Lesson · Grade 3 · Social Studies
How People Reshape the Land
- Grade 3
- Social Studies
- 1 min
- British Columbia
- BC3-SS-06
One picture of land with a hill, trees and a river changes one step at a time: people clear trees for a farm that grows food, dig a mine that brings out rocks holding metals, build a dam whose lake waters the farm and often makes electricity, and flatten bumps to lay a road where a truck carries the food and rocks. It ends on the recap that farms, mines, dams and roads reshape the land so people can use what it holds.
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The question this lesson answers
Here is some land with a hill, trees and a river.
How do people change the land so they can use it?
Transcript
What the lesson says
Here is some land with a hill, trees and a river.
How do people change the land so they can use it?
People clear away trees to make room for a farm.
Crops grow on the farm and give people food.
People dig a mine deep into the hill.
From the mine, they bring out rocks that hold metals.
People build a dam, a strong wall across the river.
Water fills up behind the dam and makes a lake.
People use the water for farms, and many dams also make electricity.
People flatten the ground and build a road.
Trucks carry the food and the rocks along the road.
Farms, mines, dams and roads reshape the land so people can use what it holds.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 3
Social Studies, People and the land: relationship between humans and their environmentBC3-SS-06
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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