Lesson: Building a Native American (Leni-Lenape) Shelter

Source: Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

Created by: Sudha Gutti, Waldorf School

Subjects: History, Geography, Mathematics, Environmental Studies

Grade Levels: 3

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Overview: Teach students about Native American Culture through hands on activity of building traditional structures. Use the technique of building to incorporate math lesson related to measurement.

Objectives: Students will put lessons about measurements into practical use by using weight measures, linear measures and volume. Students will also practice conversions in measurement.

The Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit

This lesson is one of 29 lessons (K-12, all subjects) in the Philadelphia World Heritage Tool Kit. The goal of the Tool Kit is to help educators and their students develop a transnational analysis in their classrooms by using complex themes of world heritage as a framework to understand global regions across disciplines. These themes include shared architectural, cultural, economic, environmental, political, recreational, religious, and social heritage features.  Real teachers created these lessons and based their work on “best practices” that reflect student collaboration and the broad goals of young people in ways that support care and understanding of others who may be very different in background and history.