Nevada Native Plants and Animals

Students explore the ancient civilization of Mali and examine various historical and cultural aspects of the civilization. In this ancient civilization of Mali instructional activity, students examine trade with respect to geographic...

Students discover the inequality of food distribution.  In the hunger instructional activity, students discuss how some places and people do not get the food they need to survive. Students role play distributing pretend meals to...

Students explore the concept of culture. They discuss the Washoe culture, create a word web, develop a family tree of their own family for a class book, and complete a writing assignment.

Students study the characteristic of self-sufficiency in people that lived during Colonial times. They investigate the contemporary movement of Habitat for Humanity. They listen to the story of Donald Hall's, The Oxcart Man and write a...

Students study the lives of the Abenaki before contact with Europeans and how their lives changed after contact with the Europeans.

Students role-play real-life survivors in a panel discussion. They read a mini-biography about a survivor.