Site Name:National Geographic: Native Americans

Site Address: http://nationalgeographic.org/topics/native-americans/

Site Score:21/24

Criteria

Scor
e

Influence on
-Curiosity
-Initiative
-Desire

Resource has no
beneficial influence
on any of the three
measures of
experience

Resource has
beneficial influence
on at least one of
the measures of
experience

Resource has a
beneficial influence on
all three of the
measures of
experience

Cognitive
Development
-Cognition
-New
Knowledge

Resource weakly
improves cognition
and/or introduces no
new knowledge

Resource improves
learner cognition on
subject without
introducing new
knowledge

Resource improves
learner cognition on
the subject and
introduces new
knowledge

Level of
Material
-Grade
Appropriate for
Target

Resource is not
grade appropriate for
the target audience,
and could not be
used for IEFA lesson
using standards for
the grade level

Resource has no
specific indicators of
a target audience,
and could work for a
general audience
given the right
circumstances

Resource is well
suited for its target
audience and their
level of experience
and could easily be
incorporated for an
IEFA lesson for the
standards given the
target audience

Progressive
Education Tool
-Student
Freedom
-Tailored to
Individual
-Variety of
Teaching
Methods

Resource offers
limited student
freedom to explore,
the material is nonadaptive to student
needs and input, and
uses only one
teaching technique

Students have
freedom to explore
content at their own
pace; however, the
content is nonadaptive and uses
only one teaching
technique

Students have
freedom to explore at
their own pace, using
technology that adapts
to their needs and
input, and the
technology may utilize
multiple teaching
techniques

Multicultural:
Realistic
Representation

Resource fails to
provide any realistic
or non-stereotypical
representation of
American Indian

Resource attempts
to present a genuine
representation of an
American Indian
topic; however the

Resource covers a
realistic representation
of an American Indian
topic in depth,
providing an accurate

topics

depiction is
incomplete or
oversimplified

depiction of another
culture and their
perspectives

Multicultural:
Relevance

Resource fails to
provide any relevant
examples to a
culture or the subject
area

Resource provides
relevant examples
for either the culture
or the subject area,
but not both

Resource provides
relevant examples for
both the culture and
the subject area

Resource
Viability

Resource cannot
support a complete
lesson plan on its
own, and would
require additional
objectives and
activities

Resource can
support an entire
lesson plan by itself
without any
additional activities

Resource could
support multiple
lesson plans or a unit
plan

Technology

Resource is one
page of written
words with no
interaction

Resource has links

that take the user to
additional passive
reading pages

Resource provides
interactive technology,
allowing for active
student participation

Additional Comments: This resource differs from many of the others reviewed in that it hosts
several different lessons on various topics rather than one topic. The lessons identify
appropriate grade levels and ages and gives a summary of each unit. Most of the resources are
reading based, although a few include interactive lessons. These lessons could be useful for a
variety of lessons, however, for the most part, these resources would be supplemental to an
overall lesson.