Children's Books of Native Peoples Around the World (Early Elementary)
Analyze children’s book covers for messages about human relationships with the natural world and about the purpose and design of book covers.
Grade Levels
Lower Elementary School
Objectives
Students will compare how authors tell stories of relationships between people and their environment.
Students will consider the purpose and design of book covers.
Students will reflect on people’s places in the natural web of life.
Media Included
Guiding Questions
[Objective] Students will compare how authors tell stories of relationships between people and their environment.
What does this say about people and the world they live in?
What do they want me to think about?
What do I notice about the drawing?
What do I notice about the title?
[Objective] Students will consider the purpose and design of book covers.
Who is this for? How can you tell?
Why do they make book covers?
Which of these books would you pick and why? (Culminating Question)
[Objective] Students will reflect on people’s places in the natural web of life.
What do they think is important?
How are the books the same? How are they different? (Culminating Question)
What are the messages in these covers about the relationship of people to the natural world? (Culminating Question)
What questions do you have about Native peoples around the world? (Culminating Question)
Follow up Evidence Questions & Comments
Where do you see that?
Say more about that
How do you know that?
What makes you say that?
Does anyone have a different idea?
*This lesson was created in collaboration with Project Look Sharp.