Subject: Geography Grade: 8 Time: 2 class periods

Common Core State Standard:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
DPI Standard:
A.8.2 Construct mental maps of selected locales, regions, states, and countries, and draw
maps from memory, representing relative location, direction, size and shape.
A.8.9 Describe how buildings and their decorations reflect cultural values and ideas.
Lesson Objective Day 1:
Students will use individual Chromebooks and library resources to research information on
the American Indians and pioneers of Wisconsin using primary and secondary sources. For
this lesson, students must research 5 objects or goods to include in their map using 5
different sources. There must be at least one primary and secondary source.
Accommodations (Profile 1) Modifications (Profile 2)
Students will research at least 3 objects Students will find 3 photos of objects used
using at least one primary and one by American Indians or pioneers (primary
secondary source. sources)
Lesson Objective Day 2:
1. Students will use objects or goods they researched to draw a map showing the home
and community of American Indians or American pioneers.
2. Students will write a paragraph (topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding
sentence) describing how buildings and their decorations reflect cultural values and ideas.
Accommodations Modifications
Students will draw the objects they Students will create a map by gluing
researched on a map and describe orally their photos onto a printed map and
how buildings and their objects reflect describe orally why the photos reflect
cultural values and ideas.
cultural values and ideas.
Terms Materials
Primary Source Chromebooks
Secondary Source Library Books
Student Resources
County Maps: http://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/travel/road/hwy-maps/county-
maps/default.aspx
Geographical Areas of Wisconsin:
http://www.wisconline.com/wisconsin/geoprovinces/index.html
See Wisconsin Historical Society for Primary Sources:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1133
Justification of Planning Decisions:
Disciplinary Literacy:
Inquiry Circle (questioning, research, analysis, interpretation)
Primary Source Analysis
Sourcing and Bias (how does knowing who wrote something change how you accept that
source as truth?)
Considering Point of View (how does a geographer view something different than a
historian; American Indians versus pioneers)
Specialized Vocabulary
I created my own lesson because both of my profile students would benefit from a visually
organized lesson based on self-paced exploration of sources. One of my students is a gifted
artist, but struggles to remain on task. For her, I decided to teach about how objects and
places reflect a culture by engaging her with a creative map as a reward for finishing
research. I also decreased the number of objects she needed to research because she tends
to be overwhelmed by tasks she cannot accomplish in one class period. My other student
has a modified curriculum. He hates to draw, but he likes to do research on the computer
and build things. I wanted to make his map modification more of a construction, but still
engage him in finding sources and creating a map so he can compare his objects/goods to
peers. In my experience, lesson objectives that are scaffolded both up and down through a
self-paced activity (hopefully visually prompted).

This Module intrigued me. I grew up in Minnesota and I did not receive an education on
American Indian people, even though I am from Dakota County and live close to Mystic
Lake Resort and Casino. I lived in a bubble and graduated from a high school that is 95%
white and just made headlines for having racial slurs smeared across the bathroom stalls.
Since high school, I have attended an American Indian Powwow and studied two courses
related to American Indian history. I see the importance in requiring future educators to
study this history before they teach it as described in Aaron Bird Bears Introduction to
Act31. It seems that the greatest lesson to learn is how to perspective take through other
shoes, other skins, and the lens of time. And using sources to look at objects and geography
and people can help you understand traditions and culture. It will help us understand our
shared history and conflict.
 Name______________________________

Date_______________________________

I am researching (circle): American Indians, WI Pioneers, WI

If American Indians of Wisconsin, which tribe? ___________________________________________

Object/Good Source Notes (specific evidence)

(Primary or What was this used for? Who used it? Why
Secondary) was it important to the American Indians
or the Pioneers?
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