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100 BEST Hands-on Free Native American Resources

November 13, 2014 | 12 Comments
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Today I have a round up of 100 free Native American resources.

We are fascinated with learning about so many different regions of the Native Americans as well as their proud past, fascinating hands-on activities, and understanding their language.

I have divided this page by learning category to make it easier for you to locate the kind of activity you are looking to do.

100 BEST Hands-on Free Native American Resources

Check out my round up and I hope a few of these ideas spark a creative touch for you when it comes to learning about Native Americans.

Table of Contents

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  • Native American Arts, Crafts, and Activities
  •  Books About Native Americans
  • Clip Art about Native Americans
  • Native American Coloring Pages
  • Native American Dioramas
  • Native American Lapbooks
  •  Native American Lesson Plans
  • HOW TO EASILY BRING HISTORY ALIVE
      • 0. Westward Expansion History Fun 10 Coloring Pages

        0. Westward Expansion History Fun 10 Coloring Pages

        $1.75
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  • Science, Sign Language, Folks Tales, & MORE!
  • Native American Printables for Kids
  • Native Americans Recipes
  • Teacher’s Guides For Studying Native Americans
  • Native American Unit Studies
  • You Tube, Media, Interactive

Native American Arts, Crafts, and Activities

There’s no doubt that much of the focus on doing a Native American unit study should be hands-on activities. This round up of arts, crafts, and activities covers a bit for each age.

  • Create a Listening Doll
  • Simple Inuit Crafts
  • Make a Fun Birchbark Canoe Craft
  • Frugal DIY Easy Corn Shaker
  • Build An Indoor Campfire
  • Paper Weaving Indian Corn
  • Bubble Wrap Indian Corn
  • Make a Wampum Belt
  • Dream Catcher with hearts
  • Make an Animal Hide with Brown Paper Bag
  • Small Drums out of Salt Container
  • Piper Cleaner Wigwam
  • Native American Vest with Brown Paper Bag, Foil and ribbon
  • Cherokee Rattle Craft
  • How To Make Native American Dress Up
  • Paper Satchel
  • Storytelling with Stones
  • Tiny bow and “Safe”Arrow
  • Make Authentic Arrows
  • Cornhusk Doll, Pinch Pot, Early American Weaving
  • Make Indian Paper Beaded Necklace
  • Edible Mini Indian Corn
  • Recycled Turtle Shell Rattle
  • 5 Activities for Native American History

 Also, you’ll love these other unit studies to go with this study of the Native Americans. The NaturExplorers science series are for multiple ages and gives you several topics to choose from. We loved the the fruits and nuts.

Our Journey Westward

In addition, you’ll love these books about Native Americans. Some are about the Trail of Tears and a few others we loved.

 Books About Native Americans

Books About the Trail of Tears

Furthermore incorporating a living books approach to geography by Beautiful Feet brings learning about this time period alive.

You’ll love this learning Geography through Literature approach when learning about Native Americans.

Furthermore, adding a few clip art sources and some coloring pages allows you to add these resources for a unit study or just as enrichment in your study.

Clip Art about Native Americans

  • Pic of Native Americans
  • Clip Art, Etc.

Native American Coloring Pages

  • Native American coloring pages for adults
  • 52 Page Learn About Texas Indians Coloring & Activity Book
  • Native American Coloring Pages

Native American Dioramas

  • A Fun Cradleboard Craft
  • Teepee Indian Village Diorama
  • Many ideas here for studying the Cherokee
  • A variety of Native American Dioramas

Then have you seen this unit study at Home School in the Woods?

This unit study that would compliment the Native American unit and it is a Colonial Unit Study and Lapbook over at Home School in the Woods which is one our favorite hands-on history programs.

Native American Lapbooks

  • Iroquois Lapbook
  • Squanto Lapbook
  • Plains Indians
  • French and Indian War Lapbook
  • Iroquois Lapbook
  • The Inuit And Arctic Region Lapbook
  • Meso-America Lapbook
Our Journey Westward

Too, I have included some lesson plans below in case you want to study another topic or use it for a jumping off point.

 Native American Lesson Plans

  • Plains Indian
  • Native Americans Elementary Lesson
  • Images of Woodland Indians Grades 7 – 12
  • Not Just Another Native American Lesson Plan Grade 2
  • Our Native Americans Grade 3
  • Taming the Frontier Grades 9  – 12
  • English Indian Encounters Grades 9 – 12
  • Native Americans and World War 11 Grades 9 – 12
  • American Indian Art Grade 3

HOW TO EASILY BRING HISTORY ALIVE

Also, coloring is an easy way to bring any subject alive. You may love history coloring pages.

Here is what the 10 page download contains.

I put a few key words to explain each picture on the page. This way you can use the coloring pages as title pages too.

Page 3:  Native American on horseback,
4: Lewis and Clark Trek,
5: Lewis and Clark and The Piegan,
6: Lewis and Clark Exploring Rivers,
7: The Plains Indians,
8: Pioneer Life,
9: Moving West, 10: Westward Ho,
11: Settlers, and
12: Fur Trappers and Mountainmen

Grab your fun copy below!

  • 0. Westward Expansion History Fun 10 Coloring Pages

    0. Westward Expansion History Fun 10 Coloring Pages

    $1.75
    Add to cart

Science, Sign Language, Folks Tales, & MORE!

  • Round up of Native American Symbols
  • Acorn Use by California Native Americans
  • Guide for Marking Horses in Battle
  • The Cherokee Alphabet and How to Use It
  • Venn Diagram Illustration – Colonist and Native Americans
  • Native American Folktales
  • Native American Cinderella
  • The WampanoagTribe
  • Native American Sign Language

Native American Printables for Kids

  • Writing Prompts
  • Free Leather Craft Patterns
  • Free Poster and Predictions
  • Color Canoe, Paper Figures
  • Tribal Regions of the United States
  • Native American Tribes Word Search
  • Native American Form to Write a Report
  • Read Kansas! Middle School – M-7 Indian Removal to the Great American Desert

Native Americans Recipes

  • Native American Recipes
  • Ojibwe Fry Bread Recipe
  • Cherokee Garden Pan Bread
  • Apache Corn Soup to Zuni Corn Soup

Teacher’s Guides For Studying Native Americans

  • Native American Pottery Making Methods 3-12
  • We Have A Story To Tell Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region Grades 9-12
  • Plains Indians Teacher Guide
  • Infectious Disease Grade 6 – 8
  • Native American Lesson Plans 6 – 12

Native American Unit Studies

  • Native Americans by Region
  • Native American Cherokee and Shawnee
  • Free Native American Unit Study
  • Native American Unit Study
  • Montessori Inspired Native American Unit Study
  • Upper Elementary Native American Unit Study

You Tube, Media, Interactive

  • Story Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
  • Music – Earth Songs
  • The Math Catcher stories are free and are a great combination of math and Native American culture.
  • America Before Columbus
  • What Can You Make From a Buffalo
  • Art and History Images separated by region

What do you think?  I think I will keep adding to this growing list as I discover new gems for studying about Native Americans.

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  1. Lowana says

    October 12, 2017 at 10:28 am

    OH MY GOODNESS! You’re you’re going to explode my phone witb all this wondwrfull curriculum! Thank you so much and can’t wait to download ALL!

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