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**Native American Indian Designs and Symbol Guide** [|**http://buckagram.com/buck/symbols/**] This website is helpful when you are intergrading the arts into social studies. It discusses the meaning of symbols and designs used in the Native American crafts. The symbols and designs represent specific ideas and cultural expression, which the Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo, and Zuni artists use.
 * Allison Taubman:**

**All About Native Americans** [] This websites provides you with numerous links that cover general information on Native American Indians. All the websites supply helpful information to use in the classroom such as, projects, photos, recipes, literate, geometry, and history of Native American Indians.

**Teacher Guide To Native Americans** [] Teacher Guide To Native American discusses key facts that every teacher should know when teaching lessons on Native American Indians. In addition to discussing information that will help teachers a guide through a successful lesson on Native Americans the site also provides additional link to workbooks, worksheets, backgrounds, and lesson plans.


 * Caitlin Cummings:**

**Native Americans:** []

This site contains different links that can be beneficial to teachers when they want to research different Native American tribes for lessons. The site divides the North America into 6 regions for Indians (Northwest, Southwest, Northern Plains, Southern Plains, Northeast, and Southeast). Each link within those sub-categories is an informational link about the respected tribes.

**Native American Facts for Kids:** []

This site contains various links to fact sheets. For example, under Native American Homes provides descriptions and pictures of 10 different types of American Indian homes. Further down the page are links to fact sheets on specific tribes. In the specific links, there are a number of questions that provide important answers to really understand that tribe. Near the end of the page are other links that allow you to learn more about that tribe.

**Native American Chart:** []

This was the first site that I found for our unit plan. It is a great organizational chart for many different tribes within the United States. Each column represents a key part in understanding each tribe (habitat, homes, dress, food, customs, art, tools/weapons, and famous Native Americans). This would be very useful in reconstructing a chart for students to have and study.

**Native American Facts for Kids** [| http://www.native-languages.org/kids.htm] The website was designed to provide simple online information about American Indians in an easy-to-read question and answer format. There is no animation, no games, or no music but this is so the website will run faster and work for everyone�s computers. There is so many different topics you can browse through and so much information on Native Americans. I really liked how there was so many facts and so much detail. It really will help your students learn about Native Americans. This website can be used for the teacher and/or the students.
 * Sami Mandel:**

**Online Native American Activities for Kids ** [] The website is a good resource for teachers to use when they are on the unit of Native Americans. There are different games you can do with your students and coloring pages you can give them to complete. Also there are plays and skits that you can use. Also there a Native American songs, dances, and rituals. There are worksheets, poems and rhymes, Native American tales and stories, and books. I really enjoyed this website and thought it had a lot of great information and tools you could use.

**The Topic: American Indians ** [] This website has tons of resources available for this topic. It is separated in three different topics which are: Biographies of American Indians, American Indian Tribes and Cultures, and Indian Battles, Movements and Events. It describes what Indians are in an easy way for lower grade level students and then a more in detailed way for upper grade level students. There are a ton of websites listed and there is a little paragraph explaining each website. This website would be a great tool for teachers teaching this unit.

Na**tNative Americans in Olden Times** []. This is a teacher created website for children. It talks about where the Native Americans started and where the different tribes are located. It also goes into culture of the Native Americans. This website is very easy to use and kid friendly. ** Native American KinderCrafts ** []. This is a website giving instructions on how to create many different crafts that have to do with the Native American culture and living. They are all made very simply and mostly from household objects. ** Native American Activities ** []This website is full of lots of activities about Native Americans. There is something here for all ages from coloring sheets to word searches. There are also games, music, and Indian name games.
 * Lindsay Daski **

Lau**Lauren Bartolomucci**  **Native American Info** [] “Native Americans” gives many different link about American Indians in general. Totem poles, American west, trail of tears, Sacajawea, and peaceful spirit are just a few of the many links on this website.

**Native American Food** [] “Native Recipes” is a site that has many recipes that Indians used. The teacher and students can look at it together for discussion. The teacher could even bring in ingredients for the students to make some of the recipes.

**Native American Shelters** [] “Native American Shelters” is a great interactive website. The teacher can choose a region of the United States and then view the different style of shelters that were present there. There are also pictures with description for each region.