Lesson 3: People and the Environment

Getting Started

Questions to Explore

• What causes change?
• How do changes in the environment affect people and animals?

Facts and Definitions

• An urban community is a large city.
• A suburban community is a smaller town or area that is located right outside a larger community.
• A rural community is a very small community that is not as near to a large city as a suburb.

Skills

• Describe human movement in the settlement patterns of rural, urban, and suburban areas. (SS)
• Compare information from different sources about places and regions. (SS)
• Describe how weather patterns, natural resources, seasonal patterns, and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns. (SS)
• Identify, predict, replicate, and create patterns using charts, graphs, and numbers. (S)
• Observe, measure, and record changes in weather, the night sky, and seasons. (S)

Materials

• crayons or colored pencils

Introduction