NCSS C3 Lesson Segment Title:

Native American and European Colonist Government

Compelling Question

Were the Native Americans more democratic than the Europeans who
colonized America?
Social Studies and
4.2 NATIVE AMERICAN GROUPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT:
NCSS C3 Standards Native American groups, chiefly the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) and
Algonquian-speaking groups, inhabited the region that became New
York State. Native American Indians interacted with the environment
and developed unique cultures.(Standards: 1, 3, 5; Themes: ID, MOV,
GEO, GOV)
Students will listen to a story with the theme that things arent always
Staging the Question as they seem making a connection of their knowledge of the Native
American and Colonists government.
Supportive Question
Supporting Question
Supportive Question

What were the differences in

the Native American and
Colonists government that we
read?

Based on the documents what

can we learn about the
difference in womens role in
the Native American and
Colonists government?

Formative Task

Formative Task

Students will participate in a

Read and Retell activity. They
will complete a venn diagram
comparing and Contrasting
The Iroquois and Colonists.
Sources
Brain Pop Video

Students will independently

analyze four documents and
answer questions based on the
documents.

Summative
Performance Task

Students will participate in a

History Alive: Act it out
activities that depicts two
meetings between the Iroquois
and Colonist government.
Sources
History Alive!

Sources
2 primary sources
Youtube
2 secondary sources
Argument Students will write a debate between a Native American
and Europeans Colonist on who was more democratic.
Extension

Taking Informed
Action

How can we bring to life the

difference between the
differences between the
Native American and
Colonists in regards to
government?
Formative Task

Students will act out the debate they wrote between a

Native American and European Colonist.

Understand
Students will
understand that
the Native
American
culture we

Assess
Students will asses
that Native
American children
face the concerns
as they do in
growing up, but

Act
Through an established
pen pal program, students
will correspond with
Native Americans from
the Onondaga
Reservation.

studied is alive
and well in NY
State.

have different
challenges in
growing up on the
reservation