Activities:
Teepees - Discuss why teepees were necessary for the lifestyle
of the Plains Indians. Watch this video
about building a teepee. Build a small teepee using sticks and fabric.
Use paints to decorate the teepee as shown in the illustrations of the
book.
Buffalo - Discuss how the Indians used every part of the buffalo.
Read and complete the buffalo worksheet from SchoolHistory.co.uk's
Native American Page.
Horses - Read "How
the Discovery of the Horse Changed the Life of the Plains Indians".
Use the Native
American with Horse Notebooking Page to write about how the horse
changed the Plains Indians lives.
Weather - Do some weather
related worksheets from EnchantedLearning.
Related Activities:
Horse Lapbook
Make a Dream
Catcher
Notebooking Pages:
Buffalo
Buffalo 2
TeePee
Coloring Sheets:
Native
American Man
Native
American Woman
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