Students will analyze primary source images of Native Americans interacting with the environment. The images show different aspects of how Native Americans dressed, hunted, and lived.
This resource provides information about the city of Apex, NC. A video highlights the historical, environmental, and recreational activities the city offers.
This social studies lesson provides your young students with information about the differences between urban and rural communities. Through read-aloud books and writing activities, the students will study these types of communities and how they relate to each other.
Students will attempt to build a sod house by making choices regarding the construction of their house. Too many wrong answers and the house will collapse! This engaging and lighthearted activity will help students understand the challenges settlers faced while trying to survive on the open prairie.
This resource provides information about the city of Cary, NC. A video highlights the historical, environmental, and recreational activities the city offers.
Students learn about the ways that people modify their environment, along with positive and negative consequences of those changes.
This resource contains cross curricula activities to teach students about cities and towns.
This presentation describes the three types of communities.
In this lesson, students use data from visuals and graphs to make inferences about places. Students discover that human characteristics of places depend upon the natural resources found in environment in their community. Natural resources also affect jobs that are available in the area as well.
This lesson will address the physical and human characteristics of the local community. Students will build geographic vocabulary as well as use map skills.
In this lesson, students learn about the ways that people modify their environment, along with positive and negative consequences of those changes.
A look at how different environments affects how people live, work and play.
Students learn what defines a place and identify what defines their town as a place. Common examples such as weather, landscape, and plant/animal life can be used to begin the discussion. Then students will work in small groups to write their own lists.
This video series is broken up into two-part mini programs which each include a short video history lesson followed by a second video with a craft activity. These videos are designed to be viewed together to learn about history of Vance Birthplace State Historic Site in the mountains of North Carolina and life in the 1800s.
Students use data from visuals and graphs to make inferences about places. Students discover that human characteristics of places depend upon the natural resources found in environment in their community. Natural resources also affect jobs that are available in the area as well.
In this lesson, the students will compare and contrast their local community to other communities and will learn about urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Students will learn about the characteristics of urban, suburban, and rural communities by participating in whole group discussions and creating and populating various diagrams and graphic organizers.
In this activity, students study the geography of Greece and how it affects where people live and work. Students will then use art supplies to create a 3-D model of a Greek coastline.
This lesson will address the physical and human characteristics of the local community. Students will build geographic vocabulary as well as use map skills.
Students view a map of population density in the United States, describe the pattern of settlement they see near the coasts, and brainstorm and draw possible reasons for it.