Unit 3: Human Geography in the US
Day 1
Add the nineteen words from Unit 3 (see below) to your WWK notebook section. Click each image of the vocab pages below to see it larger. You can also click "download file" to view and print the words. Remember to CONTINUE YOUR NUMBERING from before, and not use the numbers you see here.
WWK Unit 3 |
Day 2
Complete page 33, 34, and 35 (shown below). The map will help you answer the questions on page 42.
Day 3
Read Just A Dream by Chris Van Allsburg (can be checked out of local library or the school library). Discuss the choices/actions people made and what consequences those actions (good or bad) had on the environment. Fill out the chart on page 36, using examples from the book AND further examples from real life.
Day 4
Read the info on the Movement page (below). Create the chart on page 37 of your notebook, and brainstorm what things might be a push or pull factor that causes people to move.
Day 4
- Title page 38 "Underground Railroad". Write down everything you remember learning about it in the past. After, add these to your list:
- Underground Railroad - secret organization of routes, safe houses, and people that guided escaped slaves from the South to freedom in the North. It was NOT a railroad and it was NOT underground. Mostly between 1830-1861.
- Conductor - a person who helped slaves escape to freedom in the north by using the underground railroad, would transport or hide them along the way
- Underneath that, make a t-chart of the push factors and pull factors involved in the underground railroad. What reasons did people want to escape slavery in the south? What reasons did they want to move to the North and Canada?
- Title Page 39 "Immigrant Story". Read Dominik's story (link below). He moved from Poland to America. Make another t-chart. What were the push factors and pull factors involved in Dominik's move to America?
Immigrant Story |
Day 5
- Title page 40 "Moving to America". Look at the maps below, one by one. For EACH map, answer the following questions:
- What group of people is this map showing?
- Which areas of the US have more of these people living there?
- Why do you think they live in those specific areas?
Day 5 continued
- ***HINT FOR THE FOURTH MAP***: Think about why there are more of this group in the dark red area. You need to look back into history and think about what was happening in that part of the country at the time (the 1800s). To understand why so many black people live in that part of the country today, you need to think about why so many people from Africa began living in that part of the country in the first place.
- What theme of geography is most related to what we did today?
Day 6
- Title page 41 "Moving to America" Write about...
- Imagine you are an immigrant from another country.
- You just moved to the US.
- How do you decide where to live?
- What are you looking for in a new home? What are you going to want in a place that makes it the "right place" to settle?
- What "pull factors" might draw you to certain areas?
- Read the "Moving to Michigan" article (attached below). Glue the "Moving to Michigan" chart (included in the article) to page 42. Use the article to fill it in.
- On page 43, glue in the Moving to Michigan Long List chart (also attached below).
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Day 7
- Title page 44 Finns in Michigan. Look at the map below and write the answers to these questions:
- What group of people is shown on this map?
- Which area of the country has the strongest settlement of these people?
- According to the article from yesterday, when did this group of people settle in Michigan?
- According to the article from yesterday, what pull factors brought this group of people to Michigan?
- Read the Finnish Influences information (attached below). Please list AT LEAST FIVE ways Finnish people influenced the culture of the Upper Peninsula. This means the parts of their lifestyle that they brought with them from Finland that have lived on and are still part of life in the UP today.
Finnish Influences |
Day 8
PAGE 52 OF YOUR NOTEBOOK
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PAGE 53 OF YOUR NOTEBOOK
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PAGE 54 OF YOUR NOTEBOOK
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- Understand, all of these items are part of those immigrant's CULTURE from their home country. Culture is the way of life of a group of people.
- Culture includes all the ways of life including arts, beliefs, manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, games, and behavioral norms.
- When immigrants came to the United States, they brought parts of their culture with them. The new place is changed by these new pieces of culture, and may end up with different food, language, traditions, or religion because of all the immigrants who moved there.
- Watch the video below
- Talk with your group (or family if you're at home) about what some parts are of your family's culture.
- Are there things your family does that are a result of your cultural background or the countries your ancestors came from? This could be your religion, family recipes, holiday traditions, or many other things. For example, my family eats pierogies all the time because that is part of our Slovak culture.
Day 10
- Download and print the Unit 3 Study Guide (below). Use your Social Studies notebook to fill it out.
- Write in your planner: Vocab Quiz in two days, Unit 3 Test in three days.
- If you have extra time, study your vocab words.
Unit 3 Study Guide |
Day 11
- Finish study guide
- Check study guide as a class (answer key below)
- Study vocab words
- Study your study guide
Study Guide ANSWER KEY |
Day 12
- Vocab Swat Review Game as a class (or review your words somehow on your own)
- Take the Unit 3 Vocab Quiz
- Log on to classroom.google.com
- Go to the Vocab Quiz assignment
- Click the link to get to the quiz
- Take your quiz
- After you submit your quiz, review your grade.
- Use a calculator to figure out your grade as a percent.
- Give yourself checkbook quiz money if you earned it.
Day 13
- Take the Unit 3 Assessment
- Log on to classroom.google.com
- Go to the Unit 3 Assessment assignment
- Click the link to get to the test.
- Take the test.
- Some questions are automatically graded, but you will not get your final grade until later, as Ms. Smith has to read and grade your other answers.
Day 14
- Log in to your school email account at gmail.com
- Find the e-mail that says "Score Releases - Unit 3 Assessment"
- Open the e-mail and click "View Score".
- This is your grade on the Unit 3 Test.
- Read over the feedback, especially on the ones you got incorrect, to learn from your mistakes.