Slide1 : NATIVE AMERICANS Native American use
of natural resources
Pocohontas Teacher Page This set of activities was created
by Dawn Wise / Barrington
Slide2 : Content Standards: * To identify the ways Native Americans used
natural resources to meet their daily needs. * To use a chart or other graphic organizer to organize
information. * To identify and analyze the impact
of specific European cultural influences on the lives of Native Americans. Click
Here
Slide3 : Please encourage students to keep a journal in which to write their responses
to the activities. Instruct them to recreate any charts that appear in the following activities as a means of organizing their responses.
HOW NATIVE AMERICANS USED NATURAL RESOURCES : HOW NATIVE AMERICANS USED NATURAL RESOURCES Copy the chart
into your
journal. Resources Clothes Food Travel Homes/
Daily
Living
Slide5 : Study this picture and
use the chart to
list as many ways as
you can that Native
Americans used these
resources.
HOW NATIVE AMERICANS USED NATURAL RESOURCES : HOW NATIVE AMERICANS USED NATURAL RESOURCES Resources Clothes Food Travel Cooking,
firewood Canoes Longhouse,
clubs,tools Moccasins,
dresses,
robes
meat Tipis,
blankets
arrowheads
Fishing,
beavers Canoe
travel Water for
washing,
cooking Shirts,
dresses,
leggings Deer meat Sample
Chart Homes &
Daily living
Slide7 : What clues can you find in the above photograph
of Pocohontas that indicate that it was taken after
the influence of European settlers in America?
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for answer. Pocohontas’s
clothing reflects
the style of
European dress
for that time
period rather than
the traditional
dress of her tribe.
Slide8 :