The Southeast

The warm, rich land: farming towns, rivers, and trade, including Georgia.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 22

The Southeast: warm and wet, with rich soil, rivers, forests, and swamps.
The Southeast, including Georgia, has a long, warm growing season. People farmed corn, beans, and squash, hunted deer, fished the rivers, and gathered nuts and berries.
They built houses of woven branches covered with clay, called wattle and daub, with roofs of grass or bark. Towns were built around a plaza and a council house, where leaders met.
You may remember the Cherokee and Muscogee from Grade 2! Long before them, people in Georgia built great earth mounds, like the Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon.
Try it with a grown-up: visit or look up the Ocmulgee Mounds, Kolomoki Mounds, or New Echota, and find them on a map of Georgia.
Nations of the Southeast include the Cherokee, the Muscogee (Creek), and the Seminole. They are still here today, keeping their languages and traditions alive.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS3H1.a — Locate the regions where American Indians settled in North America: Arctic, Northwest Southwest, Plains, Northeast, and Southeast.
SS3H1.b — Compare and contrast how American Indians in each region used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.