Social Studies (1st Nine Weeks)
Map and Globe Skills
Essential Question
How do I locate physical features on a map of the United States? How do the elements of maps help us to understand them?
Enduring Understanding
- Physical features are created by nature.
- The physical features of a place make it unique.
- Maps are visual representations of a portion of the earth.
- The features of a map help us to understand the information presented.
- Geographers use a grid system in describe location.
http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm (pictures and information of landforms)
Physical Features of the United States
- Locate physical features in the United States; include the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Great Plains, Continental Divide, the Great Basin, Death Valley, Gulf of Mexico, St. Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes.
Topic 1 Vocabulary
- physical feature
- physical map
- political map
- landform
- coastal plain
- Continental Divide
- Great Basin
- Great Plains
- Great Lakes
Native Cultures
Essential Question: How did early Native American cultures develop in North America? How do people adapt to their physical environments?
Enduring Understanding
- The physical geography of North America had an impact on where and how Native Americans settled.
- Native Americans used their environments to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.
Unit Vocabulary
- Inuit
- Kwakiutl
- Nez Perce
- Hopi
- Pawnee
- Seminole
- environment
- civilization
- clan
- settlement
- permanent
- irrigation
- survival
- surplus
- climate
- Arctic
- Northwest
- Plateau
- Southwest
- Plains
Download Native american term flash card
Pawnee
Plains
- Locate where the Pawnee settled (permanent villages near rivers).
- Describe how the Pawnee used their environment to obtain food (farming & hunting), clothing (buffalo skin), and shelter (lodges - bark, earth, grass).
Research Links:
Seminole
The Southeast
- Locate where the Seminole settled (villages in Florida).
- Describe how the Seminole used their environment to obtain food (farming and hunting), clothing (fur & woven grasses), and shelter (along rivers and streams).
Historical footage that shows their homeland and daily life... (movie)
Answers to frrequently asked questions
Research Links:
Hopi
The Southwest
- Locate where the Hopi settled (permanent villages in present day Arizona).
- Describe how the Hopi used their environment to obtain food (corn), clothing (woven fabrics and animal hides/hairs), and shelter (pueblo villages).
- Hopi- People of Peace
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Inuit
The Arctic
- Locate whre the Inuit settled.
- Describe how the Inuit used their environment to obtain food (caribou & seals), clothing (animals skins), and shelter (igloos)
How do the Inuit people build an igloo? (movie)
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Nez Perce
Plateau
- Locate where the Nez Perce settled (between Cascades & Rockies; migrated and traveled on rivers and settled in valleys).
- Describe how the Nez Perce used their environment to obtain food (fishing and hunting), clothing (made from trees & shrubs & animal skins), and shelter (lodges).
Buffalo hide Nez Perce lodge (movie)
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Kwakiutl
The Northwest
- Locate where the Kwakiutl settled (left their villages in spring, summer, & fall to settle near rivers).
- Describe how the Kwakiutl used their environment to obtain food (fishing), clothing (cedar tree bark and animal skins), and shelter (cedar tree houses).
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