Make a three-way Venn diagram and compare and contrast possums, buzzards, and spiders

This is a Native American story. Many musical instruments were used by the ancient peoples - drums, flutes, rattles, ocarina. Have someone tell the story while different students play an instrument designated for the various animals in the story.

Pull the movement: Get into a circle. At first model a movement such as Spider walking to the top of the mountain. Have the students repeat that movement to the count of 4. Next, ask a student for a movement and have the class repeat it to the count of 4...then repeat the first one. Add new movements...repeating the previous ones. This can be quite a workout and a test of one's memory! Add musical instruments as you count to four.

Tell or read stories about the sun, moon, and stars (creation myths) form other cultures.

Bibliography

• How Grandmother Spider Brought Fire to the People: http://www.indians.org/welker/fire.htm
• Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun by Geri Keams at: http://www.amazon.com/Grandmother-Spider-Brings-Sun-Cherokee/dp/0873586948
• Cherokee Legends - with links to many stories: http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee-legends.htm
• The Cherokee Nation:   http://www.cherokee.org/