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Social Studies 1st 9 Weeks

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

Native American WebQuest

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).
Pawnee Information
 
Research Links:
Pawnee 1
Pawnee 2
Pawnee 3

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:

Seminole 1

Seminole 2

Seminole 3

 

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
 
Research Links:
Hopi 1
Hopi 2
Hopi 3
Hopi 4
 

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)

Inuit Myths and Legends

Research Links:

Inuit 1

Inuit 2

Inuit 3

 

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)

General information

Research Links:

Nez Perce 1

Nez Perce 2

Nez Perce 3

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).

Kwakiutl Tribe

Totem Poles (History)

Totem Poles (History 2)

Research Links:

Kwakiutl 1

Kwakiutl 2

Kwakiutl 3

 

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