Transcript Chapter 3 - RogersSocialStudies

American Indian Cultural Regions
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Why did the first Americans migrate to North
and South America?
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Where did they settle?
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What type of environments did they settle in?
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How did the Inuits adapt to the harsh Arctic
environment?
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Objective (I can…)
 identify, compare and contrast seven (7) American
Indian cultural regions.
 analyze artifacts to identify which ones American
Indians may have used as they adapted to each
region.
 identify aspects of the ways of life of young American
Indians from the different cultural regions.
 define culture, nomadic, cultural region, artifact,
mesa, gorge, and government.
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Look at your sheet of a PHYSICAL MAP.
Why do you think it’s called a “physical” map?
 Because it has the physical landforms on it (ex.
mountains, rivers, etc.).
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What sports equipment are pictured on this page?
 canoe, snow skis, and surfboard
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Identify the areas where this sports equipment
might commonly be used?
 Write a sentence to explain your answer.
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Now place a symbol on the map to show where each
type of equipment might be used in the United
States.
Create a key for your symbols of a canoe, snow ski,
and surfboard.
 Be ready to share.
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What’s the purpose of this activity???
 Environmental factors such as climate, vegetation, and
physical land features affect culture, or the way people live.
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In this lesson, you will learn how American Indians
lived in SEVEN areas of North America.
1. How many areas, or sections, do you see on the map?
2. Why do you think the map shows pictures in each area?
3. What do you think the picture in each area represents?
4. Why do you think the map is divided in this way?
This shows the seven cultural regions of the American Indians.
We will use this map to understand the differences and
similarities among the American Indian groups.
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Look at the Historical Artifacts of Native
Americans.
Artifacts are objects made and used by people.
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You will use the information about the environment
of each region to debate which artifacts are likely to
have been created by an American Indian tribe
from a certain region.
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You must be able to defend your decisions!
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Let’s read section 3.1 – page 29 in the textbook.
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Who are nomads?
 People who moved place to place for food.
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Now lets read the first two paragraphs on pg. 30.
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Look at the picture of the Northwest Coast:
Identify some specific geographic features.
 rocky beach, shoreline
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What was main natural resource they had?
 forest/trees
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In your notes using the heading above – for each
section we read (ex. 3.2) take notes on:
1. Cultural region (ex. Northwest Coast)
2. Tribes (ex. Tlingits, Chinook, Kwakiutls)
3. Artifacts (ex. Wood houses, waterproof cedar-bark
clothing, cedar/willow fish traps, etc.)
Why do you think these tribes made wood houses?
Cedar bark clothes? Wood fish traps? And other
artifacts made from trees???
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Resources available for creating the artifact.
Environmental factors that made the artifact useful.
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From what we learned about the Northwest
Coast, which artifact (home, clothing,
miscellaneous) came from that region on
Historical Artifacts handout 3A?
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Let’s identify the other tribes/regions artifacts
by reading the other sections.
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Your table will be assigned a cultural region to
read about in your textbook.
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EVERYONE must take notes on all of the tribes and
artifacts from reading the section.
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Determine the “Presenter” for your table and
he/she should be ready to share your table’s notes.
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Remember take notes on the:
1. Name of the cultural region- (ex. Northwest Coast)
2. Tribes found there- (ex. Tlingits, Chinook, Kwakiutls)
3. Artifacts they made- (ex. Wood houses, waterproof
cedar-bark clothing, cedar/willow fish traps, etc.)
Native American Cultural Regions
Directions: Name each of the region. Use the key below and color each region on the map and on the key.
Draw the type of housing used in that region.
Southwest
Great Plains
Northwest Coast
Eastern Woodlands
Southeast
Plateau
Californian-Intermountain
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What was the purpose of this lesson???
 Learn about the environmental factors such as climate,
vegetation, and physical land features affect culture,
or the way people live in the seven cultural regions of
North America.
Why did some tribes make different artifacts???
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Resources available for creating the artifact in their
specific region.
Environmental factors that made the artifact useful.