The Lakota Tribe

    This week we did another group project! The whole week was focused on learning about geography, so we were assigned tribes to study in groups and find out all of the general information, such as: where they live, what they eat, special traditions, what their houses were made of, and other similar information. Then at the end we had to make generalizations about our tribe and say how geography influenced them in particular. My tribe was a nomadic tribe, so geography heavily influenced them since it was the cause of why they kept moving. They typically followed the buffalo because it was a huge source for food, shelter, and clothing. This project was fun; I got to learn a lot about the Lakota tribes, but I also learned about the ones that my classmates did. For my group's project, we created a thinglink to present to everyone else; here is the link to our thinglink. Thinglink is a great tool that I've used for multiple projects since I've learned about it in this course. Here's a picture of our thinglink too:

I highly suggest looking at this thinglink because I think it came out really well; it contains a lot of interesting information and even some videos! Before we created the thinglink, we made a powerpoint, so if you feel more comfortable looking at that, then here is the link to our powerpoint. 

My group worked really well together and I felt comfortable presenting the information to my classmates. I think this was an interesting project to have us do and it would be very easy to do in any grade because students do research projects in every grade and having them make the generalizations about geography at the end is a great way to make sure they really interpreted everything they learned about their tribe.