Brother+Eagle,+Sister+Sky+Reinforcing+Activity

__**Objective:**__ Students will be able to compare and contrast the physical land and perceptions of the land and environment from the past and today.

__**Materials:**__
 * Book, //Brother Eagle, Sister Sky//
 * Pictures of land now and in the past
 * Computers for research

__**Procedures:**__ 1.Have students do a quick write about how they view the environment.

2. Read the book //Brother Eagle, Sister Sky//

//3.// How does Chief Seattle and his tribe view and treat the environment compared to how society values the environment today? For example, Chief Seattle talked about how the people belonged to the land, while we view the land as belonging to the people.

4. Compare and contrast pictures of various places at different times. This website has good now and then website: http://thechive.com/2011/02/14/the-times-they-are-a-changin-25-photos/. Ask students: how has the environment been affected? why? what actions have people done to change the environment.

5. Have students then compare and contrast to where they live from today to the past. Students will have to look back on the area's history to see how this area has changed. Students will need to collect before/after images and details explaining what the place is and how it has changed. Students will need to focus on how people modified the environment and what the consequences of the modification was.

__**Other Ohio Standards:**__ Grade 4: History Strand, Heritage 3. Various groups of people have lived in Ohio over time including prehistoric and historic American Indians, migrating settlers and immigrants. Interactions among these groups have resulted in both cooperation and conflict.