Pistes d'exploration

Examine the front and back covers, and scan a few pages of the book. What inventions will you be learning about?

Notice how the author uses illustrations to help the reader understand the text. Read the book with a partner, focusing only on the pictures. Take turns explaining the information to each other.

In a group, select one area of innovation (shelter, food, transportation, etc.). Create a multimedia presentation that explains the evolution, importance and relevance of some of the inventions.

List the top five inventions you learned about. Debate and vote on the most useful invention, explaining your choice.

Brainstorm popular inventions.

Do you know of anything we use today that was created by Native Americans?

List the top five inventions you learned about. Debate and vote on the most useful invention, explaining your choice.

Create a multimedia presentation about one of the inventions. Include information on its evolution through time and its current use around the world.

Brainstorm popular inventions. Do you know of anything we use today that was created by Native Americans?

List the top five inventions you learned about. Debate and vote on the most useful invention, explaining your choice.

Create a multimedia presentation about one of the inventions. Include information on its evolution over time and its current use around the world.

100 Inventions That Made History: Brilliant Breakthroughs That Shaped Our World, The Caribou Feed Our Soul

Mots-clés

Non-fiction , creativity , cultures , history , illustrations (photographs) , Indigenous peoples , inventions , science

Commentaire descriptif

A variety of Native cultures of North America are highlighted through 13 fully illustrated chapters on environmentally appropriate housing (wickiups, earth houses and chickees), food acquisition (decoys, snares and weirs), medicine, transportation, sports, communication and more. A fun topographical map locates the traditional territories of dozens of cultures, while hinting at the environment and resources that helped shape them. An abundance of photographs—black and white and coloured, contemporary and historic—illustrate brief text blocks and captions, making this a fine book for browsing or researching particular topics. An index also aids research purposes. Plain language describes innovations readers may recognize (“In places where birch and maple trees grew, people harvested the sap”), or not (“Wearing a cape made from strips of cedar bark, this Kwakwaka’wakw woman prepares bark to make clothing.”) A final chapter, “Native Americans Today,” focuses on the continued importance of these cultures in North American Society.