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Social Studies Lesson Plan
Title: Native Americans in the Revolutionary War
Subject/Grade Level/ Date(s): Social Studies/4th Grade/ March 25th, 2019
Time Requirements: 4560mins
Materials List: iPads, Chart Paper, Markers,
Type of Lesson: Small Group (3 students)
Connection to Standards:
Social Studies Standards:
4.SP1.3 – Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical
events.
o Key individuals may include but are not limited to explorers, leaders (Mesoamerican,
American Indian, and political), settlers, women, landowners, organizations, colonists,
missionaries, and enslaved and free Africans.
4.SP3.3 – Generate questions about multiple sources and their relationships to events and
developments in the Americans.
4.H2.1. Describe the cycles of conflict and compromise that occurs in the Americans during the
convergence of Europeans, American Indians, and Africans in the Americas before and after
European explorations.
Writing Standards:
4.SL.4 – Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount experience in an organized manner, using
appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at
an understandable pace.
Instructional Objective:
Students Will Be Able To:
Recall important information about the American Revolution
Analyze the significance of the Native Americans during the American Revolutionary War.
Explain why the Native Americans chose sides in the American Revolutionary War.
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Active Instructional Plan:
Set up:
Teacher will create groups of three students, for a total of seven groups. Teacher will have each group an
assigned Native Tribe.
Introduction:
Teacher will display photographs of Native Americans in different American wars, in different eras.
Teacher will than tell the students the following directions:
On a postit paper, write a Notice and Wonder about the photos you looked at.
Teacher will ask the following questions about the photograph”
“What do you notice? What catches your eye? What stands out? What details do you see?”
“What do you wonder about these photographs?”
When done discussing photograph, teacher will pose the content framing question and read it out loud in a
choral reading.
Framing Question: Reveal – What are the significances of the Native Americans during the American
Revolution?
Teach (modeling):
Students will be working in groups of three.
Teacher will explain to students that there are many different tribes in the United States, and before we
Natives out in the West were discovered there were other tribes that were a part of American History before
the Americas became the Americas. Many tribes in the East were involved in the American Revolution and
chose sides during the wars.
Ask the following:
“What we want to know is, which tribes were involved in the American Revolution? Were they on the
Colonists side of the British, and why?”
Active Engagement: (Guided Practice):
Introduce to the students a US map of Native American tribes today, and then introduce a map of Native
American tribes before the Americas were created.
Teacher will ask: “Talk with your group about what you notice?”
Teacher will explain to student’s what the lesson will be about.
Teacher will have students point out where the Boston Massacre was located, and find out which Native
American tribe is in Boston.
Teacher will ask students if they know how to use “Google”, and ask students use their iPads and Google
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any Native American Tribe that was a part of World War II.
Students will give teacher names of different tribes that were a part of WWII.
Teacher will explain to students that they will each be given a different Native American tribe that were a
part of the American Revolution War and find on the internet, information on that tribe.
Micmac Tribe – allied with Americans (Colonists)
StockbridgeMohican Tribe – allied with Americans (Colonists)
Shawnee Tribe – allied with British
Wyandot Tribe – allied with British
Oneida Tribe – allied with Americans (Colonists)
Mohawk Tribe – allied with British
Potawami Tribe – stayed neutral until 1778, allied with Americans
Independent Practice:
Students will use their iPads to find information on their assigned Native tribe.
Students will find out the following:
Who the tribe is?
Where are they located?
How were they a part of the American Revolution?
Were they on the Colonists side or the British side? Why?
Teacher will make sure students are writing in complete sentences and answering questions clearly.
When done giving directions, teacher will have students work on assigned work for 30 minutes.
Students will be grouped based on teachers’ knowledge.
Teacher will have students write down their information of their Tribe on chart paper.
Teacher will walk among students, offering help and making sure students are understanding the lesson
correctly.
Closure:
Students will share and present their work to their peers. Answering any questions that could be asked.
Teacher will then go back to the Content Framing Question: What are the significances of the Native
Americans during the American Revolution?
Modifications/Differentiation:
The ESS students are also allowed to draw a picture and verbally describe what they drew and
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explain why they drew it, in the language they are most comfortable in.
I will tell my student’s they shouldn’t focus on the spelling but rather the writing of their thoughts.
Teacher will offer any help to students that are having trouble searching for information on their
Tribe.
Extensions
Students can do a write a paragraph about what they have learned about all the Native American
Tribes that were researched today.
Students can make connections on their assigned Native Tribe to any other groups assigned Native
Tribe.