Nevada Native Food Lesson

(Cooperative Lesson)

Activity Goals:

• To identify, locate and describe one Band from each of the four Native Tribes of Nevada.
• To compute how much of that particular food source was needed to feed a small family of four through the winter.
• To understand that the four Native Tribes of Nevada lived in small roving groups known as bands, identified by either their food source or living environment.
• To understand that bands did not solely depend on that food source or immediate living environment but roamed beyond their immediate locale for other food sources.

Materials:

• Four (4) Student Information Workbooks
• Native Nevadan Food Math Facts Worksheet
• Comparison chart
• Individual Tribal Maps

Procedures:

1. Explain to the students activity goals 1 and 2.
2. Divide the students into their same tribal groups.
3. Name and show the major band groups using maps of each individual tribe.
4. Have the students decide which band of their tribe they would like to be for these activities.
5. Write the topic questions on the board/chart
   1. Where was your band located (N, W, E, or S)?
   2. How many people were in your band (estimate)?
   3. Where they hunters, fisherman, gatherers, or farmers?
   4. What type of food source did you survive on or place you were named after (ex..fish, tule, seed-eaters or people who lived _____)?
   5. How much of your food source would it take to survive through the winter months for a family of four?
6. Students meet in their cooperative groups.
7. Record the information on a comparison chart as each group speaker presents their information .
8. Compare and discuss the charted information.