SS Kit: Databases, Websites, and Primary Documents

Databases:

TrueFlix: American Indians Inuit

TrueFlix: Continents North America Explorer more First people
First Americans/Native Americans
Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost): Bering Strait (search terms) Article titled
Bering Strait yields trove of ancient relics by Yereth Rosen
eLibrary Elementary: Beringia (search terms) Article titled American
Indian Migratin Theory from the Hutchinson Encyclopedia
eLibaray Elementary: Beringia (search terms) Article titled Bridge to
Americas by William Updike

Websites:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/tribes.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/first-americans-mayhave-been-stuck-beringia-millennia-n40381
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-migrationpatterns-north-america-are-hidden-languages-spoken-today180950053/?no-ist
http://www.native-languages.org/bering.htm
http://www.humanjourney.us/america.html

Primary Documents:

http://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/pictures/select-list170.html (Six Eskimos standing beside a native skinboat in Alaska)

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/alaska/cancelled-check.html
(Alaska Purchase documents of the Bering Strait)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/tribes.html
(Photographic and journal documentation of life and culture of Native
Americans in North America)

Visual Discovery:

When students come into room, have desks set up in a semi-circle

around the front of the room (with a screen) and have students watch
video about Bering Strait. Before watching video, have screenshot of
an active image up and ask students what this makes them think of.

Take a virtual tour of a Native American village and ask students to fill
out a worksheet about what they notice about Native American
lifestyle and culture.
Have students put on a skit about what life would be like in a Native
American village, or the process of Native Americans crossing Beringia
and creating establishments