When incorporating The Lower Flathead River - A Cultural, Historical, and Scientific Resource (Rockwell/Swaney) into my kindergarten curriculum I will be using common core science standards.
My students will concentrate on observing nature. This will introduce them to the use of observation of nature by Native Indians as the tribes' key inquiry process. This text also identifies tools utilized by tribes and the plants and animals used to create them which will allow the students to explore this area of the Native culture. Measurement tools will help students to make life size animal tracks. Exploration of an ecosystem and the life cycle of plants will be included. An investigation on how mountains are created and a final project of producing landscape models will excite the students. This text also lends itself to helping the students define environmental problems.
The Lower Flathead is so full of information the ideas keep coming! I am excited to begin these projects-
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