Title of Unit: Nevadas Washoe Tribe Title of Lesson: Unit Vocabulary and guest speaker preparation Submitted By:

Suzanne Garlick

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan: Students will have a special guest speaker in class tomorrow that will explain his heritage and culture of his ancestry. Students will create questions to discuss during a question and answer period at the end of the presentation. They will also learn vocabulary words that relate to this unit. B. Target Population: Grade Level: 5th Skill Level: All levels Grouping: Whole group, small groups

C. Materials: Paper and pencils White board and markers Vocabulary worksheet (see end of lesson plan) Vocabulary and definition cards D. Objectives: NV State Social Studies Standards H1.5.1 Identify and describe Native North American life and cultural regions prior to European contact. o H1.5.2 Identify and describe the attributes of Native American nations in the local region and North America. o H1.5.3 Discuss the interactions of early explorers with native cultures. Student-Friendly Standards o o I can learn to identify and describe Native American life, culture and attributes in Nevadas history.

E. Procedure: 1. Explain that tomorrow we will be having a guest speaker coming into our class. 2. Go over proper etiquette for this type of class lesson. 3. Introduce new vocabulary words that the students will be using in this unit: o Native American -- a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere o Region -- a broad geographic area distinguished by similar features o European -- a person of European ancestry o Culture -- a particular stage, form, or kind of civilization o Attributes -- a quality belonging to a particular person or thing o Interaction -- the action or influence of people, groups, or things between one another
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Title of Unit: Nevadas Washoe Tribe Title of Lesson: Unit Vocabulary and guest speaker preparation Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

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Explorers -- a person who travels in search of new geographical or scientific information Native -- a person born in a particular place or country

4. Play the vocabulary matching game on the board with the class. Place the definitions on one side of the board and the words on the other side of the board. Have one person from each desk group come up and try and match the word with the definition. 5. Discuss with students what question they might want to ask the guest speaker after his presentation. Have the students think about what we learned at the museum and come up with questions that might help them better understand Native American life and culture before European contact, along with the attributes of Native American nations in the Nevada area. Also, the interactions of early explorers with the Native American cultures. 6. Have the students write their questions down on their paper. 7. Have the whole class discuss each of the questions. Make sure that the questions are relevant to the type of Native American life, culture, attributes of the Nevada Native American people prior to European contact and after European contact. Make sure that each student has at least one question to ask the speaker. 8. CLOSURE: Today we learned different vocabulary words to help us understand the culture, life style and attributes of Nevada Native Americans. Collect the questions that the students will be using tomorrow for the guest speaker. Hand out a vocabulary worksheet that the students will work on independently. F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? I will assess the questions that the students wrote and discussed in class. This will allow me to assess if they are connecting what they previously learned at the museum about the Native Americans in Nevada and what they would like to know more about. I will also assess the vocabulary that they learned today relating to Native American culture. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. By evaluating their questions I will know if they are connecting what we learned yesterday at the Nevada State Museum with what they should learn tomorrow from a Nevada Native American guest speaker. G. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach?

Nevada State College

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: Nevadas Washoe Tribe Title of Lesson: Unit Vocabulary and guest speaker preparation Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

I think that it will be easiest to teach the students to ask questions that are relevant to the lesson. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? I think that the vocabulary will be the most challenging to teach because some of the definitions might be difficult for the students to comprehend. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? We will follow up this lesson tomorrow with our guest speakerChief Sleep Easy. 4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? If the students do not grasp the concepts, we have a review each day of this unit. I will also follow up the vocabulary lesson with some homework to support the vocabulary words. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? If the students are not grasping the vocabulary words, I might need to come up with an inventive way to get the students more engaged. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Trying to make sure that the objective of the day and the standards are all being met together.

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Karen Powell- Instructor

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Title of Unit: Nevadas Washoe Tribe Title of Lesson: Unit Vocabulary and guest speaker preparation Submitted By: Suzanne Garlick

Nevada Native American Vocabulary Matching Worksheet Directions: Match by drawing a line from the words on the left with the correct definition on the right. Native American a particular stage, form, or kind of civilization

Regions

a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere

European

the action or influence of people, groups, or things on one another

Culture

born in a particular place or country

Attributes

a broad geographic area distinguished by similar features

Interaction

a quality belonging to a particular person or thing

Explorers

a person who travels in search of new geographical or scientific information

Native

a person of European ancestry

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2013

Karen Powell- Instructor

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