Research+Projects

Students may create Pictographs like the ones shown in Lakato Winter Counts from the Smithsonian Institute. Students may demonstrate their research in Native American sign language. Students can orally retell their stories and video the stories to make a movie. Students may create Storytelling dolls and retell the research learned about the tribe. Students may create artifacts and create a Native American Museum exhibit. Students may create Dream Catchers to tell their stories. Students may weave a rug and share their research through the weaving. Students may create a Native American Theme Park.
 * After students conduct their research they may choose from a menu of project ideas. **

This is sample Nez Perce Project. Students took notes on a chart from the book Nez Perce People of the Northwest by Ruby Maile. This is the blank chart. This is a sample of the completed chart.

The students then took the notes and turned the notes into sentences that they could tell to the class by using sign language. We videoed it two times. One time the kids just signed the sentence without speaking. They gave the class a chance to guess what they were saying. Then we showed the video with them signing the sentence and speaking while they signed.

This is a sample of the sentences that were created from our note taking.

These are some of the sample videos with the students speaking and signing. media type="file" key="tepee.MOV" width="300" height="300"media type="file" key="grassy plains.MOV" width="300" height="300"