How Did Plains Indians Solve The Problems Of Living On The Plains
How did the Plains Indians solve the problems of living on the Plains?
The first three lessons of this unit will lead up to an assessment which will look at your ability to select and combine information from different sources and to structure and organise this information in your work. You will be working in a group and individually to find out about the lives of the Plains Indians. The Great Plains were a hostile environment to live in and as a result the Plains Indians had to solve many problems in order to survive in this environment.
• The land was very dry so crops did not grow easily. How did the Plains Indians feed themselves? How did they dress themselves? • There were great extremes of temperature, with scorching summers, freezing winters and strong winds. How did the …show more content…
You will need to make clear and detailed notes as a mind map.
You will be able to find some information in your textbook and next lesson you will be using the Library to add to this.
You will write up your work individually. You will be producing an article for the Young Post explaining to readers how the Plains Indians solved the problems of living on the Plains. This should be no more than 2 sides of A 4 and it will be marked using the following mark scheme:
|For a D grade you will be able to briefly describe the problems of living on the Plains and describe some aspects of the Plains Indians lives. |
|Fails to link problem to appropriate solution. |
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|For a C grade you will be able to describe in detail the problems of living on the Plains and the solutions used by the Plains Indians. Links
The first three lessons of this unit will lead up to an assessment which will look at your ability to select and combine information from different sources and to structure and organise this information in your work. You will be working in a group and individually to find out about the lives of the Plains Indians. The Great Plains were a hostile environment to live in and as a result the Plains Indians had to solve many problems in order to survive in this environment.
• The land was very dry so crops did not grow easily. How did the Plains Indians feed themselves? How did they dress themselves? • There were great extremes of temperature, with scorching summers, freezing winters and strong winds. How did the …show more content…
You will need to make clear and detailed notes as a mind map.
You will be able to find some information in your textbook and next lesson you will be using the Library to add to this.
You will write up your work individually. You will be producing an article for the Young Post explaining to readers how the Plains Indians solved the problems of living on the Plains. This should be no more than 2 sides of A 4 and it will be marked using the following mark scheme:
|For a D grade you will be able to briefly describe the problems of living on the Plains and describe some aspects of the Plains Indians lives. |
|Fails to link problem to appropriate solution. |
| |
|For a C grade you will be able to describe in detail the problems of living on the Plains and the solutions used by the Plains Indians. Links