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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 many Lakota bands move across the grasslands?
  2. 2. Why did camps stay in river valleys in winter?
  3. 3. What arrived on the Plains in the 1700s?
2.Read the information text, then answer the questions.

The Tlingit and the Northwest Coast

An information text written for this worksheet. The Tlingit live along the coast and islands of southeastern Alaska, where thick forests of cedar and spruce grow beside the sea. Rain falls often, and the ocean and rivers are full of fish. Every summer, salmon swim up the rivers to lay their eggs. Tlingit families have long caught and dried salmon to eat through the winter. Because the forests had huge, straight trees, the Tlingit built large plank houses of wood, where several related families lived. They carved canoes from single logs to travel the coast. Totem poles carved from cedar tell the histories of families and clans. Today many Tlingit communities have their own tribal governments.

  1. 1. Why did the Tlingit travel by canoe?
  2. 2. Why did Tlingit families dry salmon in summer?
  3. 3. When do salmon swim up the rivers?

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Answer key — Living With the Land

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  1. 1.1. To follow the great herds of bison. 2. The valleys were sheltered, out of the wind. 3. Horses.
  2. 2.1. They lived along the coast and islands, so canoes let them travel by sea. 2. To eat the salmon through the winter. 3. Every summer.

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