Indiana Social Studies 5.H.3
The Standard
Compare and contrast historic Native American groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare Native communities living in different regions around 1500. They use maps and accounts of food, homes, and daily life to find similarities and differences.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can locate groups such as the Hopi, Pawnee, and Inuit on a map. They can explain that both Hopi and Pawnee people grew corn, but used different ways to farm in their regions.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat all Native communities in a region as one group. They may picture Plains communities riding horses around 1500, before horses became part of life on the Plains.
How to Assess It
- Give students short source cards about the Hopi and Pawnee. Ask: Around 1500, how were their food sources alike and different? Use one detail from each card.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank map and seven community cards; have them place each card in its region and mark a nearby resource.
Ask students to write two sentences comparing Hopi and Pawnee farming, using a detail from each source card.
Play a matching game with region, community, and food-source cards; have students explain one completed match.
Compare a local rainfall map with a Southwest rainfall map, then discuss why Hopi farmers needed ways to manage water.
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