Elementary Language Arts

Body Parts

Grade Level:

Kindergarten

Subject Areas:

• Technology/Culture
• Language
• Art

Objectives:

• To become familiar with parts of the body
• To be able to name the body parts in both Navajo and English
• To be able to identify the body and its parts using student art
• To become familiar with creating HyperStudio stacks

Technology Equipment and Skills Needed:

• Butcher paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, illustrations of body parts
• Student-created Hyperstudio stacks on parts of the body
• Outside resources: Field trip to local health center, visit from local medicine people, grandparents (foster grandparents)

Lesson Overview:

This lesson is a thematic unit geared at kindergarten students, with the lesson focused on identifying and naming parts of the body in Navajo and English. The lesson will begin with teachers and students making a KWL chart.

The teacher questions the students about body part terms to find out if they know more of the words in Navajo or English. The lesson will begin with focusing on the language the students know best.

Students trace their body shapes on butcher paper. Then they glue on body part pictures provided by the teacher in the outline they have drawn. Students will then label the parts in both Navajo and English.

Students will examine a Hyperstudio stack created by the teacher that has a few cards containing a digital picture of a body part with its Navajo and English names in text. When students click on the words, they can hear the Navajo or English names. Students will then create new cards of body parts of their choosing.

Cultural Content:

This lesson will be used for introduction of body part names in Navajo and English.

Other Background Information for Teacher:

The Navajo language is very complex in terms of "whose" body part you are talking about. In this lesson, the focus will be on the individual self; pronunciation of the word will be for the personal self only. For example: Eyes - I'nna.

Assessment:

• Students will be assessed on correctly labeling body parts in English and Navajo
• Students will be assessed on their HyperStudio cards.

Body Parts

Grade Level:

Kindergarten

Subject Areas:

• Technology/Culture
• Language
• Art

Objectives:

• To become familiar with parts of the body
• To be able to name the body parts in both Navajo and English
• To be able to identify the body and its parts using student art
• To become familiar with creating HyperStudio stacks

Technology Equipment and Skills Needed:

• Butcher paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, illustrations of body parts
• Student-created Hyperstudio stacks on parts of the body
• Outside resources: Field trip to local health center, visit from local medicine people, grandparents (foster grandparents)

Lesson Overview:

This lesson is a thematic unit geared at kindergarten students, with the lesson focused on identifying and naming parts of the body in Navajo and English. The lesson will begin with teachers and students making a KWL chart.

The teacher questions the students about body part terms to find out if they know more of the words in Navajo or English. The lesson will begin with focusing on the language the students know best.

Students trace their body shapes on butcher paper. Then they glue on body part pictures provided by the teacher in the outline they have drawn. Students will then label the parts in both Navajo and English.

Students will examine a Hyperstudio stack created by the teacher that has a few cards containing a digital picture of a body part with its Navajo and English names in text. When students click on the words, they can hear the Navajo or English names. Students will then create new cards of body parts of their choosing.

Cultural Content:

This lesson will be used for introduction of body part names in Navajo and English.

Other Background Information for Teacher:

The Navajo language is very complex in terms of "whose" body part you are talking about. In this lesson, the focus will be on the individual self; pronunciation of the word will be for the personal self only. For example: Eyes - I'nna.

Assessment:

• Students will be assessed on correctly labeling body parts in English and Navajo
• Students will be assessed on their HyperStudio cards.

Native Americans' Adaptation to Their Environment

Grade Level:

5th Grade

Subject Areas:

• Language Arts
• Social Studies

Objectives:

• Identify the Native American tribes that live in the region.
• Locate on state map the area where each tribe lives.

Technology Equipment and Skills Needed:

• Computer with CD-ROM Drive
• Grolier's Encyclopedia

Lesson Overview:

1. Draw a large picture of web on the chalkboard. Display the maps of the regions, hand out copy of the map to each student. Have them locate the regions.

2. Ask students what they know about Native Americans. write their answers on chart paper.

Cultural Content:

Student will become familiar with tribes in the region being studied.

Other Background Information for Teacher:

This is Lesson One of a fifteen lesson unit.

Assessment:

Teacher observation of students.