In this lesson, we were taught the role that totem poles play in the Native American Culture. We were given multiple pages of picture of animals that are often used on totem poles. We were given small pieces of paper to practice drawing the animal we wanted to create. They had us incorporate the same colors that we may want to use in the final product. I decided to make a moose and I made him blue because blue is my favorite color. Something that we had to include in our totem pole was a 3D aspect. Although you can't tell much in the picture, I have pieces of paper folded accordion style to make his antlers stick out. Once finished, each table backed their animal with the same color paper so that they could be assembled together to make a totem pole. We then each filled out a note card that stated the animal we made, why we chose the colors we did, and what the animal stands for.
As an extension activity, I think it would be cool to have the students come up with their own legends for their favorite animal or an animal that interests them. They could first hear about Native American legends and why certain animals mean what they do.
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