Idaho Social Studies 3.SS.1.2
The Standard
Analyze distinctive foods, clothing styles, and traditions of various cultural groups within the community, including but not limited to the five federally recognized tribes of Idaho.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find examples of foods, clothing styles, and traditions in accounts from community groups and Idaho tribes. They compare details from different groups and use the accounts to support what they say.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name a detail from each of two groups and explain a similarity or difference. They can point to the words or caption that support the comparison without assuming every member of a group does the same thing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake clothing worn for a ceremony for everyday clothing or assume all Idaho tribes share the same customs. They may assign a food or tradition to a group based on a picture without checking its caption.
How to Assess It
- Give students two captioned food photos from different groups’ own websites. Ask: “What is one difference between the foods? Circle words in each caption that support your answer.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print captioned pictures of a dish, a garment, and a celebration from groups’ own pages; pairs sort them and label each source.
Read two tribes’ descriptions of celebrations; ask, “What differs in the activities, and which words tell you?”
Match tribe-authored detail cards to the Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Shoshone-Bannock, and Shoshone-Paiute tribes; quote supporting words.
Read a local cultural event flyer; students identify the host group and a food or tradition named on the flyer.
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