Native Americans

1. Do Now
• Why do you think that American Indian
cultures developed differently?

2. Answers may vary
• Wherever the “first people” settled, they had
to adapt to their environment. This became
their way of life, or their culture.

3. Do Now # 2
Imagine you were stranded here for 1 year!
What would you do for each of these:
1. food, 2. tools, 3. shelter, and 4. clothing?

4. Essential Question

5. Agenda
• Do Now- 5 min
• Intro to History Alive Native American Unit with
key vocabulary -5 min
• Read 1.2 and 1.3- 10 min
• Complete questions for 1.2 and 1.3 -20 min
• Closure - 5 min

6. Social Studies Learning
Target:
• I will be able to describe how the first
people migrated to America and
established cultural groups

8. Cultural Regions