1. SS Resource Booklet Assignment:
Set-up your Resource Booklet pages. 3 Hole Punch left-side for your binder.
Front Page Inside Pages Back Page
Page 1: Themes of Geography
Pages 2 & 3: Geographic effects on the Elements of Culture.
Page 4: Cultural Comparison & Possibilities when cultures compete for natural resources, Motivations for Imigration/Exploration.
Clothing
Shelter
Food
Region
Location: Absolute 5
Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Movement
H.E.I.
Region
Native Americans
Europeans
Clothing
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Food
Motivation(s) for Migrating to
North America:
Motivation(s) for Exploration
G______ G______ G______

2. Page 1: Front - 5 Themes of Geography – Learning Goals
Master the Key Analytical Principle – 5 Themes of Geography
Application: Use the 5 Themes of Geography to analyze one of the 3 key Colonial Era geographic regions. Become your group’s regional, geographic EXPERT for one of these 3 key regions of the North American Continent: Northeastern Coastal Region; Middle Region; Southeastern Coastal Region
Review and highlight the Summary Squares below. Cut out the squares and tape them on page 1 of the Resource Booklet.
If you did not readily remember the 5 Themes of Geography using the Summary Squares, read Chapter 1 SS Textbook.
Each Table Team, should choose 1 of the following 3 North American continental, geographic regions.
Northern Region
Middle Region
Southern Region
Research your chosen region using the internet and information in the SS Textbook.
Make Expert Notes on the Front Page around your Summary Squares.
Include which of the 13 Colonies was included in your region. (SS pages: _____)
Use the 5 Themes of Geography to organize and quality check for completeness your notes.
Place:
To describe a place it is important to consider its features, the characteristics that make one place different from another. Many places have distinct physical features such as landforms, bodies of water, climate, and natural resources. Places often also contain human features, such as buildings, highways, and airports. The number of people and their customs are also human features that help to describe a place.
3) Human Environment Interactions: People interact with the environment in several ways. Sometimes people change their environment by clearing the land for construction or farming. Other times, they help the environment by protecting land and animals and planting trees. The physical environment also can affect people. The physical environment of some places can make life more difficult, such as bad weather, but in other places the physical environment provides necessities like fresh water.
Location:
To determine where a place is, direction is often used. The Cardinal Directions help determine where one place is in relation to another. Latitude and longitude are used to find the exact location of a place. Latitude lines extend from east to west, measuring how far a place is from the equator. Longitude lines go from north to south and measure how far a place is from the Prime Meridian. Another means of determining location is the use of numbers and street names. Landmarks also help to indicate the location of a place.
5) Movement: Movement describes how people, goods, and ideas get from place to place. People travel and transport goods in a variety of ways: ships, trains, airplanes, cars, and trucks. Ideas are often communicated by phones, computers, televisions, newspapers, and radios. How, why, and where people move affects the way that places grow and change. A sudden influx of people can result in the birth of cities in a region. Also, the physical features of a place can affect the movement of people, ideas and goods. Rivers are a good means of transportation, while mountains inhibit travel.
4) Regions: Because it is very large, the earth is divided into regions to facilitate its study. A region is an area with at least one common feature that makes it different from areas around it. Regions can be based on similarities in physical features, human features, industries, culture, heritage, and government.

3. Inside: Pages 2 & 3 - Elements of Culture– Learning Goals
Master the Key Analytical Principle – 9 Elements of Culture
Application: Use the 9 Elements of Culture to explore the effects of geography have on the development of human culture.
From memory, list the Elements of Culture. (Hints: Real Bunnies Like Tech F.A.C.T.S.)
3 elements are directly affected by geography: Food, Shelter & Clothing
5 elements are sometimes indirectly affected by geography: recreation, beliefs, the Arts, traditions, technology
Only language seems to not be influenced by geography.
Go to page 46 in your SS Textbook and select 2 Regional Native American Cultures to research using your textbook and the internet.
For each of your chosen cultures, collect data about 3 required and 1 element of your choosing. Make notes in your culture wheels in colored pictures and with words.
Around each wheel, fill in the space with a drawing of the relevant environments. Include depictions of key physical features, flora (plants) and fauna (animals).
Clothing
Shelter
Food
Region
Location: Absolute

4. Geographic natural resources such as land, water, game …
Back: Page 4 - Cultural Comparison & Possible Interactions
Master the Key Analytical Principle – Potential Interactions between Competing Cultures for Limited Resources
Application: Use the 9 Elements of Culture to explore the effects of geography have on the development of human culture. Infer the possible results of the Age of Exploration on Native American cultures.
Watch the following clip of the Song: Color of the Wind from Disney’s Pocohontas depicting the Woodland Native American culture. Collect and recode observations about 3 required and 1 curtural element of your choosing. Make notes in your culture wheels in colored pictures and with words.
Around the Native American wheel, fill in the space with a drawing of the environment. Include depictions of key physical features, flora (plants) and fauna (animals).
Watch the following clip of the Songs: Savages & Mine Mine Mine from Disney’s Pocohontas depicting the European’s culture. Collect and recode observations about 3 required and 1 cultural element of your choosing. Make notes in your culture wheels in colored pictures and with words.
Around the European wheel, fill in the space with a drawing of the environment. Include depictions of key physical features, flora (plants) and fauna (animals).
1) Now, look at these 2
Cultures. Imagine them
competing for the same
Geographic natural resources such as land, water, game …
What do you think could happen?
Brainstorming Time!!!
Fill-in your ideas in the rectangle in between the cultures.
Predict/ share which of the results actually happened.
Why do you think this was the result?
Do you think this always has to be the result between cultures?
What could be done to encourage other results?
How can we relate this to our modern lives?
Native Americans
Europeans
Clothing
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Food
Motivation(s) for Migrating to
North America:
Motivation(s) for Exploration
North America: The 3 G’s
G______ G_________ G__________
If you don’t know how & why Paleo-Indians
arrived in North America, watch this clip!