8th Grade U.S. History Creates Native American Action Figures

For their recent unit, 8th grade U.S. history students each created and displayed a Native American action figure that would have lived in one of the nine cultural regions of the present-day United States. After researching and learning about their assigned cultural regions, they were given a box and a peg doll to begin creating. Students then had to show their Native American action figure interacting with their surroundings to make their tools and weapons, find food, and build shelter. 

On September 20-21, as if in a museum, the action figures were put on display in the classroom, so that students could walk around to gather information from their classmates’ projects. They used the “exhibit” to fill in their class notes about the nine cultural regions of the pre-contact Native Americans. 

The students did an outstanding job showing off their ability to conduct research in creative ways!