Contents
- Overview and Introduction
- Background on Choctaw Baskets
- Classroom Strategies
- Resources
- National Academic Standards
- Assessment
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CHOCTAW BASKETS: WEAVING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Overview and Introduction
Grades 5-8: Activities can be extended, deepened, or eliminated to provide differentiated instruction.
- Students develop research skills in science and history while gaining an understanding of one group of North America's indigenous people.
- Students become aware of the effects of changes in population on natural plant life ecology.
- Students understand the changes that occur in culture as a result of cultural interaction.
- Students reflect on personal and cultural history as they compare and contrast sharing of research.
Enduring Understandings and Big Ideas
- People of all cutures use natural resources to make tools, utensils, and household necessities.
- People of all cultures have talented artisans.
- A group's use of natural resources is affected by the ecological balance of a place.
- Overpopulation, lumbering, and farming affect the ecological balance of a place.
Essential Questions
- How are basket-making methods similar and different in various Native American tribes?
- How has the use of Choctaw baskets changed from the past to modern times?
- What are the steps in the process of making a Choctaw basket?
- How has increased population, lumbering, and farming affected canebrakes (river cane) and in turn the Native American culture?
Time required
These lesson will take 4-8 class periods or teacher choice. Lessons can be used as group or individual activities.
Classroom resources
- Computer access
- Internet access
- PowerPoint software
- U.S. map
- Art paper
- Colored pipe cleaners
- Graph paper
- Markers/pencils/colored pencils/etc.
- Scissors
- Venn diagram template
Learning Objectives
- Students will describe the geographical location and ecosystem of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
- Students will investigate the ecology of canebrakes and discover their ecological and historical importance.
- Students will investigate the process of making a Choctaw basket from harvesting the cane to the finished product.
- Students will compare and contrast Choctaw and Cherokee baskets using a Venn digaram. This can be extended to include many other tribes if needed for group work or to incorporate tribes in students' area.
- Students will read and discuss a short story written by a Native Amercan author.
- Students will investigate the uses of Choctaw baskets in the past and in modern times.
- Students will use symmetry to design and create a basket drawing.
- Students will do hands-on art by weaving a paper basket or making a basket from a purchased kit.
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