5th Grade Curriculum

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  Supporting a healthy community by facilitating dialogue, maintaining continuity, and providing protection of Tribal lifeways.
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  One of nine federally recognized tribes in the State of Oregon. As a western Oregon Treaty Tribe, we are a sovereign tribal community known as a caring people, dedicated to the principles of honesty and integrity.
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  Since restoration in 1983, Tribal efforts have focused on rebuilding Tribal institutions, strengthening tribal culture, and developing service and educational programs designed to meet the needs of Tribal members.
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  This page highlights some of the larger projects currently under development by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. These projects will allow the Tribe to expand its ties throughout its homelands, extend services to its members and diversify the Tribe’s economic base.
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Welcome to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde 5th Grade Tribal History Curriculum

To begin, we would like to thank you for taking the time to learn and teach about the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. This curriculum began as a pilot project in the fall of 2013 that was brought about by the need in Oregon schools for historically accurate and culturally relevant curriculum about Oregon Native Americans and as a response to countless requests from Oregon teachers for classroom ready materials on Native Americans.

Since then, the original curriculum has been updated and reformatted to the lessons you see here. The process of creating the curriculum was a tribal wide effort. Several departments including the tribe’s education department, tribal library, natural resources, cultural resources department and many other tribal staff were involved. The curriculum comprises numerous topics that span social studies, math, science and language arts; and each lesson aligns with the Common Core State Standards. Each lesson is designed to stand alone and includes activities such as story writing, fiction and non-fiction reading, compare and contrast, presentations, mapping, investigation and much more. Lessons were created by keeping diverse student learning styles in mind.

Teachers can easily adapt lessons to fit the needs of their classrooms and student learning styles. We encourage teachers to preview each lesson and adjust it so that it fits the students they are serving, while keeping the content intact.

If there is a need or desire to modify any piece of the curriculum, please reach out to our Curriculum Specialist Cheyanne Heidt, cheyanne.heidt@grandronde.org, for assistance with this task.

Tribal History Curriculum

Curriculum Specialist - Cheyanne Heidt |Phone: 503-879-2144 |Email: Cheyanne.Heidt@grandronde.org

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