Unit 1: Natural Texas and Its People
Overview: This unit covers the geography and regions of Texas, as well as the American Indian groups that lived in Texas before the colonization of Europeans.
Assessment
Assessment
Region: A spacial area of the Earth's surface that is defined by common properties.
Physical Characteristics: Landforms and soils, bodies and sources of water, vegetation, climate, weather patterns, and animals. Human Characteristics: Language, religion, political and economic systems, ethnicity, age, and culture. Landform Video Regions of Texas: Cornel Notes The Great Plains
Mountains and Basins |
The Coastal Plains
North Central Plains |
Region's Project
Groups are responsible for labeling the following cities, landmarks and bodies of water in their journals and on their project:
Groups are responsible for labeling the following cities, landmarks and bodies of water in their journals and on their project:
Regions' Project
Alternate Assignment: You will choose a tribe from a different region. You will be writing a first person account (diary entry) from a member of that tribe. Your writing piece must be written in 1st person and cover the following:
Diary Example
- How you get food (farm, hunt, fish, etc..)
- What type of food you eat (Fish, turtles, buffalo, vegetables, etc..)
- What type of dwelling you live in (tipi, adobe, wickiups, wigwams, etc..)
- The climate of your region
- A hobby or activity (games, pottery, tattoos, etc..)
- Two other interesting facts
Diary Example
Native People of Texas that we will be looking at this year.
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native_groups_of_texas_handouts.pdf |