If Trees Could Talk Modules

Module Test Template

Image ID: FHS275
Biltmore Forest School students.
1911

OVERVIEW

American Prehistory has students study the evidence of 8000 years of Native American prehistoric land use practices. By analyzing images of Native American material culture, students will understand how artifacts and architecture reveal environmental attitudes of the culture. Students also will learn about the difficulties historians and other scholars face when attempting to study people who had no written language.

Image Caption: FHS275 Biltmore Forest School students. 1911

OBJECTIVE

History
  • The student will understand the patterns of indigenous societies in the Americas before the Columbian voyages. (Era 1, Standard 1)
Social Studies
  • The student will explain and give examples of how language, literature, the arts, architecture, other artifacts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmission of culture. (Standard 1: Culture)
  • The student will draw upon historical knowledge during the examination of social issues and develop the habits of mind that historians and scholars in the humanities and social sciences employ to study the past and its relationship to the present in the United States and other societies. (Standard 2: Time, Continuity and Change)

STATE STANDARDS

LESSON PLAN

OVERVIEW

For Day 1 activity: Make copies of the Essay for each student in your classroom. Next make copies of Worksheet 1 and Worksheet 2 for each student.

Day 2 activity: Make copies of Detecting Prehistory and Worksheet 3 for each student. Pre-class preparation: Arrange four tables or four clusters of desks within the classroom. Place one 8x12 colored category topic card on or above each table or desk cluster. The category topic cards, each a different color, are entitled: Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Geographers, and Historians. Print each of the category topics on 4x6 unlined note cards. (The total number of 4x6 cards represents the total number of students in your class). The 4x6 note card color for each category topic should match that of the larger 8x12 card. For example, if the 8x12 anthropology topic card is blue, the 4x6 anthropology cards also should be blue.

Day 3 activity: Make copies of Eyewitness Accounts and Worksheet 4 for each student.

Day 4 activity: Make copies of "The Legend of the Cedar" for each student and Worksheet 5 for each student group (groups of 3-4).

DAY ONE
DAY TWO
DAY THREE
DAY FOUR
DAY FIVE
DAY SIX