Lesson Plan Supplemental Materials

Historic Tribes of Ohio Lesson Plan-4th Grade Social Studies

The fourth-grade year focuses on the early development of Ohio and the United States. In this lesson, student will focus on learning about the historic tribes, which occupied Ohio during the 1700’s. By the end of the lesson, they should know the following about each of the tribes: where they came from, famous leaders, language, types of homes, culture and fun facts about each tribe. The students will be using laptop computers to do the research. The students will be organized into small groups/tribes to gather information about an assigned tribe and create a Glogster page about it. Students will be given a ruberic to follow when creating their project. Each tribe will share the information with their classmates and an informal post-assessment game called Historic Tribe jeopardy will be played to find out what the students learned.

Sample Student Glog-Iroquois Tribe.
The student groups will use an online web app called Glogster to design an informational page highlighting key points about their individual tribe. Students will share the final Glogster products with each other in class.  Students will be assessed as a group according to the criteria in the Ruberic.

Glogster Ruberic-Click here
Student Pre-Assessment Quiz
This quiz has been made using Google Forms. The students are given a word bank of four options for each question. There are 25 questions on the quiz. This can be converted to a paper format or taken on-line by the students. Students will be pre-assigned reading about Historic Tribes in their social studies books. When they come into the classroom for the first day’s lesson, they will complete an online pre-assessment quiz on what they have already learned.



Post-Assessment Jeopardy Game
A post assessment group game created online will be conducted to assess what the children learned about the tribes. This game was made using the web app called Jeopardy Labs. Students will use the buzz in game called Eggspert to compete for points for their tribe.

Iroquois Story Cube Link-Sample

The teacher will send home story cubes generated by online free software cube creator on Read Think Write. The study information on the cube will be obtained from the pre-assessment quiz. The student will be asked to cut and put together the story cube at home. This information will serve as review activity at home for what the children read in their social studies book. This information will help them when they play “Jeopardy”. On the last day of class.

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