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- Large piece of bulletin board paper
- White, blank 9" x 12" drawing paper (two pieces per student)
- Scissors, glue, and crayons/colored pencils
- Discuss the term adaptation. Relate it to what students learned in second grade about animal adaptations, American Indians (First Americans), and Egyptians. Using a large piece of bulletin board paper, write the information in a cause-and-effect chart.
Cause (Environmental conditions) |
Effect (Adaptation) |
There is a summer drought. |
Frogs estivate. |
Winter causes cold temperatures to arrive. |
Birds migrate.
Bears hibernate. |
The Eastern Woodland region had many forests. |
Powhatan Indians used trees to build wood and bark shelters and canoes. |
The Southwest region had a desert-like climate with little rainfall. |
The Pueblo Indians made their shelters from adobe clay and hunted for food. |
The Nile River flooded yearly. |
The Egyptians used the rich alluvial soil along the Nile to farm their crops. |
- Locate Greece on a map, and note that it is on the Mediterranean Sea. Discuss ways the Greeks adapted to their environment: They farmed on hillsides using terraced farming; traded with other countries on the Mediterranean Sea; and developed small independent communities because the mountains and hills divided the people. Add these facts to the Cause-and-Effect chart.
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Discuss the term characteristics (different traits). Ask students how this location might affect human characteristics and occupations (farmers, shipbuilders, and traders).
- Have students add two pages to their ancient Greece booklet and illustrate them.
Page 2—Adaptations to Environment
Page 3—Human Characteristics and Occupations
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