Answers
for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 1 - 9.)
| Migration Route From Asia - ...were lower,
Asia... |
| Aztec - ...the sun, which... |
| Inca - ...with roads that stretched... |
| Maya - ...Peninsula in Central
America... |
| Pueblo - ...bricks called adobe... |
| Cahokia - ...topped by religious temples. |
| Creek - ...game now called lacrosse. |
| Iroquois - ...is now upper New York. |
| Inuit - ...known as Eskimos... |
The
Picture:
This very early drawing shows Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic coastal
area cooking fish. Cooking over a smoking fire helped preserve the
fish so they could be kept for months without going bad. |
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Tips
for completing the map:
Students should work from the finished map shown on the
Internet support site or from our overhead transparency map collection.
Emphasize neatness from the beginning!
Start by having students draw, very lightly, the red arrows
that show the migration route of the ancestors of today's Native Americans.
Once they have the line located correctly, they can darken it.
Mention, as they work, that scientists are still not sure
of the exact route. It is possible the path may have actually been
along the shoreline of the "land bridge" that once connected the continents
when sea levels were lower.
Students should label the map with a #2 pencil, since
regular color pencils are not good for small lettering. If they will
work very carefully, red ink pens are good, but of course, mistakes cannot
be erased.
As they locate the selected Indian groups, be sure to
mention that this is only a selection of the largest and most famous of
the Indian groups. There were hundreds of others.
Finally, have students draw the path of Columbus in 1492.
Notice that he left Spain, sailed to the Canary Islands, then headed westward.
(The Canary Islands, incidentally, are not named for canaries, but for
wild dogs living there (Latin: canines.)
Experts disagree about which island was the first landing
by Columbus in the New World.
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