Lesson Plan #7
Field Trip
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA
(Information sheet attached)
Grade: 3
Unit: Wampanoag Tribe
Goal: (*Enduring Understandings)
Students will discover the Wampanoags relied greatly on the land and used resources from the natural environment for survival.*
Essential Questions:
What natural resources did the Wampanoags rely on? How were these resources utilized?
Resources:
Station sheets for each student (see attached)
Development and
Selection of Activities:
¨ Students will begin the field trip in the main lodge with a “pow-wow” during which they will hear a legend read aloud.
¨ Students will participate in a discussion about legends.
¨ Students will go to the Native American museum and view various Native American artifacts.
¨ Students will choose one artifact from each station and illustrate it in their notebook. They will also record new information.
¨ Students will return to the main lodge to share their information in small groups.
¨ Break for lunch
¨ Students will walk with the group to the Native American site located in the woods.
¨ Students will break into small groups accompanied by an adult.
¨ Students will explore the Native American site and discover various artifacts such as a canoe, wigwam, animal skin left out to dry, etc.
¨ Students will gather as a group and participate in a discussion led by the Fruitlands educator. Discussion topics include: How do you think this canoe was made? What do you think caused the black inside the canoe? Why do you think the animal skin is stretched out and hanging? If you were a Native American living in this site what kinds of jobs would you have? What parts of nature do you see being used for shelter in this site?
¨ Students will return to the lodge for a final discussion and questions.
Content:
(Some information retrieved
from www.fruitlands.org)
¨ Native people recall their past through stories told from each generation to the next.
¨ Archaeologists learn about the past by looking at the material remains of past cultures.
¨ These two ways of knowing provide different perspectives on the past. Each perspective complements the other to teach us about the past.
¨ Woodland period people were the first to make pottery
¨ Native Americans made their canoes by burning the inside.
¨ Native Americans used resources from the land to make tools necessary for survival.
Curriculum Standard:
“Explain how objects or artifacts of everyday life in the past tell us how ordinary people lived and how everyday life has changed.”
Assignment:
¨ For each artifact you drew at the museum stations, answer the following questions:
1. What natural resource(s) were used to make it?
2. How was the artifact used by the Native Americans?
How will the
understanding of the essential question be assessed?
¨ The essential questions will be formally assessed by means of students’ written work. Student papers will be collected the following day and assessed by the teacher. Students must have an illustration or written information on a particular artifact from each station. Students will be assessed on accuracy of artifact information. They must answer both questions from the assignment. If a student is missing information from any of the stations in the museum, there will be a result of lowered grade.