1. Lesson 1 – The first Americans History Alive! P. 2-24

2.  State Standards Objectives  GEO. 1b. Describe the nature and spatial distribution of cultural patterns

3.   The first Americans:  American Indians  Migration Routes  Land Bridge – Beringia  Environment  Native Americans of the Northwest Coast  Native Americans of California  Native Americans of the Great Basin  American Indians of the Plateau  American Indians of the Southwest  America Indians of the Great Plains  American Indians of the Eastern Woodlands  American Indians of the Southeast Content Standards

4.   Who were the first Americans?  How did they get here?  What similarities and differences are there between the many different early American people? Essential Questions

5.   Resourceful  Land Bridge  Migrated  Hunters and Gathers  Environment  Cultural Region  Ice Age  Beringia Key Terms

6.  Physical Geography of North America (You will need to label the following)  Rocky Mountains  Appalachian Mountains  Coastal Plains  Great Plains  Sierra Nevada  Atlantic Ocean  Pacific Ocean  Gulf of Mexico  Great Lakes  Mississippi River  Platte River  Colorado River  Rio Grande  Ohio River  Arkansas River  Red River  Saint Lawrence River  Hudson Bay

8.   The first Americans were considered Resourceful, people who were very creative in their methods to adapt to the many different environments of North America.  Scientist today are still trying to find out even more about these early people.  The most studied question about these people is, where and when did they inhabit North America? The First Americans - Introduction

9.  The Earliest Americans  While civilizations were developing in Africa, Asia, and Europe, they were also emerging in the Americas.  At first, the ancient people of the Americans survived mainly by hunting and gathering.  Over time, they developed farming methods that ensured a more reliable supply of food.  This led to the growth of the first American civilizations.

10.   The American continents include North and South America  They are connected and span two hemispheres, from the frigid Arctic Circle in the north to the icy waters around Antarctica in the south.  The Americas were once connected by a land bridge to Asia.  Most experts believe that some of the first people came to the Americas from Asia over the land bridge.  The Land Bridge is known as Beringia The Great land Bridge

12.   The first Americans arrived sometime toward the end of the last Ice Age, which was roughly 1.9 million to about 10,000 B.C.  Hugh Sheets of moving ice, called glaciers, spread southward from the Arctic Circle.  They covered portions of North America.  The buildup of glaciers locked up huge amounts of the earths water.  It lowered sea levels and created a land corridor between Asia and Alaska across what is now the Bering Strait. Peopling the Americas

14.  American Hunters and Gathers  Hunter and Gather Societies follow the food source as it moves to fresh water, warmer temperatures and fresh grasses to eat.  When the animals that were hunted ran scarce, other plans for survival were required.

15.   American Indians lived in a variety of places, from snowy forests to dry deserts and vast grasslands.  An environment include everything that surrounds us; land, water, animals, and plants.  Groups of American Indians survived by adapting or changing their life style of living to suit each environment they inhabited. The First Americans Adapt to the Environment

17.  American Indian Cultural Regions  Over generations, groups of American Indians developed their own cultures, or ways of life.  Many became part of larger groupings that were loosely organized under common leaders.  Cultural Region is made up of people who share a similar language and way of life.  By 1400, 1 and 2 million American Indians lived in ten major regions north of Mexico.

19.   You will use your text book to complete a American Indian Cultural Regions Map (p. 8)  You will label all Regions and shade each with an individual color.  You will turn in your North American Maps with all labeled and colored Physical Geography.  Please be sure your names are on all work before turning it in. Assessment