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Living With the Land is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how a nation's settlements used local resources, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Geo.8.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Living With the Land

D2.Geo.8.3-5

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Read each information text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the information text, then answer the questions.

The Lakota and the Great Plains

An information text written for this worksheet. The Lakota are one of the nations of the Great Plains, a wide grassland in the middle of North America. After horses arrived on the Plains in the 1700s, many Lakota bands followed the great herds of bison across the grasslands. The bison gave them almost everything they needed: meat for food, hides for clothing and for the covers of their tipis, and bones for tools. A tipi could be taken down and packed in a short time, so a whole camp could move with the herds. In winter, camps stayed in sheltered river valleys, out of the wind. In the late 1800s, hunters from the United States killed millions of bison, and the Lakota lost much of their land. Today the Lakota have their own governments, and many live on reservations in South Dakota and North Dakota.

  1. 1. Why did camps stay in river valleys in winter?
  2. 2. Why was a tipi a good home for people who moved often?
  3. 3. Why did many Lakota bands move across the grasslands?
2.Read the information text, then answer the questions.

The Haudenosaunee and the Eastern Forests

An information text written for this worksheet. The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy is made up of six nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. Their homelands are in the forests and river valleys of what is now New York State. In the past, families lived in longhouses built from wooden poles covered with elm bark. Many families, related through their mothers, shared one longhouse. Women farmed corn, beans and squash together in the same fields. The Haudenosaunee call these crops the Three Sisters. Men hunted deer in the forests and fished in the rivers and lakes. Villages moved every ten to twenty years, when the soil and the firewood nearby were used up. Today the Haudenosaunee nations have their own governments and communities in New York, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Canada.

  1. 1. Why did villages move every ten to twenty years?
  2. 2. What were longhouses covered with?
  3. 3. Who hunted deer and fished in the rivers?

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Answer key — Living With the Land

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The valleys were sheltered, out of the wind. 2. It could be taken down and packed in a short time. 3. To follow the great herds of bison.
  2. 2.1. The soil and the firewood nearby were used up. 2. Elm bark over wooden poles. 3. The men.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.8.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.