Land and Early Societies

Land and Early Societies

3rd Grade · Social Studies · 30 min

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Learning Objective

• We are learning to describe how physical features of the land affected how early societies lived. • We are learning to explain how Indigenous communities in Canada developed sustainable practices related to the environment. • We are learning to compare environmental relationships in early societies to our own relationship with the environment today.

  • 1

    Indigenous means the earliest group to inhabit a land, or a group that existed there before colonizers arrived.

  • 2

    People make decisions about how to live based on their environment, and these choices are called adaptations.

  • 3

    The three geographic regions highlighted in this video are the temperate, arid, and arctic regions.