Idaho Social Studies 2.SS.2.3

Social Studies2nd GradeGeography

The Standard

Describe how humans depend on the environment to meet their basic needs.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify food, water, and shelter as needs people meet with things from nature. They explain links, such as plants growing in soil and trees providing wood for homes.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can trace an apple to a tree, tap water to a river or groundwater, and wood for a home to trees. They can explain how each helps people live.
Common Misconceptions: Some students think food starts at the store and water starts at the faucet. Others think a house does not need materials from nature.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, ask: “Where do an apple and the wood in a house come from? Draw each source and write why people need the apple or the house.”

Lesson moves

Pass around an apple, a cup of tap water, and a craft stick; have students draw each item and label its natural source.
Ask pairs, “What would people in our town do if they had no clean drinking water?” Have each pair share one answer.
Play a matching game with picture cards: pair food with soil and sunlight, drinking water with rivers, and shelter with trees or stone.
Give students a grocery flyer; have them circle three foods grown on farms and explain what each plant needs from nature.

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