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Summary and Objective
Students will focus on a Native American legend and choose happenings in the story to design their pop-up pictures. The students will find events in the story that will be easy to depict in this type of pop-up design.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Students will read (or will have read to them) a selection of Native American legends about the origin of corn.
Step 2.
Discuss as a class where each legend originated and specifics of the Native group that created that legend.
Step 3.
Students will examine tools used by Native Americans to process corn so as to understand their methods in preparing corn.
Step 4.
Using maps and illustrations that depict that landscape and the Native people living there, students will design their idea of the terrain.
Step 5.
Use the Pop-up book directions web site to take the students through the process of making a pop-up book based on a Native American legend about the origins of corn.
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