American Indian Unit Part 3b - American Indian Hunting & Gathering Food

American Indian Unit Part 3b - American Indian Family & Village Life - Hunting and Gathering Food

Welcome to our American Indian Unit Part 3b!  We hope you enjoyed our  American Indian Unit thus far as, WHEW!!! Posting on this here blog along with compiling the accompanying packets has PROVEN itself to be a HUGE endeavor! And that is not even counting all the classroom work we did and flicks we took to bring you a glimpse into our homeschool world. A STAND UP TALL SALUTE to ALL you ed bloggers for all the hard work you do in both your classrooms & on the web!!

And while I am blogging away, I am entertaining myself with my FAV vintage Thanksgiving TV Shows Mix from CC Cartoons...can you DIG IT???!!!

If you missed Parts 1, 2 & 3a of our American Indian Unit check them out. You can tip-toe on through our American Indian Garden of Learning BLAST to the PAST via these QUICK links:

American Indian Unit Stories, Songs, Poems, FREEBIES & MORE! - Part 1 

American Indian Unit - Part 2 Homes & FREEBIES!  

American Indian Unit - Part 3a Family & Village Life with FREEBIES! 

I am STOKED to announce this post received TOP billing on the American Daily (Sunday November 22, 2015 edition), trip huh! Check it out: 

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In this part of our unit, we learned about how the Indians hunt and gather food. 

We began with how they obtained their food. We learned some tribes gathered their food such as in the Southwest or Woodlands. Others, due to agreeable climate & terrain were able to grow their own foods. They all in one way or another hunted for food as well. 

Giving each child the copied cut out page from the Finding Food Diorama found in our 2005 Northeastern Indians book from Scholastic...

 

...they colored their dioramas & we talked about the different ways the Northeastern Indian tribes gathered & hunted food. I asked them where did they think Indians found food on land & in the water. Much interesting and some amusing speculations resulted. These particular Indians that my babes colored were Menominee "The Rice People" Indians who lived near Lake Michigan. I showed them exactly where they lived on our US map:

and on our Tribal Map:

Showing them the exact location of this tribe on these maps really brought them a keen interest in the tribe. As they worked carefully on their pages we discussed what the women and men were doing and their uses for each item along with the color my babes thought each item would be. We learned they use their canoes to gather grains in the day and the men hunted for fish at night in their canoes. When these were finished, they turned out DYNO & my babes had sooooooooooooo much fun setting up their dioramas over and over, moving the pieces around again & again...SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

I introduced my Golden Book of Crafts and Hobbies by W. Ben Hunt. A most BODASCIOUSLY BOSS book featuring bright & colorful detailed lifelike drawings! Check it out & you will see some of the MANY reasons I choose curriculum supplementation's from the days of yesteryear:

 We looked at the way Indians made bowls for their food. These drawings inspired much curiosity and chattering:

Next we looked at different canoe paddle designs and how the shape of the paddle along with the angle when used determines the speed: 

We also took a gander at the different Arrow Heads used for hunting. They DUG these:

We also looked at how Tipi's are made:

I cannot begin to impress upon you what an asset this book has been in my classroom over the years. A most def TREASURE to behold! And believe it or not, it is not hard to find, nor is it pricey:




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The Golden Book of Crafts and Hobbies by W. Ben Hunt




Next I passed out some vintage coloring papers of Indians with different types of food and canoe prep. We discussed each sheet as they color co-ordinated the scenes. Here are some samples:

You can get the above and more in our Vintage American Indian Hunting & Gathering Food Activity Pack from our Teacher's Notebook Store. 57 pages stuffed with all manner of food & hunting oriented coloring & activity pages, recipes, paper toys, a canoe race game & MORE! Most excellent materials for the flannelboard, pocket chart, anchor charts, notebooking, bulletin boards and so much more from the days of yesteryear:


Vintage American Indian Hunting & Gathering Food Activity Pack


DIG this PDF link from a 2001 Boy's Life magazine on how arrows were made. We were trippin':

Arrow Making from Boy's Life PDF 

We also made some of our fav American Indian recipes from our vintage Indian Cooking Books:

Since my hubby is an American Indian, we use these books often & GUESS WHAT??!!! You can too as I found them on Amazon & eBay! SWEEEET! Check them out:

 


Or find it on eBay:

American Indian & Herb Lore





 You can find these on the same link from eBay:

Indian Cookin  


Every year I set up my vintage American Indian Village for interactive play.  For over 20 years my children and grandbabes have enjoyed many hours of much fun playing with this set. It has become a Thanksgiving tradition in our home: 

Here is the FREEBIE you are looking for. A genuine vintage American Indian family at meal time coloring page from our Vintage American Indian Hunting & Gathering Activity Pack:

Here is the quick link, ENJOY!

 Vintage American Indian Meal Coloring Page FREEBIE!

Well, that is another section of our American Unit down, more to come so be sure to come back soon for MORE of our American Indian Unit studies.

Next week we will be covering American Indian Communication:

American Indian Unit Part 4 - Communication

See you there!  

C.S. Calkins

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