Native Tribes of Nevada
Family Life

Activity Goals:

• Students will understand that the four Nevada Native tribes engaged in daily activities that were influenced by family members, plants and animals, geographic locations and seasons.
• Students will identify and compare daily activities of each Nevada Native tribal group.

Materials:

• Student Information Workbooks
• Native Tribes of Nevada Information Chart
• Nevada Map

Procedures:

1. Explain to the Students the Activity Goal 1.
2. Divide the students into their same tribal bands.
3. Identify which season of the year each group is to
   use when deciding their activity.
4. Instruct students to describe an activity their
   band was engaged in on this particular day of the year.
5. Have students pick one of the following options to
   report on their activity:
   1. Make a story map of activity.
   2. Writing and orally reporting on activity.
   3. Dramatizing the activity (Role-playing).
   4. Drawing the activity.
6. Students will meet in their cooperative groups, plot out their activity and speaker will present information for their group.
7. Record the information on the information chart as
   each group speaker presents their information.
8. Compare and discuss the charted information.

Additional Activities:

1. Students can compare activities from different seasons.
2. Students can compare past and present seasonal activities.