3rd Grade Native Americans Cultural Activities

❤️Looking for a creative and culturally appropriate way to celebrate Native American Heritage or Indigenous Peoples' Day in your classroom? Your students will love learning about the meaning of bears in Native American cultures, while making a beautiful Pacific Northwest-inspired craft and writing projects!

*This is a sample of the full resource. Get all 27 Indigenous animal crafts HERE!

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✏️Use the teaching materials to educate your students about traditional Pacific Northwest art, and the meaning of bears in Indigenous cultures.

✏️Works great as a social-emotional learning (SEL) activity!

✏️Craft is differentiated! There are several ways to make it including, coloring, drawing, painting, or decorating (cut and paste).

✏️Students can also choose from a variety of writing prompts, and writing project options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)

✏️Use these projects to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' creativity!

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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art, social studies), whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs, and more!

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!

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✅ Includes: (22 pages)

Teaching Materials: (3 pages)

☑ Cultural information guide (2 pages)

☑ Bear meaning (1 page)

Craft Projects: (9 pages)

☑ Craft directions (3 pages)

☑ Craft pieces (3 pages)

☑ Craft example (1 page)

☑ Craft body templates (1 page)

☑ Craft body art pieces (1 page)

Writing Projects: (10 pages)

☑ Informative writing - brainstorming sheet (1 page)

☑ "Bear" tracing - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "Bear" or trait - blank dotted lines (2 pages)

☑ "Bear" or trait - blank solid lines (2 pages)

☑ "My Animal Symbol" - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)

☑ Full blank page - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)

✅ Bonus: (24 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (1 page)

☑ Black and white set (22 pages)

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This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.

• When is Thanksgiving?
• Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?
• When did Thanksgiving become a holiday?
• Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
• What was the first Thanksgiving?
• Why is Thanksgiving important?