American Indian Homes in the Central Plains
First Grade
To address Kansas standards
Download PDF with tour information - Kansas Standards
 Pawnee
Indian Museum near Republic is providing an opportunity for you to combine
Kansas standards with a unique educational experience!
This field trip is designed to meet specific Kansas history, geography, reading, mathematics (geometry), and science (inquiry) indicators. This one-hour tour will take place in the museum and on the nature trail. The tour is designed for a maximum of 30 students. It enables first grade students to become familiar with traditional homes of four Kansas Indian tribes: Pawnee, Kansa, Wichita, and Cheyenne. Your students will learn how the availability of natural resources influenced these tribes in the choice of style and materials used to make their homes.
This tour fulfills grade specific standards and provides pre- and post-visit
materials to help teachers address those standards.
Kansas Standards
History
Benchmark 2, Indicator 4: The student compares types of shelter used by American Indians in Kansas over time (e.g., grass lodge, earth lodge, bark lodge, tipi).
Benchmark 4, Indicator 3: The student asks questions, shares information, and discusses ideas about the past using resources such as maps, photographs, books, and people.
Geography
Benchmark 1, Indicator 2: The student finds Kansas on a wall map.
Benchmark 5, Indicator 2: The student describes how the physical environment impacts humans (e.g., choices of clothing, housing, crops, recreation).
Reading
Benchmark 2, Indicator 1: The student uses knowledge of sentence structure to read fluently at instructional or independent reading levels.
Mathematics
Standard 3: Geometry Benchmark 1, Indicator 2: The student recognizes and investigates attributes of circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and ellipses (plane figures) using concrete objects, drawings, and appropriate technology.
Science
Science as Inquiry Benchmark 1, Indicator 4: The student asks and answers questions about objects, organisms, and events in his/her environment.
Length of tour: approximately
one hour.
Cost: $2 per participant
Number of students in a group: For
the best experience, we recommend no more than 30 students per
tour.
For registration and scheduling: Contact
Richard Gould, site administrator, 785-361-2255; piv@kshs.org.
A minimum of two weeks advance registration is needed. |
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