Art and Social Studies

Within this class period we learned about what totem poles are and how they originated. We also learned what different animals and colors represent. My colors represented power, war, and endless skies. My animal, as you can see below, is an eagle.

Extension: Students will create more animals that could be on totem poles with descriptions of what they symbolize. They can also add to the list what different colors can mean as well. Then they will make more totems and add them to their previous totems to actually make a totem pole. Once their totem pole is finished they will write about what everything represents and how it relates to them.