Journey Through Native American Life

We spend time during the school year studying Native Americans in social studies.  This webquest was created in hopes of having a fun and interesting way for students to learn about the different regions, while working collaboratively on a group project.

Standards

New Jersey State Standards

6.1.4.B.4: Places are jointly characterized by their physical and human properties.
6.1.4.B.5: The physical environment can both accommodate and be endanger by human activities.
6.1.4.B.6: Regions form and change as a result of unique physical/ecological conditions, economies, and cultures.
6.1.4.B.7: Patters of settlement across Earth's surface differ markedly from region to region, place to place, and time to time.
6.1.4.D.1: Immigrants come to New Jersey and the United States for various reasons and have a major impact on the state and the nation.
6.1.4.D.10: Personal, Family, and community history is a source of information for individuals about the people and places around them.
6.1.4.D.15: Cultures struggle to maintain traditions in a changing society.
6.1.4.D.17: Historical symbols and the ideas and events they represent play a role in understanding and evaluating our history.
8.1.5.A.3: Use a graphic organizer to organize information about a problem or issue.
8.1.2.B.1: Illustrate and communicate original ideas and stories using multiple digital tools and resources.
8.1.5.D.2: Analyze the resource citations in online materials for proper use.
8.1.5.E.1: Use digital tools to research and evaluate the accuracy of, relevance to, and appropriateness of using print and non-print electronic information sources to complete a variety of tasks.

Credits

Many thanks to Lynn Mulder's web quest for providing the foundation and doing much of the work for this web quest. javascript:nicTemp();