The Land and Its People

The Land

And Its People

Multiple Choice

Which came first? The people or the land?

• The people

• The land

• Neither really exist

• Both came into being at the same time

Open Ended

In ELA for the last two weeks, we have learned about how environments influence character development. How did the harsh environment in Bradbury's All Summer in a Day influence the way the children's characters developed in that story?

IRL

environments also influence the way people and animals develop and live.

Before we learn more about the indigenous nations of what is today called Maryland, it's important to be familiar with the different geographical regions where the people live/d

Classification

For this lesson, we will say that Maryland has three regions (as pictured). However, as you research, you may find maps where MD has more regions, maybe with different names than the ones shown here. Geographers may vary their language or the details of their classification; however, this map still gives us a sense of the key characteristics of regions in MD.

Three Geographical Regions of Maryland

• Appalachian Mountains

• Piedmont Plateau

• The Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain

Multiple Choice

Three geographical regions that you will find in Maryland are:

• Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, and Protist

• Appalachian Mountain, Piedmont Plateau, and Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain

• Greenmount West, Mount Vernon, and Barclay

• Any of these answers would be correct

Appalachian Mountain Region

Western part of the state

Elevation is 1000-3360 feet

Cooler climate than the rest of the state

Forests, ridges, valleys, Deep Creek Lake

Piedmont Plateau

Central part of state

Elevation is 800-1200 feet

Rolling hills, rocks, waterfalls, rapids

Good farmland

Cities and factories

Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain

Eastern side of Maryland

Includes Eastern and Western Shore

Elevation from 0 - 400 feet

Covers one-half of Maryland

Marshes, the Chesapeake Bay, rivers, streams

Mild climate

Open Ended

Appalachian Mountain,

Piedmont Plateau, or

Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Imagine that we are living many years before the Europeans came to North America. In which of the regions listed above would you most want to live?

Why?

Multiple Choice

Which group of people lived in Maryland first?

• English and Irish

• Vikings

• First Nations, or Native Americans

• West Africans (from what today would be called Guinea Bissau).

The three main Indigenous Nations

that lived, and still live, in Maryland are the Iroquois ( different groups of Iroquois are written in green), the Algonquin (different groups of Algonquin written in red), and the Sioux (groups written in dk. blue).

Remember:

• Boundaries were fluid--people from different indigenous nations shared territory and moved around

• The Iroquois, Algonquin, and Sioux were large nations or confederacies that stretched far beyond the borders of what we today call Maryland.

Open Ended

1. All humans have the same fundamental human needs for food, shelter, clothing, etc.

2. The environment that we live in influences how we meet these fundamental needs.

3. Let's go back in time---400 years back. Imagine two families--one Iroquois living in the mountain region, and the other Algonquin living on the Eastern shore.

What is each family eating for supper? How did the environment influence what they are eating for supper?

Ohwejagehka Gaenasho:oh. Social Songs/ Iroquois