Georgia SS3H1.b
The Standard
Compare and contrast how American Indians in each region used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Describe early American Indian cultures and their development in North America.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect regional climates, plants, animals, and materials to the ways American Indians met basic needs. They compare similarities and differences across regions using specific evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can compare two regions in terms of food, clothing, and shelter. They explain how available resources led to choices such as buffalo hide clothing, cedar plank houses, or adobe homes.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all American Indians lived in tipis, hunted buffalo, or used the same materials. They may place adobe homes in the Arctic or igloos in the Southwest. They may also treat historical practices as descriptions of all American Indians today.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Compare the Plains and Southwest in a three-row chart for food, clothing, and shelter, then explain one difference using environmental evidence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups clay, craft sticks, bark, and fabric scraps to model one regional shelter and label the local materials used.
Ask students to write which regional environment would make finding food hardest, then support their answer with two details.
Play a card-matching game that pairs each region with an environmental resource and a related food, clothing item, or shelter.
List natural resources found in Georgia, then compare how they could meet basic needs with Southeast American Indian resource use.
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Related Standards
- SS8H1.a
Describe the characteristics of American Indians living in Georgia at the time of European contact; to include culture, food, weapons/tools, and shelter.
- SS3H1
Describe early American Indian cultures and their development in North America.
- SS3G3.a
Explain why American Indian groups occupied the areas they did (SS3H1a), with emphasis on why some developed permanent villages and others did not.
- SS3H1.c
Discuss how American Indians continue to contribute to American life (e.g., arts, literature).
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