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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 11

Land & People

How people adapt to and change the land

What your child practices

Landforms, climate, resources and natural hazards, how people in deserts, forests, plains and wetlands adapt to or change their surroundings, and the effects of building, conservation and pollution, with Texas regions.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.3(A); 3.3(B); 3.3(C) · differences in physical environments, how communities adapt to or change them, and how human activity shapes the land

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Landforms, climate and resources shape how people live.
  2. People adapt, like using air conditioning in hot places, or change the land, like building dams.
  3. Towns often start near rivers for water and travel.

Example: Why did many towns start near rivers? People need water. Boats on rivers moved people and goods. Answer: rivers gave water and a way to move goods

Land & People in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 11 in 3rd grade Social Studies, after Maps, Scale & Grids and before Rules, Laws & Government.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why do people build bridges?

    • To stop rain
    • To cross rivers and bays
    • To grow food
    • To make rivers bigger

  2. Question 2

    Which tool shows the land's shape: hills, valleys and mountains?

    • a physical map
    • a calendar
    • a bus schedule
    • a menu

  3. Question 3

    Wetlands along the Texas coast are home to many…

    • birds and fish
    • polar bears
    • penguins
    • camels

  4. Question 4

    Many Texas cities build reservoirs to store water because Texas sometimes has…

    • no rivers at all
    • droughts
    • blizzards all year
    • too many glaciers

  5. Question 5

    A graph shows a town's population grew from 2,000 to 20,000. The town has…

    • shrunk
    • stayed the same
    • disappeared
    • grown much bigger

  6. Question 6

    People in a valley built canals to bring water to crops. They…

    • changed the land to meet their needs
    • stopped farming
    • left the land as it was
    • moved to the desert

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