How+Communities+Change

How Communities Change TEKS: 3.1A describe how individuals, events, and ideas have changed communities over time3.1B identify individuals who have helped to shape communities: // Pierre-Charles L'Enfant //3.1C describe how individuals have contributed to the expansion of existing communities or to the creation of new communities: // Christopher Columbus, //Meriwether Lewis and William Clark3.3A use vocabulary related to chronology: // ancient //and modern times, past, present, and future times3.3B create and interpret timelines 3.3C describe historical times in terms of years, decades, and centuries3 .12A explain significance of selected ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in Texas, US and other nations: St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Kwanzaa3.12B compare ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in Texas, the United States, and other nations

· Compare cultures in different regions such as the Alaskan Inuits, urban Manhattan residents, and New Orleans Gulf Coast residents using a Venn diagram · Read and interpret a variety of maps for different purposes; political, physical, resource, product, population, climate · Conduct a Webquest of elementary schools from different regions; compare and contrast their interests · Compare Eagle, Colorado with Round Rock, Texas using Harcourt p.4-9; activity in teacher manual p.7 · Read //I’m In Charge of Celebrations// and other works of Byrd Baylor that discuss desert and rural life · Read the book Flat Stanley and complete a project; view the webpage flatstanley.enreo.on.ca · //Harcourt Horizons// activity book p. 61 //Happy Holidays,// · Assessment Program p. 85 //Compare History Maps,// p.88-89 //Timelines// //of human adaptations// · Compare two climates using a Venn diagram · Identify the necessary characteristics of communities – a place to bury the dead, to dispose of trash, a place to grow crops, a source of water, paths of transportation Identify natural resources that humans use to meet their needs – bodies of water, forests, mineral deposits

__U.__S. Census Burea Website –  The Growth and Distribution of American Cities: 1790 to 2000 []

__Books__: //Time for Kids: ////The Amish, Egypt,// and //Celebrations//
 * //My World of Geography Series// by Angela Royston
 * //Mountains, Islands, Forests, Deserts. Dams Give Us Power// by Lee Sullivan Hill
 * //People and Places// by Michael Chinery
 * //Two-Can Ecology Series//: //“Life in the…”// by Lucy Baker, Roseanne Hooper, and Cathy Bradley
 * //Harcourt Horizons// textbook and ancillaries; student book Unit 4 p.201-209, p.241-250, p.252-280; Unit 5 p.326-331