Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Native American Cultures

Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): Second Grade

Content Standard Addressed: SS2H2 Describe the Georgia Creek and Cherokee cultures of the past in terms
of tools, clothing, homes, ways of making a living, and accomplishments.

Technology Standard Addressed: 5. Computational Thinker b. collect data or identify relevant data sets, use
digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-
making.

Selected Technology Tool: Inspiration

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

http://www.bigorrin.org/creek_kids.htm
http://www.bigorrin.org/cherokee_kids.htm

Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration
Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation:

After briefly discussing Native American cultures, students will have the chance to conduct their own
research on either the Georgia Cherokee or the Georgia Creek cultures. The teacher will direct students to kid
friendly websites that give information on the Native American cultures. Students will explore the websites
and create a diagram with the Inspiration Software. In the diagram students will display information regarding
the culture that they chose. In this diagram students will include information about the cultures clothing,
housing, tools, and ways of living. Once students have gathered information on the culture, they will write a
diary entry and embody an individual who from this culture. In their diary entry, they will talk about their life
according to the information that they researched and added to their Inspiration diagram. The teacher will
scan a copy of the entries, and post each entry on the class blog so that students and parents can better
understand the lives and cultures of Native American individuals.
As an extension assignment students can also research and find the same information for todays
Georgians. Students will then create another Inspiration diagram for the todays Georgians, and they will
include information about the cultures clothing, housing, tools, and ways of life. They will take that
information and write a journal entry a Georgian in todays society. This assignment will allow students to
analyze both cultures and compare and contrast the lives of Georgia Native American cultures from the past
and Georgia cultures of the present. The teacher will also scan a copy of those journal entries and will upload
them to the class blog so that other students and parents can observe and appreciate both cultures.

Summer 2017_SJB