Community-Based Lesson Plans for Elementary Students |
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| Title: | Learning and Remembering Our Language Through Storytelling |
| Subject(s): | Interdisciplinary Studies, Acoma Keres Language |
| Grade(s) | Kindergarten |
| Description: | The Kindergarten teachers and the students will share storytelling activities with their schoolmates, parents and community. Community members fl uent in the Acoma Keres language will share traditional stories. Parents and other community members will share personal experience stories. The project goal is to revitalize storytelling as a way to teach the values of language, as well as culture and its underlying lessons. Students engage in “buddy storytelling” (cross-age) and follow-up activities. The students -- through puppetry, drama and dance -- will share a culminating performance for the community, parents and schoolmates. |
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| Title: | Students/Elders Storytelling/Reading |
| Subject(s): | Language Arts, Reading and Writing |
| Grade(s) | K-3 |
| Description: | Grandparents and Elders of the community participate in a cultural
exchange with students in grades K -- 3 in sharing and speaking the
Keres language of Zia Pueblo. Elders share their stories/legends of
their community experiences. The Elders also share their expertise in
Native crafts such as drumming and songs, embroidery, Native cooking,
and jewelry making. The sharing of information is conducted in the Keres language with students immersed in language acquisition skills. |
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| Title: | Traditional Dance and Costume Design |
| Subject(s): | Language, Reading, Arts, Tiwa Language and Math |
| Grade(s) | K-3 |
| Description: | Students in grades K -- 3 study and learn traditional pow-wow dances and learn to make costumes such as grass dance outfi ts, shawls or bibs for dancing. The program helps to reinforce the Native Tiwa language. Students work with a Native artist from the community. The costumes will be used in a culminating pow-wow for Native American Week in April and also produce a performance for the Taos Pueblo Elders residing at the Taos Living Center (Senior Retirement Home). Children isplay respect toward their Elders by sharing their cultural knowledge and wisdom. |
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| Title: | Empowering the Community: Children's Library Services |
| Subject(s): | Language Arts and Library Skills |
| Grade(s) | K-6 |
| Description: | Storytelling at Santa Clara Day School by community Elders is a way
to preserve the oral history of the Pueblo and provide a means for
permanent integration of local culture into the curriculum. An important
aspect of the project is to create a video archive of all storytelling
activities. The purpose of the project is to keep local traditions alive.
These include dancing, hunting and speaking the Native language, Tewa. |
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| Title: | Constellation Observation |
| Subject(s): | Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Technology and Math |
| Grade(s) | K-6 |
| Description: | The community of Santa Clara and the Santa Clara Day School participate in experiences related to constellations and the solar system. Storytelling activities shared by community members will help to reinforce classroom learning. Students have the opportunity to create a planetarium, identify individual constellations, and then view them through a telescope. Community members share legends and folklore associated with the constellations. |
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| Title: | San Diego Farm Project -- Horno Component |
| Subject(s): | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Grade(s) | K-8 |
| Description: | The farm project is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary unit involving all grades in the process of cultivating and harvesting crops Native to the community, creating marketable produce/products from the crops and selling the goods produced through this process. Students learn traditional farming and food preparation methods by interacting with community members. The horno project involves the process of building a traditional horno teaching students its varied uses in baking traditional Pueblo foods utilizing the crops that are grown by the students. |
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| Title: | Pit to Pot |
| Subject(s): | Math, Science, Tiwa Language and Culture and Technology |
| Grade(s) | K-8 |
| Description: | Established Goal(s): The student will understand how natural resources of the community are collected, used, and respected by the people of Taos Pueblo to make traditional Pottery; The students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read, heard, and viewed during pottery demonstrations; the students will communicate effectively through speaking and writing about the pottery process; the students will compare and contrast various techniques in pottery making such as coil, pinch, and wheel; the students will understand the concept of location by using and constructing maps, and other geographic tools to identify the environments visited to collect clay. |
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