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Look at these symbols to see what you might add to your homes when you complete the STEM challenge.

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I have been teaching my kids Native American Sign language and symbols for years now, and I have never come across so many pics, in such a wide variety, in one place, before. Thank you for all of the leg work and research and for sharing.

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Here is a short description on each of the homes. It includes a picture of each.

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Here is a passage from Readworks. It talks about the traditional Native American homes.

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This website has links to all the homes that we will be building in our STEM challenge.

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Homes - Native Americans in Olden Times for Kids

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Today, Native Americans live in houses just like yours and mine. But in olden times, they lived in very different homes. Everything was made by hand. Everything was made with things they found in nature. It took hard work to make a home. Come learn about the creative homes people built in olden times.

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Talks about Igloos and how they are built!

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The Three Little Pigs built houses of , sticks, and bricks. But that's probably because they didn't live in an environment . If they had, they probably would've built a house out of and ice. We wonder how an would stand up to the Big Bad Wolf...

People in different parts of the world build different types of houses, because people tend to use materials that are in their area. For example, wood and stone are in some areas of the world, so wood and stone houses are popular in those areas.

In areas with extreme weather, however, building materials may be or nonexistent . In Alaska and the areas of the Canadian , for example, good building materials can be hard to find. Instead, the native people who live in these areas - called the or Eskimos - use something that is in their area: .

The call their homes iglu, which is where the term "" for " house" comes from. First built by hunters to survive in extreme cold weather conditions, igloos have been around for thousands of years.

Your mental image of an may have come from cartoons on television, but it's probably fairly accurate. Many igloos are simple dome-shaped structures made entirely of blocks of and ice.

Igloos can come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, though. There's no one way to build an and the number of blocks used to build one will vary with the size of the and the builder's design.

Some igloos are designed to house one person while hunting in the wild, while others may house a small village of people through interconnected igloos with ceremonial rooms and attached corridors and walls.

Some of you may think it's a bit strange for people living in extreme cold to build a shelter out of and ice. After all, and ice are extremely cold themselves, right? Believe it or not, though, igloos can be very comfortable to live in.

An 's walls the icy wind that's common in these areas. also happens to be a very good . This means that the heat inside the - whether from a small oil lamp or just body heat - tends to stay inside the . The result is that the inside of an can be as much as 40 degrees (Farenheit) warmer than the outside temperature.

Igloos also get stronger and warmer over several days after they're first built. As trapped heat causes the inside of an to melt slightly, the melted will then refreeze when the is unoccupied. A few days of this thawing/refreezing cycle will eventually turn the entire structure to solid ice, which is even stronger and warmer than the original structure.

also happens to be an easy to work with when building an . The winds pack it together tightly, which makes it very sturdy. Yet it's also lightweight and easy to cut into blocks to build an .

An experienced builder can construct an in about an hour. If you've never built an before, it'll probably take you three to six hours or more. All you need, though, is plenty of packed , a few tools and patience.

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The Three Little Pigs built houses of , sticks, and bricks. But that's probably because they didn't live in an environment . If they had, they probably would've built a house out of and ice. We wonder how an would stand up to the Big Bad Wolf...

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This includes information about wigwams and even compares it to a teepee.

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Have you ever WONDERed what life was like for Native Americans long, long ago? When you've studied Native Americans in school, you've probably seen pictures of some of the structures they used as houses. In fact, you're probably quite familiar with the . But did you also know that some Native Americans made structures called wigwams?

Wigwams are round, huts that were used by many different Native American cultures. Tribes in the Northeastern United States usually called these structures wigwams, while tribes in the Southwestern United States often called them wickiups. The Wampanoag tribe used the word wetu for these structures.

The surfaces of the made them an ideal shelter in many different types of climates and even the worst of weather conditions. To build a , Native Americans normally started with a frame of arched poles that were usually made of wood.

Male tribe members were responsible for creating the frame. They would need to find many young tree saplings that were between 10-15 feet long. A large (10-15 feet in ) would be drawn on the ground, and the saplings would be spaced an equal distance apart. bent toward the middle and tied together to form the arched frame.

The female members of the tribe would then cover the frame with roofing material that varied by region. Different materials were available in different locations, so some wigwams might be made of birchbark while others were made of grass, , rushes, mats, reeds, animal hides, or even cloth. The finished made a small home that was 8-10 feet tall.

The term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term . However, wigwams and teepees (sometimes spelled tipis) were very different structures with different uses and different methods of construction.

Teepees were dwellings used by tribes and hunting parties of the Great Plains Native Americans. Unlike wigwams, teepees were not meant to be used for extended periods of time. Instead, they were easy and simple to construct, since they were intended to be portable.

Teepees were usually made with a few wooden poles and animal skins as coverings. Wigwams often took days to build, whereas teepees could often be disassembled and reassembled elsewhere in a matter of a few hours.

Teepees also differed from wigwams in their use of smoke flaps and an opening at the top. These features allowed users to cook inside and control the amount of smoke. It also helped to keep users warmer, since teepees featured less cover and insulation compared to the more- .

Wigwams would usually be used for months at a time. For example, a Native American tribe might build wigwams to be used throughout the entire course of the farming season. When winter would come, they would move to a hunting . Their wigwams were not portable, so they simply left them. If they survived the winter, they might reuse them. If not, they would simply build new wigwams the following season.

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Have you ever WONDERed what life was like for Native Americans long, long ago? When you've studied Native Americans in school, you've probably seen pictures of some of the structures they used as houses. In fact, you're probably quite familiar with the .