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Americans - Smithsonian Institution
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Take a virtual field trip to the National Museum of the American Indian exhibit that explores American Indian identity from before the birth of the United States. Click on gallery ...more
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Take a virtual field trip to the National Museum of the American Indian exhibit that explores American Indian identity from before the birth of the United States. Click on gallery images to read and learn more about the artifacts shared, including coins, dolls, posters, and much more. Additional links take viewers to videos and displays that tell the stories of Thanksgiving, Queen of America (Pocahontas), The Removal Act, and The Indians Win.
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In the Classroom
Replace some of your current written Native American resources with the genuine artifacts and stories available for viewing on this site. Introduce the site to students on your interactive whiteboard to demonstrate its features and how to find them. After students have had time to explore, create groups to conduct in-depth research in the four featured areas. Create a Padlet, reviewed here, with four columns for students to share web and video resources found during their research. Instead of written or oral presentations, ask student groups to create quizzes for their classmates using a quiz-creation tool like Baamboozle, reviewed here. Baamboozle is a quick and easy resource for creating and sharing quizzes for teams of two. As a final project, transform student learning by using Book Creator, reviewed here, to create class books sharing information about Native Americans. Book Creator is a digital book creation site offering the ability to add images, text, video, and more. Be sure to share student-created books on your class website or blog after publication.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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