Woodland Period: Categorizing

Overview!

Students will understand the progression of the Woodland Period.

(Time: 50 minutes)

Content Objectives!

1) Students will use their answers from the previous prediction sheet to predict the categories (Early, Middle and Late) of new facts about the Woodland Period.

2) Students will appropriately re-categorize the facts after reading the text about the three parts of the Woodland Period.

Assessment Strategies!

1) Appropriate prediction of categories prior to reading

2) Reading comprehension

3) Matching facts with text

Materials!

- Copies of Prediction Sheet PDF document
- Copies of Factual Statements about the Woodland Period PDF document
- Copies of Answer Key PDF document
- Copies of Graphic Organizer PDF document
- Copies of Woodland Period PDF document

Procedures!

1) This activity will be done in groups created for the first lesson (Woodland Period: Predictions).

2) Teacher will give each group one copy of the Factual Statements about the Woodland Period (fact sheet) and ask them to use the previously worked Prediction Sheet as a reference. Students are to predict which of the facts belong to which period. Allot an appropriate amount of time.

3) Next, students will read the PDF text ‘Woodland Period in Pennsylvania’, find facts from the fact sheet in it and re-categorize them in the Graphic Organizer in case they have made a mistake in the first step. Allot an appropriate amount of time.

4) Teacher will either read from the Factual Statements about the Woodland Period − Answer Key or give copies of this answer key to each group to corroborate their responses.

5) Teacher and students together will recap what the food, tools and utensils, burial rituals and society were like in the three periods of the Woodland Period.