Ready, Set, Teach! For quick hints on how to teach this chapter, log on to Chapter 1 Indiana’s Geography myWorldSocialStudies.com. Big Question: Target Reading Skill: Chapter How does geography affect Main Idea and Details Objectives the way we live? Begin With the Students will demonstrate the following enduring understandings: End in Mind • Indiana has many varied landforms and • Indiana’s physical features have affected water features. where people settled and what economic • Indiana is divided into three regions, activities take place. each of which has different geographical • Indiana’s geographic features help to make features and natural resources. it a crossroads for both national and international trade. Student Worktext Digital Presentation Connect • Big Question • myStory Spark Make Learning • myStory Spark • myStory Video • myStory Meaningful Student Worktext 21st Century Learning Experience • Lessons 1–3 Online Tutor Teach Knowledge • Got It? Formative Assessments • Main Idea and Details • myStory Ideas • Use Latitude and Longitude and Skills • Target Reading Skill: Main Idea and Details • 21C Skill Lesson: Use Latitude and Longitude myWorld Leveled Readers Student Worktext Digital Presentation Understand • Review and Assessment • myWorld Activity Assess • myStory Book • myStory Book Understanding myWorld Activity myStory Book Online • Geography: Mapping People and Students write, illustrate, and publish a digital the Environment book. Chapter Assessment Chapter Assessment • Chapter Test, Forms A and B Administer online tests. 1 ESS15_TE04_IN_C01_OP.indd 1 31/01/15 2:33 AM Chapter 1 Indiana’s Geography Chapter Opener Lesson Plan Summary Objectives • Establish meaning. Target Reading Skill • Make meaningful connections to Objective: personal experiences. • Identify main ideas and • Utilize prior knowledge to gain details. understanding. ELL Objective: • Use different strategies to explore new vocabulary. PRESENTATION Use the Big Question Activity to introduce the chapter’s main idea. 30 minutes Chapter 1 myStory Spark 1 myStory Video Introduction Introduce this chapter using the Worktext. Use the Big Question Activity to introduce the chapter’s main idea. 45 minutes • What are some different kinds of physical features? 2 WORKTEXT • How do different kinds of physical features affect the way Active Reading people live? myStory Spark • What landforms and bodies of water are near your community? • How does the geography of your community affect the way people live? myStory Video • How can a region’s natural resources, such as rich soil and water, affect the people who live there? Hand out Target Reading Skill worksheets. Not enough time Hand out Words to Know worksheets. for social studies? Teach these steps during your reading block or as Use these Leveled Readers as you work through the chapter. LEVELED center activities. READER • Below Level: Land and Water: How Geography Affects Our 3 Communities • On Level: Using Natural Resources • Above Level: Landforms and Waterways 2 ESS15_TE04_IN_C01_OP.indd 2 31/01/15 2:33 AM WORKTEXT Active Reading page 1 Lesson 1 Land and Water Indiana’s Geography Lesson 2 Regions and Resources Lesson 3 Indiana Connections Chapter 1 How does geography affect the way we live? T.C. Steele Describe how the land or outdoor weather in Indiana affects your daily Landscape Painter (1847–1926) activities. Possible answer: I live near Lake Michigan. In the Indiana’s rolling hills, peaceful forests, and bright autumn colors inspired many, but especially an artist winter, I wear a snowsuit and boots when the snow is named Theodore Clement (T.C.) Steele. Born in the deep. In the summer, my favorite activity is to take a Indiana countryside in 1847, Steele learned to paint from a young age. By 13, he taught fellow students how to boat ride on the lake. draw at a college prep school. [PHOTO: Image of Steele studied how to make portraits, or pictures of Theodore Clement people. He made his living painting portraits. But his Steele] true love was painting Indiana’s landscapes, or scenes from nature. These paintings made him one of the most famous artists in the state. In the early 1900s, Steele and his second wife settled in Brown County. This is a beautiful region south of Indianapolis. They built a house on the top of a hill and T.C. Steele was one of named it “The House of the Singing Winds.” He was the first the most famous artists in the state. major artist to settle there. Today, visitors can tour Steele’s Indiana’s land has inspired house and gardens and view the land that inspired him. artists such as T.C. Steele, who The natural beauty of the landscape soon attracted painted landscapes of the other artists. This group of artists became known as the countryside like this one. Hoosier Group of American regional impressionist painters. Their art became one of Indiana’s greatest contributions to American art history. Think About It What does T.C. Steele’s story tell you about the landscape of Indiana? As you read this chapter, think about how the geography of a place affects the people who live there. 