Land and Early Societies

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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.

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Warm-up video

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

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

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Practice

3 questions

1

Name three things that make people's lives different in the Arctic, Arid, and Temperate regions.

2

The Inuit people used what resource to build their homes?

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Exit ticket

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Name one way that the Inuit people adapted to the cold, icy environment in which they lived.

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