Story+1

Story 1: The Land and Its People

A: Geography Activities: (1 B is a mapping skills booklet) (there is also a handout)
 * What are the characteristics of North America's physical regions?
 * How do physical and climatic forces shape the land, past and future?

B: First Nations Activities: C: Early Contact Activities:
 * How did Aboriginal Peoples come to occupy North America?
 * What does an ethnology of a First Nations group reveal about subsistence, geographic adaptation and culture?
 * Why and how did various cultures visit North America before the 1500s, and why did they leave?
 * What patterns and impacts resulted from visits by Europeans in the 1500s?

Wrap-up, presentations, and unit test.

Three verifications:
 * Assessment summary:**
 * A: Geography Skills
 * B: First Nations Knowledge
 * C: Early Contact

Project 1: Physiographic Map Project 2: Aboriginal Cultural Study/Profile

Unit test