Unit Pacing Guide
A detailed 10-day teacher guide and pacing document for the Indiana Ancestors unit, outlining daily goals, materials, and standards alignment.
Vocab Vault Activity
A vocabulary worksheet where students define and illustrate key terms like indigenous, culture, and artifact to build foundational knowledge for the Indiana Ancestors unit.
Indiana Ancestors Slides
A visual presentation introducing the core concepts of the unit, including the definition of indigenous, the lifestyle of Paleo-Indians, and an overview of the three major mound-building cultures.
Paleo Pioneers Scholarly Article
A two-page scholarly-style article discussing the Paleo-Indian migration across the Bering Land Bridge, including detailed analysis of their culture and artifacts.
Field Journal Hopewell Trade
An expanded two-page field journal detailing the Hopewell culture's trade networks and artistic achievements, including notebook prompts for trade route mapping, artistic sketching, and logical inference.
Field Journal Adena Discovery
An expanded two-page archaeological field journal describing the Adena culture, featuring detailed text and multiple interactive student notebook prompts for sketches, diagrams, and analysis.
Vocab Vault Activity
A vocabulary worksheet where students define and illustrate key terms like indigenous, culture, and artifact to build foundational knowledge for the Indiana Ancestors unit.
Paleo Pioneers Scholarly Article
A two-page scholarly-style article discussing the Paleo-Indian migration across the Bering Land Bridge, including detailed analysis of their culture and artifacts.
Field Journal Adena Discovery
An expanded two-page archaeological field journal describing the Adena culture, featuring detailed text and multiple interactive student notebook prompts for sketches, diagrams, and analysis.
Field Journal Hopewell Trade
An expanded two-page field journal detailing the Hopewell culture's trade networks and artistic achievements, including notebook prompts for trade route mapping, artistic sketching, and logical inference.
Vocab Vault Activity
A vocabulary worksheet updated to include "prehistoric" along with indigenous, culture, and artifact to build foundational knowledge for the Indiana Ancestors unit.
Paleo Pioneers Scholarly Article
A scholarly-style article about Paleo-Indians and the Bering Land Bridge, emphasizing the meaning of "prehistoric" and comparing them to later mound-building cultures.
Field Journal Adena Discovery
An expanded field journal for the Adena culture, emphasizing their circular wooden homes, pottery, tools, and mounds, while explaining the term "prehistoric."
Field Journal Hopewell Trade
An expanded field journal for the Hopewell culture, focusing on their trade networks, circular homes, and geometric mounds, with an emphasis on the term "prehistoric."
