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Early Settlements in the US
Big Idea
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Early Settlements in the United States were affected by environmental factors that maps can help us visualize.
Essential Questions
How do different landforms and bodies of water in unique environments provide resources that affect the everyday life of people in the United States?
Why does knowing the symbols and features of a map allow us to know more about the people that live there?
How do people impact resources in their environment?
How are living styles and culture affected by the resources available in a community's environment?
Key Understandings
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Students will understand that the variety of landforms (mountains, plains, hills) and bodies of water (lakes, oceans, rivers, creeks) affected where early colonies and settlements in different regions of the United States chose to live.
Students will understand the impact of natural resources on early settlements in the United States. (Living styles, Cultures)
Students will understand that maps can show environmental features that allow us to visualize why early settles settled where they did.
Students will understand basic needs and how early settles utilized different resources in various regions to meet these needs.
Students will understand that maps display important features on a non-accurate scale.
Grade 2 Standards
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Literacy Standards
Reading- RL.2.2- Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral
Writing- W.2.8- Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Speaking and Listening- SL.2.2- Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media
Speaking and Listening- SL.2.4- Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Language- L.2.2- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
Geography Standards
2.SS.2.1.1- Identify landforms, bodies of water, and human made features such as cities and dams on a map and globe.
2.SS.2.1.2- States the cardinal directions and how to use a compass rose
2.SS.2.1.3- State that map symbols such as key, legend, and scale represent a real object or place.
2.SS.2.1.4- Illustrate that boundary lines separate states
2.SS.2.2.1- Compare how environmental conditions affect living styles and clothing in different parts of the country.
2.SS.2.2.2- Describe how humans depend on the environment to meet their basic needs
Students will know....
Where one early settlement in Idaho was located and why. (Writing- W.2.8)
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The key features shown on a map, including, landforms, bodies of waters, and early towns/ settlements (2.SS.2.1.1)
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How clothing and living styles were impacted by where an early settlement was located (2.SS.2.2.1)
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Why humans depend on the environment to meet their basic needs. (2.SS.2.2.2)
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Students will be able to...
Create a map that includes environmental elements that affected an early settlement in the state of Idaho. (2.SS.2.1.1)
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Use a variety of secondary and primary sources to identify how people were affected by the resources around them. (Writing- W.2.8)
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Recount a story to a small group that contains facts about an early settlement in the state of Idaho. (Reading- R.2.2)
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Use correct grammar and punctuation to complete a 2 paragraph essay with their group on the assigned early settlement in Idaho. (Language- L.2.2)
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NCSS Standards
Culture and Cultural Diversity
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People, Places, and Environments
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Time, Continuity, and Change
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