2. Analyze the Learners
▪ The students are 10th graders at a local public
school.The classroom consists of 20 students,
14 girls and 6 boys ranging between the ages
of 14-16. Of those students, 17 are Caucasian,
2 are African-American, and 1 is Asian.These
students learn a lot from visual aids and love
to put in their own input.
3. Main Objective
▪ My students will identify six different Native
AmericanTribes; how they arrived to North
America; the effects of “Manifest Destiny”; the
Indian Removal Act of 1830; the “Trail ofTears”; and
NativeAmericans in the 21st Century by: examining
maps and primary source documents, watching
videos, posting blogs to a classroom blog, and
listening to lectures with 90% accuracy by the end
of the week.
4. Day by Day Breakdown
▪ Monday – Students will learn about the Native American’s Migration
to North America through interactive maps.
▪ Tuesday – Students will watch a documentary on Six Native
AmericanTribes in North America.
▪ Wednesday – Students will learn aboutAmerican Expansion into
Native AmericanTerritories (“Manifest Destiny”).
▪ Thursday – Students will learn about the Indian Removal Act of 1830
and “Trail ofTears” by using Slideshare to read a Primary Source
Document .
▪ Friday – Students will talk about Native Americans in the 21st
Century.
5. Use of Technology
▪ PowerPoint
▪ YouTube
▪ Slideshare
▪ Mapmaker Interactive
▪ Blogger
▪ Computers
6. Works Cited
▪ Native American Populations Descend fromThree Key Migrations (n.d.).
Retrieved from http://phys.org/news/2012-07-native-american-
populations-descend-key.html
▪ Primary Documents in American History (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html
▪ Manifest Destiny (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.history.com/topics/manifest-destiny>.
▪ Today's Challenges (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/challenges/index.html
▪ QuestarVideo. (2013, June 25). America's Great Indian Nations - Full
Documentary [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MazI9dFA6ME
