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Abstract
Activity is a visit to a native plant culture in the wetland
ecosystem of Rose Bay. Visit the Native Americans and the plants
that were there before the Europeans transported other plants into
the area that surrounds Rose Bay area. Then learn the facts of the
plants of the 1700"s and the environment they lived in. This
activity will take you through the environment of the native plants
of the area that the Native American or Timucuans subsisted on.
Talking about the differences that go with the plant culture when
other animals and plants are transported in.
The objective of
this activity is to give students insight into the Native plant
culture from the realistic viewpoint of the Timucuans and Europeans.
Students will learn how Timucuans lived and worked with the nature.
As an integral part of a thematic unit.
Lesson fundamental understandings:
Essential
Questions:
Standards
National Standards Science US History
World History
State Standards
Lesson
Prerequisite Skills
Students will need to know the following vocabulary: Timucuans,
culture, Kunti, Koontie, Coontie, berries, nuts, fruit, sea grasses,
cacti, palmetto tree willow tree, Yaupon Holly, Cabbage Palm, Poison
Ivy, Spanish moss, beauty Berry, Wax Myrtle, slash pine, laurel oak,
southern magnolia, Ink berry, galberry, dandelion, gun plant, jelap,
jinson weed, mandrake, prickly ash yellow root, dogwood, elder,
cat-tail, red cedar, white oak, moon wart, white oak, red alder,
ginseng, spignet.
Teacher
Information/Situations/Setting/Time
Assessment
Assessement can be done through tests and quizzes, notebook,
portfolio's, games and demostrations.
Student Activity/Tasks The students
objective is to be able to describe what plants where here before
the Europeans can and what plants have been brought into this
country by other sources after the 1400's by the Europeans and other
visitors.
Focus is the Native Americans used many of these
plants for medicine healing and eating.
1. Play the name game
which matches leaf, picture and name card together,
2. Do
crossword puzzles with the name of the plants you are viewing.
3.
Learn the stories behind these plants and what they are used
for.
Enrichment/Alternate Activity:
Cross-Curricular:
Technology
Requirements/Tools/Materials
Computer and internet access
Encyclopedia online or offline or
in media center
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