Authors: Peyton Detling & Kaylee Adkins  Consultant/Editor: Dr. Mary Beth Henning (henninma@mountunion.edu)

Grade Level: 4^th/5th grade

Subject: Native American cultural uses of buffalo

Context for Teaching/Learning

• This lesson was taught to 29 fourth grade students at Alliance Intermediate School in Alliance, Ohio in the classroom of veteran teacher, Kelly Lemmon. The class included 12 girls and 14 boys. Over 50% of the students are African American or multi-racial. Over 50% of the students have IEPs or 504 plans. All children in the school receive free and reduced lunch due to the poverty rate in the city. Most IEPs in this class focus on reading and writing skills (reading levels range from kindergarten – 4^th grade level) and there is one English learner.
• Students will use a chart (a word bank can be added at the top to differentiate for students’ needs) to organize their understanding of how different resources are used in different cultures. This lesson reinforces the concepts of culture and tribe.
• Students will make “guesses” or hypotheses about the different buffalo artifacts and then complete the chart after learning more about the artifacts from ahtove.org.