Idaho Social Studies 4.SS.1.9

Social Studies4th GradeHistory

The Standard

Describe how American Indian tribes maintain resources, including cultural materials, history, language, and culture.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify ways American Indian tribes care for languages, stories, cultural objects, and traditions. They explain how teaching, recording, protecting, and practicing help keep these resources in use.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given an example from one tribe, a student names the resource and explains what people do to maintain it. They can explain that a language stays in use when people teach and speak it.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think tribal cultures exist only in the past or that all tribes share one language. They may think a museum is the only place cultural resources are kept, missing what families and communities teach and practice.
How to Assess It: Show a screenshot of a publicly shared Nez Perce Tribe language lesson. Ask: "What resource does this lesson help maintain, and how?"

Lesson moves

Give groups picture cards of a language class, protected beadwork, a recorded story, and a community gathering; sort them by the resource each maintains.
Ask students: "How can teaching a language help a tribe maintain it?" Have them write two sentences using the language lesson as evidence.
Play a matching game with cards showing a resource on one side and an action that maintains it on the other.
Open the Nez Perce Tribe's public language program page and have students find one way it helps people learn today.

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