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Indigenous Innovations, Governance, and Lasting Impact

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

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Identify and evaluate the enduring ideas, agricultural systems, medical knowledge, technologies, and governance structures created by Native Americans.

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  7. Indigenous Art: Textiles, Pottery, and Wampum BeltsNot started yet
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us-ut5.1.2Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Identify ideas, innovations, and contributions of Native Americans that have had a lasting impact on human civilization (for example, agriculture, respect for the earth and environment, inventions, fashion, art, government, language, medicines, ritual and ceremony).

us-ut5.3.1Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Use examples from the Constitution to investigate and explain the development, general purpose, and significant foundational principles of the United States government (a compound constitutional republic), as well as earlier documents and philosophies used to help develop the Constitution (for example, the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Articles of Confederation, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy).