"How Wood Tick Became Flat" is a tale from the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation. This tale helps students become familiar with cultural storytelling and its importance in Native cultures. Students will have a brief introduction to the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and thier location in Utah. This lesson include an experience eliciting discussion and literacy activities. Students will create a diamante poem using a Native American tale. 

This is a lesson introducing students to storyboards and beginning to think about how to create a story to film in a future lesson. Students will work backward to write a storyboard for a short film, will brainstorm and outline their story they want to share, and will then flesh it out as a storyboard and will think about the shot the want, the audio they want to add and they will revise their lessons based on feedbakc from teachers and peers.

Students will go through the writing process to create a video that shows a multistep word problem.

Lesson Description: Students will learn about facts/opinions and claims/reasoning. Students will complete two nearpods and a prewriting assignment. Students will read a sample essay and will collaborate to think critically about facts and opinions. Students will also complete a 5-7 sentence opinion writing piece on a topic of their choice.Thumbnail citation: "A-kid-drawing-or-writing" by dotmatchbox at flickr is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.