Know: The differences between needs and wants. The differences and purposes for a variety of tools (1400-1800). Understand: Function of tools today in relation to 500 years ago. Be Able to Do: Students will identify tools during Ancestral Puebloan Era (1400-1800): 1- identification of tools, 2- what the tools were used for, 3- what materials they were made out of, 4- what purposes they served. Students will create their own thriving tool.
Recommended level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
1. Needs, Wants, and the Purpose of Tools
2. Tools Then and Now: Continuity and Change