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Native Americans
By Awilda Rodriguez

You may want to check in your school district or internet to see if you can have a Native American visit your class. Every year we have a Native American (Apache), Santos Hawk, that the Board of Ed has a contract with to
visit our 5th grade classrooms and talk about his tribe, garment, etc. He performs on stage a dance and teaches the children a dance and some words. They enjoy it very much and come up with excellent questions during the Q&A session. I probably can get additional information from our technology department who usually sets up the date and time of the visit. He just visited our school

this past Friday. I know he visits schools across the states.

Also I have the children create a diorama using art materials or any thing they can come up with to create an Indian village (showing people, living quarters, buffalo, horses, etc.) You will be amazed with what they come up with. At this time, we are having oral presentations of their dioramas and this is my way of assessing their understanding of the Native Americans, creativity, oral expression. Display their dioramas in the hallway!

Awilda Rodriguez
Grade 5
Newark, NJ