Rocky Point Students Create Longhouses And Wigwams

Press release from the Rocky Point Union Free School District:

Jan. 5, 2022

Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School students put a creative touch on a social studies lesson. Patricia Alberti’s fourth graders were eager to share their culminating activity in a Native American unit by fashioning wigwams and longhouses that are on display in the school hallway.

Students were tasked with gathering natural materials, including grass, pinecones, tree bark and more, just as Algonquian and Iroquois children did in the past, to make authentic Native American homes. The structures reflect the ways longhouses and wigwams were constructed. Many projects also contain scenery demonstrating the student’s knowledge of the ways Native Americans used natural resources to meet their needs.

“The students are so proud of their projects,” Ms. Alberti said, adding that they have gained a better understanding of the past with their work.

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