Indigenous Peoples Unit - 8 Lessons - PowerPoints- Activities - Quizzes - Test

This curriculum unit includes 8 Indigenous Peoples of North America lessons for 7-8 weeks of instruction & includes a printable & digital version. Some components are editable so you can tweak it to your students’ needs. Audios of the reading passages, quizzes, & tests are included. This is perfect for students with read-aloud accommodations. 

The included Indigenous Peoples of North America lessons help you easily integrate literacy with your social studies content with graphic organizers that focus on one specific reading skill per organizer, & students will be analyzing primary documents.

This curriculum unit can be used as a stand-alone in the classroom and as a homeschool curriculum.

It includes these 8 Indigenous Peoples of North America lessons:

⭐️ Ancient Migration lesson

⭐️ Southwest Region lesson

⭐️First People of California lesson

⭐️ Great Basin Region lesson

⭐️ Arctic & Northwest Regions lesson

⭐️ Plains Region lesson

⭐️ Northeast Region lesson

⭐️ Southeast Region lesson

This Indigenous Peoples of North America Unit includes:

✅ 8 editable PowerPoint presentations that cover the Indigenous Peoples who lived across North America that can be used to facilitate discussion or have students take notes (PowerPoint presentations include carefully curated videos & links that will enrich the WW2 lessons)

✅ 8 slotted notes sets so students can focus on recording the important information from the PowerPoint presentation. Editable slotted notes included!

✅ 8 informational reading passages about North American Indigenous Peoples (There are TWO versions of the reading passage included. One is the "paper saver" version for when you have to limit your copies. The other is the "note-taking" version which has enough space for annotating and taking notes. This version also includes bolded headers for the different sections!)

✅ 32 activities (4 per lesson): Includes key terms, dates & events, literary works, political cartoon, geographical connection, and a literacy connection. Three of the four activities PER lesson have two levels: a basic recall and an application of knowledge.

✅ 8 quizzes for each of the Indigenous Peoples of North America lessons included

✅ editable study guide

✅ editable unit test

✅ editable modified test

✅ answer keys for all components

✅ digital version of all components (Google & Easel)

✅ self-grading Google Forms version of quizzes, unit test, & modified unit test

✅ audio of reading passages, quizzes, unit test, & modified test (perfect for read-aloud accommodations)

✅ teacher's guide with suggested pacing map

PLUS these North American Indigenous Peoples activities:

⭐️ 8 graphic organizers 

⭐️ 9 North American Indigenous Peoples interactive notebook foldables

⭐️ 8 Indigenous Peoples of North America primary source analysis pack

⭐️ 66 Indigenous Peoples of North America vocabulary word wall cards

⭐️ 7 North American Indigenous Peoples stations

⭐️ Indigenous Peoples of North America Simulation- will be available on my website

You will save 35% by purchasing this unit.

Additional ways you can use these lessons:

⭐️Limited on copies or paper? Every component of this lesson is ready-to-go on Google & Easel, so you can easily assign itto your students. The quiz is also available on Google Forms, and I include explicit directions on how to assign and tweak (if desired) for your students. The quiz is also self-grading!

⭐️Short on time? Simply give students the reading passage, and they can complete the reading comprehension activities independently. All information needed for the activities is contained in the reading passage! These can also be used for homework.

⭐️Perfect for sub plans! These lessons require ZERO prep for substitute plans. Students can easily check their own answers with the included answer keys.

What teachers are saying about my Indigenous Peoples of North America No Prep Lessons that are included in this unit:

❤️ "Fabulous addition to my lessons & easy to use!"

❤️ "Great resource to teach the progression of Native Americans in early days through the 1800s."

Specific reading skills in this unit are:

series of events, cause-effect relationships, central idea, key details, summarization, cite text evidence, integrate multiple sources of information, author's purpose & text structure, & meaning of words/phrases using context clues.

++++++++++US HISTORY CURRICULUM UNITS++++++++++

♦US History Curriculum Complete Course

♦US History Curriculum Vol. 1

♦US History Curriculum Vol. 2

♦Unit 1: Indigenous Peoples of North America

♦Unit 2: Colonial America

♦Unit 3: American Revolution

♦Unit 4: Constitution & A New Nation

♦Unit 5: Age of Jackson & Sectionalism

♦Unit 6: US Civil War & Reconstruction

♦Unit 7: Gilded Age

♦Unit 8: Progressive Era & American Imperialism

♦Unit 9: World War 1

♦Unit 10: Roaring '20s & Great Depression

♦Unit 11: World War 2

==========NO PREP UNITS FOR US HISTORY==========

→US History No Prep Complete Bundle

→US History No Prep Vol. 1

→US History No Prep Vol. 2

→Indigenous Peoples of North America Unit Bundle

→Colonial America Unit Bundle

→American Revolution Unit Bundle

→Constitution & A New Nation Unit Bundle

→Age of Jackson & Sectionalism Unit Bundle

→American Civil War Unit Bundle

→Reconstruction Unit Bundle

→Gilded Age Bundle

→Progressive Era & U.S. Imperialism Unit Bundle

→World War 1 Unit Bundle

→Roaring '20s & the Great Depression Unit Bundle

→World War 2 Unit Bundle

→Cold War Bundle

→Civil Rights Movement Unit Bundle

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