TABLE OF CONTENTS

PENNSYLVANIA’ S NATIVE  AMERICAN HERITAGE


*Assessing Your Students’ Conception of Native Americans
*Stepping Back into Time with the Jesuit and Moravian Missionaries
*Understanding the Diversity of Native American Cultures

*Recognizing Roots of Democracy in the Iroquois Confederacy

*Understanding the Importance of Wampum Belts
*Discovering Indian Contributions to American Medicine
*Imagining an Indian Childhood in Pennsylvania
*Introducing Your Students to the Delaware Language
*Holding a Pennsylvania Indian Festival Discovering Famous Indians in Pennsylvania.
*Practicing the Indian Art of Storytelling
*Learning from the Eloquence of the Indian Spoken Word
*Understanding the Value of Writing
*Becoming Historical Detectives
*Holding a Mock Trial for the Heirs of William Penn

 

 

FRONTIER LIFE IN PENNSYLVANIA
*Understanding the Importance of Flax
*Playing the Pennsylvania Tall Tales Game
*Hunting on the Frontier: Indian’s Approach vs. White Man’s
*Imagining Childhood on the Pennsylvania Frontier

*understanding the Impact of the Fur Trade

*African on the Pennsylvania Frontier

*putting on an Antiques Road Show

*Examining Whites in Captivity: The Story of Mary Jemison

*Learning About Women on the Frontier:
*Women’s Rights in Indian and European Cultures
*Examining God on the Frontier
*Ta a Journey on a Conestoga Wagon

*Going Back to the Days of the Pack Horse

 
 

 

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
*Learning How Less Can Be More

*Understanding the Role of Gift Giving in the French and Indian War

*Why Go to War Over a Beaver?
*Playing Peacemakers
*Exploring the Dangers of Stereotyping

*Examining the Life of a Soldier in the French and Indian War

*Underscoring the Importance of Truth in History
*Analyzing Leadership Skills

*Reflecting on the Power of Music

*Revisiting the Battle of Bushy Run
*Examining Pontiac’s Role in History

*Creating Tecumseh, the “Shooting Star”

*Discovering the Story of the 14 Colony

 
 

 

A TEN—DAY HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES UNIT
Day 1    The Pennsylvania Frontier
Day 2    The Fur Traders
Day 3    George Washington Travels to the Backwoods of Pennsylvania
Day 4     The Beginning of the French and Indian War
Day 5     Fort Necessity
Day 6     Braddock Becomes Commander- in-Chief

Day 7     Christian Frederick Post’s Diplomatic Mission

Day 8     Forbes Arrives at Fort Duquesne
 Day 9     Pontiac’s War, Siege of Fort Pitt,  Battle of Bushy Run
Day 10     Settlers in the Backwoods of Pennsylvania
 
 
 

 

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