We wrapped up our unit study on Native Americans today. This has been such a great study. I absolutely love Evan Moor's History Pockets. I have had this one for about 4 years and finally got around to actually using it and I'm so glad I did. Grace and Joe have enjoyed learning about Native Americans and there similarities and differences. This study had one "pocket" for each of 8 tribes. Each pocket consisted of a short reading, three vocabulary words to add to the picture dictionary, a "stamp" to put on the map, and a craft or two. We combined this with lots of reading of our own of fiction and non-fiction books about Native Americans. We still have a lot of good books to read and will continue to read even though we've finished this part. I am most excited about two "Dear America" books I found on Julie's shelf yesterday. Tomorrow we start another History Pocket, "Life in Plymouth Colony." I figure our study of this time period in US history will take us through until Christmas break. Right now we are reading aloud "Stories of the Pilgrims" and then we'll start in on the Dear America books. Any other pilgrim and indian read aloud suggestions? So--here are some pictures of this project. Grace and Joe both did this but I've only included pictures of Grace's. I didn't think you'd really want to see two pictures of everything. The rest of the pockets each focused on a different tribe.
This was the first pocket and we added to it each time we did a new tribe. We added three words to the Picture Dictionary and a stamp to the map and filled out the chart. The chart had columns for clothing, food, and shelter.
