Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Make a "NEW" tool for a N.A. community in a particular region.

Objective: Students will create a unique tool that reflects the environment of a specific region in Native American communities.

Activity: Students will choose one of the following Native American regions studied: Woodlands, Southwest, Arctic and Plains. In dyads, students will decide what resources are available in the environment and what type of tool could be made from those resources. Students will also decide what tool would be necessary to live in that environment, design a model for that tool and create it with real materials. Teams must be prepared to defend in writing the name of the tool and it's proper use.

Assessment: Students will create a tool that accurately reflects the particular resources and needs of a Native American community in a specific region. The students will write an appropriate description of the tool including it's name and use.