Educators
The attached education packet includes a narrative and exercises about the Trail of Tears in Georgia. The narrative and exercises are designed for 4th to 6th graders. Students individual skill levels should be taken into account when using these lessons. The exercises focus on the story of the Trail of Tears, mapping skills, human interaction with the environment, ecology, reading comprehension, written communication, and vocabulary. The specific exercises with their associated objectives are listed below.
Student Narrative, Georgia’s Story of Cherokee Removal
Objective: To increase reading comprehension and to learn about Cherokee lifeways and the history of the Trail of Tears.
Living with Nature
Objective: To increase reading comprehension, use written communication, identify impact of the physical environment on lifestyles of the Cherokee, draw conclusions based on information available.
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Vocabulary
Answer KeyCrossword
Objective: To increase vocabulary development
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Wordsearch
Objective: vocabulary development
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Map 1 Exercise
Objective: To review map reading skills, follow written directions, and identify basic elements of US geography.
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Map 2 Exercise
Objective: To review mapping skills, follow written directions, become familiar with a historic map and compare it to a modern map, use reference skills, and draw conclusions from resources available.
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Map 3 Exercise
Objective: To identify physiographic regions within Georgia, identify natural resources that make up these regions, compare and contrast regions in Georgia with Oklahoma, and draw conclusions about human interaction with environment in various regions.
Map 3 Reading
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Trees of the Cherokee
Objective: To use attention to detail in an introduction to taxonomy of natural resources.
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