STARLAB PLANETARIUM

Native American Mythology

Native American legends and folklore come to life through the constellations as students sit by the “campfire” and watch the night sky. The constellations stories are drawn from the Navajo, Shoshoni, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Tewa, Hopi, and Algonquin tribes.

English Language Arts

Communication: Oral and Visual

Benchmark A (Grade 8 –12) Use a variety of learning strategies to enhance listening comprehension.

Indicator 1. Apply active listening strategies (e.g., monitoring message for clarity, selecting and organizing essential information, noting cues such as changes in pace) in a variety of settings.

Benchmark B (Grade 8 – 10) Analyze the techniques used by speakers and media to influence an audience, and evaluate the effect this has on the credibility of a speaker or media message.

Grade 9 – 10 Indicator 3. Analyze the credibility of the speaker (e.g., hidden agendas, slanted or biased material) and recognize fallacies of reasoning used in presentations and media messages. Grade 11 – 12 Indicator 3. Critique the clarity, effectiveness and overall coherence of a speaker’s key points.

Social Studies

History

Benchmark C (Grade 9, 10) Analyze the reasons that countries gained control of territory through imperialism and the impact on people living in the territory that was controlled.

Grade 9 Indicator 5. Analyze the perspectives of the colonizers and the colonized concerning: a. Indigenous language; b. natural resources.

Geography

Benchmark A (Grade 9, 10) Analyze the cultural, physical, economic and political characteristics that define regions and describe reasons that regions change over time. Grade 10 Indicator 1. Explain how perceptions and characteristics of geographic regions in the United States have changed over time including: b. wilderness

Benchmark C (Grade 9, 10) Analyze the patterns and processes of movement of people, products and ideas.

Grade 9 Indicator 5. Analyze the social, political, economic and environmental factors that have contributed to human migration now and in the past.