Grade 4

Native Americans and the Environment
Fall
Location: Camp Puh’tok

Essential Question:
How has the environment affected the American Indian culture?

This program includes a 45-minute opening after which students will rotate through 5 outdoor stations. Stations include face painting, games, weapons, friction fire, primitive tools, and dwellings with an explanation of how American Indians used natural resources for each of these.

The Camp Puh’tok program requires a minimum of 6 parents to attend a 3 hour training session prior to the field study. There is a $4.00/student facility use fee for Camp Puh’tok.

Grade 4 VSC /BCPS
Content Standard: Environmental Science
Topic: Environmental Issues
Indicator: The students will recognize and explain that people depend on, change, and are affected by the environment

This structure is used by a variety of Native American tribes.	Algonquian and Iroquois used longhouses for shelter
This shelter was used by many tribes including the Hopis	The chickee was the primary shelter of Seminoles

Totem poles were created by many Northwestern tribes

The Homestead Station.

Metal works depicting a Plains Indian Buffalo hunt.