Crayola
Crayola: Hides That Reveal (Lesson Plan)
A fun lesson plan for a class studying Native American culture. Students create their own tepees, or animal hides with designs and symbols representing their own personality. Also contains adaptations and resources. (To access this...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Common Visions, Common Voices
This lesson plan gives students a chance to explore the art and literature of Indians, Africans, Mayans, and Native Americans. Provides plenty of links to photo examples, and lesson extension ideas.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Early Visual Representations of the New World
A lesson plan that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...
Arizona State University
A.r.t.s : Navajo Pottery: Beautiful Objects
This informative website contains pages discussing the history of Navajo pottery. Provides photos and explanations of various pottery techniques. Teachers can use these lessons to show learners how to create and fire their own pottery!
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Norval Morrisseau (Lesson Plan)
A wonderful educational art site from KinderArt that includes creating a work of art in a style similar to that of Morrisseau. Includes a short biography, art vocabulary, and information on Ojibwa culture.
California State University
Lesson Plan: Pictograph Stone Carving
This lesson plan provides a fun art lesson about stone carving.
Other
Dick Blick Art Materials: Multicultural Lesson Plans
Twelve teacher-tested lesson plans to integrate art from around the world into your classroom. Each activity comes with a list of materials you'll need, easy-to-follow explanations, and examples.
California State University
Navaho Rug
A simple, but dynamic introductory weaving instructional activity that focuses on the art of the Navaho Native Americans. The instructional activity is well thought-out and includes references to children's literature to read as an...
California State University
Csu: Arts Education K 6 Music Lessons
Several wonderful lesson plans for teachers seeking to incorporate music into the curriculum.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Influence of Mesoamerica on Mexican Art
A unit on Mexican art, Frida Kahlo, Native Civilizations in Mesoamerica, and Mayan culture. The site includes lesson plans, bibliographies, and much more.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Mosaic America: Civil Rights Movement
A lesson unit designed to outline the civil rights movement as seen through the eyes of African Americans, Chicanos, and Native Americans.
California State University
Basket Making
This fibers project goes cross-curricular to focus on Native American coil baskets. Techniques could be challenging. However, when completed, your students will feel so rewarded with a beautiful handmade craft.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Learners interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Understanding the Ancient Americas
A collection of lesson plans with background information on ancient civilizations in the Americas. Includes topics such as Aztec and Mayan mythology, Hispanic influence, religious practices, artwork, and artifacts. The materials were...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...