Stage 1 - Desired Results Unit Title: American Indian Groups of Texas Established Goals

Design Topic: American Indian Groups of Texas Subject: Social Studies Grade: 4th Designer: Kara Styron
STAGE 1 – DESIRED RESULTS

Unit Title: American Indian Groups of Texas
Established Goals:
- Learners will plan and make their own virtual museum showcasing the American Indian
group of Texas of their choice.
- TEKS: 4.1A, 4.1B, 4.1C, 4.1D, 4.7A, 4.8A, 4.8B, 4.9A, and 4.12A
Understandings: Students will understand Essential Questions:

that… • What information would you see in a
• The regions of the American Indian museum about American Indians?
groups of Texas effected settlement • Why would a museum about American
• The different regions also effected the Indians be important?
different lifestyles of the tribes • How are their needs and wants
• There were various needs and wants of different from Texan’s needs and wants
each tribe today?
• The tribes governed themselves in • Why do Native American Reservations
similar and different ways still exist today? What importance do
they hold?
Students will know: Students will be able to:

- The American Indian groups of Texas • Identify the regions of Texas on a map
names: Caddo, Karankawa, Jumano, • Compare governing styles
Comanche, and Lipan Apache • Organize information on various tribes
- Various Texas regions: Gulf Coastal in a way that displays meaning
Plains, Central Plains, Great Plains,
Mountain and Basin
- American Indian Groups of Texas that
still exist today: Tigua Ysleta Del Sur
Pueblo, Alabama-Coushatta, Kickapoo
STAGE 2 – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

Performance Tasks: Other Evidence:
• Create virtual museum- students code their • Annotated Bibliography showcasing

own virtual museum showcasing their research of the topic
information about an American Indian • Reflection journal post about their
group of Texas, or comparing several research and coding journey
• Presentation- students will show their
classmates a tour of their museum
• Discussion- students will engage in
discussions that will present questions
stated above
Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005) 1
Design Topic: American Indian Groups of Texas Subject: Social Studies Grade: 4th Designer: Kara Styron
STAGE 3 – LEARNING PLAN

Summary of Learning Activities:
1. Class will go on a 360 virtual field trip to an American Indian Reserve (H)
2. Class will engage in a discussion of what type of information might you see at a
museum. What information is important about the American Indian groups of Texas to
tell others? (W)
3. Key vocabulary terms and maps will be displayed in class on anchor charts to keep
students on track. (E)
4. Students will pick a tribe to research and will copy and paste information and images in
a shared google doc with group members who chose same tribe. (E,O)
• Constraint: limited to pebblego, discovery, and other research apps on classlink
5. Students will begin to choose and organize information from googledoc they want to use
for their own virtual museum (E2,T, O)
6. Discussion: What additional information do we now think is important to include in a
museum exhibit about American Indian groups of Texas? Has it changed? (R)
7. Students will begin viewing examples of virtual museums on CoSpaces EDU. (E)
8. In their groups, students will begin designing and coding the exhibit structure. (E, T)
9. Once the design is how student wants, they will begin adding their images, videos,
information, and voice overs. Student will choose to do some or all of these things,
however they see fit for their exhibit. (T, O)
10. Student will choose a peer from their group to show exhibit to and receive feedback
from. (E2, R)
11. Students will make any final edits based on feedback received from peer and teacher.
(E2, R)
12. Students will rotate computers to view everyone’s virtual museum presentations (E)
13. Students will reflect and self-evaluate their experience and museum in a reflection
essay. (E2)
Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005) 2

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Design Topic: American Indian Groups of Texas Subject: Social Studies Grade: 4th Designer: Kara Styron

STAGE 1 – DESIRED RESULTS

Understandings: Students will understand Essential Questions:

Students will know: Students will be able to:

STAGE 2 – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

• Create virtual museum- students code their • Annotated Bibliography showcasing

STAGE 3 – LEARNING PLAN

Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005) 2

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