/
http://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/indians.html
Step 3: Start researching, reading and taking notes on an organizer.