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Many times, learning comes easier when students can put a face on a topic. To help achieve these outcomes, the Bismarck Public Schools' Parent/Community Liaisons have compiled a list of community resources for you to use in your classroom. The community resource list is comprised of individuals who can visit classrooms for various topics. These are listed here. If you have any questions regarding these resources or if you would like to discuss a possible presenter, please contact the Community/Parent Liaisons:
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“Connecting Cultures and Classrooms: K-12 Curriculum Guide (Language Arts, Science, Social Studies)” (link)
Indian Education for All. K-12 Curriculum Guide for Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators (link)
American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators contents were made possible by the American Indian Civics Project (AICP),a project initially funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Native American Higher Education Initiative. The Project operated from 1997-98 through 2000-01. The primary goal of the AICP was to provide educators with the tools to educate secondary students - Indian and non-native alike - about the historical and contemporary political, economic, and social characteristics of sovereign tribal nations throughout the United States.
Bullying (link)
Bullying (link)
Bullying (link)
Bullying (link)
Bullying (link)
Cradleboard Teaching Project (link)
The Cradleboard Teaching Project was founded by Buffy Sainte-Marie in 1996. The site grew out of her experiences as a teacher who traveled widely, thanks to a concert career as a well-known Native American singer and songwriter. In October of 1996, Sainte-Marie received a grant to assist in the development of the site and since that time has modeled the Cradleboard Teaching Project in Mohawk, Cree, Ojibwe, Menominee, Coeur d´Alene, Navajo, Quinnault, Hawaiian, and Apache communities in eleven states, each of whom have partnered with a non-Indian class of the same grade level. The site has created accurate, enriching core curriculum units for Elementary, Middle, and High School grades in the disciplines of Geography, History, Social Studies, Music and Science. Their first interactive multimedia curriculum CD, "Science: Through Native American Eyes", is now available to participating teachers and users everywhere.
Digital Teacher Workshop (link)
The Digital Teacher Workshops are designed to provide professional development training for Teachers of American Indians and Alaska Natives in all grade levels and content areas.
Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum (link)
This is a page at the Education World site that highlights learning about Native Americans (in a general sense) across the curriculum. There are lots of good ideas and sample lesson plans for all ages and content areas at this site.
Indian Education K-12 Curriculum (Minnesota) (link)
The Minnesota Department of Education has an excellent site with a variety of lesson plans that are tailored for the Tribes in Minnesota. These can be modified for North Dakota. They present wonderful frameworks for classroom teachers to build their own knowledge and lesson plans.
Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (link)
How are American Indians represented in today's society? What are some cultural traditions and customs that have changed over the centuries? Which ones have continued into the present? This website provides lesson plans for addressing these questions and more about historical and contemporary Native Americans.
Native American Films & DVDs (link)
Native American Resources (link)
Search Term = Native Americans, for a large number of publications relative to Native Americans.
Native Voices (link)
Your Best source for books on Native history, culture, crafts, legends, spiritualism, women, wisdom, and contemporary issues.
We also feature children's books, and Native music and videos.
NatureShift! Linking Learning to Life (link)
NatureShift is an older site with a number of the links no longer active. However, once you enter, if you click on the hawk, you can get into a good selection of Native culture resources and information. The other links hit on other curriculum areas.
People Like Us (link)
This is a very interesting site on socio-economic class. This would be a good resource for middle and high school students. It is an interactive site that is fun and does help develop an awareness of class differences.
Teaching Tolerance: Learning Lakota (link)
This site offers an online magazine with a variety of stories related to equity issues. It also offers a link for subscribing for the free magazine, Teaching Tolerance, published by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is published twice a year and offers are good variety of teaching resources, including professional and children's books that can be used as teaching tools.
The Earliest Immigrants/Grades 6-8 (link)
Students will understand the following:
1. The traditional and modern theories about the origins of the first inhabitants of North America.
2. The lifestyles and survival strategies of Native Americans who lived long ago in the students' own geographical area.
3. The manner in which evolving modern theories of human migration are changing the way we look at history and cultivating awareness of racial and cultural stereotypes.
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