Adventures in Time and Place

Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 4: A Young Nation
Infographic #2: Native Americans, 1500s
Page 76

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1. Be an archeologist! Go to Homes of the Past: The Archaeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse.
http://www.rom.on.ca/digs/longhouse/longactivity.html

Explore the page. Then click Post Moulds.
Read this page and pages 2 and 3. Then click Explore the Site to go back.
Click Clues to Structural Use. Click each page to find out about Walls, Doors, and Apartments.
Continue in the same way to find out about Hearths and Storage Areas.

2. Now, discover the homes of some other early cultures. Go to Southern Plains Village Complexes in Oklahoma.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/D/Richard.R.Drass-1/

Read the introduction. Then, under the map, click Upper Canark Variant.
Read about the people who lived in this area. Then click Home.
Scroll down. Under the map, click Paoli/Washita River.
After you read the page, click Houses.
Click the small diagrams to see large views of Upper Carnack House Pattern and Paoli House Pattern.

Online Activity: Home Sweet Home
Compare and contrast the houses of the groups you read about. Complete the chart below by providing information about each of the housing features listed.

	Iroquois	Upper Carnack	Paoli/Washita River
1. Shape
2. Materials
3. Posts
4. Hearths
5. Storage
6. Entrances

Offline Activity: From Floor Plan to Home
Select one of the cultures from the Southern Plains Village Complexes in Oklahoma Web site. Think about what you've learned about this culture's people from clues about their diet, tools, pottery, and the patterns of their houses. Draw a picture of what one of their homes may have looked like. Include details of everyday life in your drawing. Share your drawings with your classmates. Compare the styles of the homes you and your classmates have drawn to the homes shown in the Infographic on page 76 of your textbook.