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Lesson 5#                            The Eastern Woodland Longhouse

SUBJECT: Language Arts and Social Studies

TOPIC:  Research, the Eastern Woodland Longhouse on the World Wide Web

TIME FRAME: 1-3 classes

Critical and Creative Thinking - Students' will use various websites to research about the longhouse. The students will determine which websites are relevant to the project after the research has been completed.

MATERIALS: Books of the longhouse, pencils, worksheets, maps and pictures.

1. OBJECTIVES:                             Saskatchewan Language Arts Objectives
                                                           Saskatchewan Social Studies Objectives

Cognitive: Students will...

- access the the internet to locate information regarding the Eastern Woodland longhouse.

- discuss differences and similarities between the Pacific Northwest and the Eastern Woodland longhouses.

Physical: Students will...

- practice their writing while answering the questions about the longhouse.

-practice their keyboarding skills on the computer while looking for information on the longhouse.

Spiritual: Students will...

- appreciate the difference in the dwelling's of First Nations communities.

http://home.earthlink.net/~bluesman1/indio4.html
Part 4:(continued) The Ojibway Tribe of the Woodlands Section 2:

http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/homes.html#longhouse
Descriptions of First Nations homes.

http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/woodland2.html
A description of the Eastern Woodland culture.

 

3. PURPOSE/TEACHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

The purpose of this lesson is to inform students' about the Eastern Woodland peoples and the  longhouses they built.  The difference between the two First Nation groups is that the Eastern Woodland group did not have the availability of wood as the Pacific Northwest people.  However they did have an abundance of birch trees and they used the wood for the foundation while they used the bark for the covering. The Eastern Woodland First Nation people were located in the region of Lower Ontario and into the United States.

4. ACTIVITIES/IDEAS:

Comparison Paper: Have the students' compare and contrast the two structures of the Pacific Northwest longhouse and the  Eastern Woodlands longhouse.

Research Paper:  Have the students' complete research on the  Eastern Woodlands longhouse. Students' can explore the cultural beliefs held by the group and related to who owned the longhouses and why?

(Eastern Woodland Longhouse: Germantown Elementary Third Grade Social Studies, 1998)