Stacy T - Assign #4c

Two important things that i learned from the Indian education for all lesson are 1) that many of the tribes' names were based off of misnomers. In the past the Indians used hand signals to communicate. When doing so, others may have confused their signs for something else. Therefore they would have a name different than what they call themselves. 2) When the boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania was open, it was considered to be a privilege to be admitted into the school. At the time, it was considered to be like our now a days ivy league schools. At these schools they were taught to be more white, which would then allow them to have more jobs in the future.

I am an elementary education major and an art education minor. There are many different ways to go about incorporating IEFA into my classroom. In the art room, we could learn about the art that is created by native Americans. Everything they do is an art. Their clothes, their jewelry, everything that they make has some kind of bead work or painting on it. A great way to teach this lesson is to go to a museum and look at all the works that they have done. Another way to do this in an elementary school classroom is for the students to either work individually or pair up and research different tribes in different areas. They then could write a paper and build a model of what their houses look like. They could use grass, clay, stones or whatever else they may need to create the type of house being built. This would allow the children to actually see the differences in housing in different climates rather than always reading, hearing, or looking at pictures of the houses. This project is also one that uses many different learning techniques for those that learn differently.