Nicole Evans

Check for
Understanding:
Anticipatory Set:
I will ask the students where they get their food
from. They will say the grocery store. I will go
into a quick discuss about how a
hunter/gatherer Indian tribe gets their food.

Objective:
The students will synthesize the lifestyle of
hunter/gatherer tribes; a nomadic tribe versus a
sedentary tribe to develop a tribe of their own.

Input/Modeling:

We will discuss the basic characteristics of a

hunter/gatherer tribe.
We will also discuss the characteristics of the
Sioux Indians and the Chinook Indians.

Guided Practice:

I will have a Venn diagram labeled with Sioux

tribe and Chinook tribe. As a class, we will
compare and contrast the tribes and decide
what tribe will be labeled a nomadic tribe and
which one is a sedentary tribe.

Independent Practice:

(The students from Rylee Wilson's group will

combine with my group)

We will have two different colored feathers

in a bowl (yellow and red) and we will
have each student come up and pick a
feather.
They will then form a group based on their
feather color. (Rylee and I will have
already made Indian headdresses with
those color feather in them)
Each group will be given a type of
hunter/gatherer lifestyle; nomadic or
sedentary.
The students will then need to work as a
group to decide a name for their tribe and

After we totally filled

out the T-chart, I will
turn the chart over and
have the students
write on sticky-notes
some characteristics of
Sioux and the Chinook
Indian tribes.

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how their tribe will run; job roles,

leadership roles, etc.
The students will write down their final
decisions and write a small description of
the lifestyle of their tribe.

Closure:

Student will come up and present their tribe to

the other students and explain their lifestyle.

Materials:

Feathers (yellow and red)

Bowl
Headdresses (made from construction
paper)
White posterboard

Black permanent marker

Piece of regular paper and pencils (for
students)
Pictures of different lifestyle
characteristics (boats, animals, etc)

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Hunter/Gatherer lifestyle:

Hunted animals, gathered plants for food

Moved to a new location when food ran out
Depended on natural environment for shelter
o Lived in caves and shelters made of rocks, branches, animal
skins
Lived in small bands of about 30 people
o Group included several families
o Group size reflected how many people could live off food in
region
Men hunted, fished
Woman gathered nuts, berries; cared for children
o Children also worked
Also called nomads people who moved from place to place
Groups returned to the same places with the changes of the seasons
o Bands joined together at certain times of the year, formed
communities
Moved to a new, distant lands while following animals to hunt
o Migration moving from one place to settle in another

Chinook Indians
Not nomadic people
Build coastal villages of rectangular cedar-plank houses with bark
roofs.
o Usually houses were large (up to 70 feet long) and each one
housed an entire extended family
Fishing people made large dugout canoes by hollowing out cedar or
fir logs
o Used the canoes to travel up and down the sea coast for trading,
fishing and hunting, and warfare.
The staple food was salmon
o Men also caught many other kinds of fish and sea mammals from
their canoes and hunted deer, bird, and small game on land.
Chinook women gathered clams, shellfish, seaweed, berries, and roots
Both genders took part in trade, storytelling, artwork and music, and
traditional medicine
The chinook chief was always a man, but clan leaders could be either
men or women.