1 ESS14_SE04_IN_C01_OP.indd 2 16/01/15 12:42 AMESS14_SE04_IN_C01_OP.indd 1 16/01/15 12:42 AM The Big Question T.C. Steele • ANALYZE IMAGES How do you think physical features, such as the • MAKE COMPARISONS How did the way T.C. Steele made his living forest and field shown in the picture, might affect the activities at first differ from what he really loved to do? He at first made of people who live nearby? Possible answer: The people who his living painting portraits, but his true love was painting live nearby might have jobs in farming. They might use the Indiana’s landscapes. forests for hiking or camping. • DRAW INFERENCES How did the geography of Indiana affect the life of T.C. Steele? Possible answer: He moved to Brown County and built a house there so he could paint the beautiful landscape. myStory Spark • FORMULATE QUESTIONS What question might you have for T.C. • What kinds of activities can you do because of the geography of Steele about his life or about Indiana? Possible answer: Why where you live? Which activities are you unable to do because of did you name your house in Brown County the “House of the geography of where you live? Answers will vary. the Singing Winds”? 3 ESS15_TE04_IN_C01_OP.indd 3 31/01/15 2:33 AM Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Land and Water Lesson Plan Summary IN Indiana Indiana Academic Standards Target Reading Skill 4.3.3 Locate Indiana on a map, and 4.3.6 Describe Indiana’s landforms Objective: identify the location of the state (lithosphere), water features • Identify main idea and capital, major cities, and rivers. (hydrosphere), and plants and animals details. 4.3.5 Explain how glaciers shaped (biosphere). Indiana’s landscape and environment. ELL Objective: • Use new vocabulary to talk about landforms and geographic features of Indiana. myWorld and me 15 minutes Remind students of the discussion they had about the Big Question 1 WORKTEXT for this chapter: How does geography affect the way we live? Not enough time Envision It! • How does geography affect life in your community? for social studies? Review the instructions for the Envision It! with students, and have Teach this step during them complete the activity. your reading block or Preview the Key Idea and Vocabulary with students. as a center activity. • What landforms are in the region where you live? Model active reading by asking the questions and using the teaching strategies indicated below this lesson’s worktext pages. 45 minutes 2 WORKTEXT Active Reading Ask students to complete the Got It? activity at the end of the lesson to evaluate their understanding of the key objectives in this lesson. 10 minutes 3 WORKTEXT Got It? 4 ESS15_TE04_IN_C01_L01.indd 4 2/8/15 12:52 AM WORKTEXT Active Reading pages 2–3 NLOCK U Lesson 1 Students should draw a I will know Indiana’s Hill location, that glaciers shaped landform or body of water the land, and the unique Land landforms and water features in near where they live, such the state. and as a river. Water Vocabulary Lake Possible answer: River glacier hydrologic cycle landform evaporation Indiana includes many varied landforms, or natural Label the landform and body of water on the left. In the lithosphere precipitation features, and bodies of water. box above, draw a picture of a landform or body of hydrosphere biosphere water where you live, and write its name on the line. IN Indiana Academic Standards Indiana is one of the 50 states that make up the United States. Indiana’s Landscape 4.3.3 Locate Indiana on a map, The state is known for its beautiful and varied landscapes. These Long ago, ice and snow covered many parts of North and identify the location of the state capital, major cities, and rivers. include flat plains, grassy hills, sandy beaches, winding rivers, America, including Indiana. This period of time is called 4.3.5 Explain how glaciers shaped and large caves. the Ice Age. During the Ice Age, glaciers moved from north Indiana’s landscape and environment. 4.3.6 Describe Indiana’s landforms to south. A glacier is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly (lithosphere), water features Indiana’s Location across the land. (hydrosphere), and plants and animals Indiana (biosphere). Indiana is located on the continent of North America. These glaciers helped shape the landscape and Lake It is near the center of the United States and is part of Michigan MI environment of Indiana. For nearly 400,000 years, glaciers the Midwest region. Several states border Indiana. To the South Bend covered the northern two thirds of Indiana. As the glaciers Gary west is Illinois.