WOW Game Title: Settle the Reservation
Content Area: Social Studies
TEKS Focus: Native Americans and Texas Regions
Motivations for Exploration
Physical Education Unit: Cooperative Games
Grade: 4
Resource: Tammy Arredondo
http://www.native-languages.org/hair.htm Hair Picture
http://www.native-languages.org/texas.htm map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears trail of tears
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston Sam Houston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo Geronimo
Equipment/Materials: 24 hula-hoops, cards of characteristics of Native American
tribes.
Set Up:
Comanche
Cherokee
TEXAS
Apache
Wichita
Activity:
Select 1-2 students to be taggers. Place all the cards (characteristics) in the center hula
hoop. Each team/tribe (Comanche, Apache, Wichita, and Cherokee) will be at a corner
with a card with the information about their tribe. One team member will run, jog, skip,
or gallop to the center collect 1 hula-hoop. Other team members repeat until all 6 hoops
are collected. Once they return to their reservation, the tribe will build a hut/teepee with
the hula-hoops. Once the hut is stable then one team member will jog, gallop, or skip to
the center hula-hoop and collect one card. That team member will bring the card back to
their tribe (reservation) and the next person will have a turn and do the same. Once all the
cards have been collected then one tribe member will jog, gallop, or skip to the map of
Texas (in another hula hoop) and place their tribe card on the area of Texas that their
tribe once lived. Once the card is on the map the tribe has won the game.
One tagger will move throughout the area. This tagger will represent the Union
settlers trying to force the Native Americans off their land. If a settler tags a Native
American then he/she must return the characteristic in their hand to the center hula-hoop.
Then the Native American must go outside the playing area and perform five jumping
jacks, push-ups, or curl-ups and return to the game. Once the game ends have students
switch tribes so they learn about the characteristics of other tribes.
Review Questions:
Skill Focus: Did you find that you need to cooperate to settle your reservation?
Academic Focus: What are some similarities between the tribes?
Wichita – Mohawk hairstyle
Cherokee - baskets
Apache – hunted buffalo
Comanche – hunted buffalo
Wichita – hunted buffalo
Apache – lived in teepees
Comanche – lived in teepees
Wichita – lived in grass houses
Cherokee – lived in wooden huts
Comanche – fierce warriors
Apache – rode horses
Comanche – rode horses
Wichita – grew sunflowers
Cherokee – Trail of Tears
Cherokee – adopted Sam Houston
Apache – Geronimo was a leader of the tribe
Wichita – arrived in
Texas in 1720
Cherokee – arrived
in Texas in 1823
Apache – arrived in
Texas in 1528
Comanche – arrived
in Texas in 1840
Apache
Comanche
 Arrived in Texas in 1528
 Arrived in Texas in 1840
 Hunted buffalo
 Fierce warriors
 Rode horses
 Lived in Teepees
 Geronimo is a leader
 Rode horses
 Lived in Teepees
 Hunted buffalo
Cherokee
Wichita
 Arrived in Texas in 1823
 Arrived in Texas in 1720
 Adopted Sam Houston
 Lived in grass houses
 Famous for their baskets
 Hunted buffalo
 Lived in wooden huts
 Grew sunflowers
 Trail of Tears
 Mohawk hairstyle