Environments

To begin our study of Native Americans, we explored some regions of North America. Our class is going to focus on the Eastern Woodlands, in particular. The two other fourth grade classes are studying other regions. Once our environment was built, the other classes visited to observe and draw some conclusions about what resources in the natural environment would have been used to meet the basic human needs of food, clothing and shelter. Now we're focusing on how the Natives used the natural resources in our specific region, and the students are researching and building artifacts to exhibit. Eventually, we'll be exploring the period of contact between the Natives from our region and European explorers.

(This is a model of a muskrat.)