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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. How did horses change Lakota life?
  2. 2. Why did Lakota life become much harder in the late 1800s?
  3. 3. Why did camps stay in river valleys in winter?
2.Read the information text, then answer the questions.

The Cherokee and the Southern Mountains

An information text written for this worksheet. The Cherokee homelands were in the mountains and river valleys of the Southeast, in parts of what are now Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and nearby states. The land had rich soil, warm summers and plenty of rain. Cherokee families lived in towns beside rivers and farmed corn, beans and squash in the fertile river valleys. They hunted deer in the forests and gathered nuts and berries. In the early 1820s, a Cherokee man named Sequoyah created a writing system for the Cherokee language, and soon many Cherokee could read and write it. In 1838 and 1839, the United States government forced most Cherokee people from their homelands to land in what is now Oklahoma. Thousands died on the journey, now called the Trail of Tears. Today the Cherokee Nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band each have their own government.

  1. 1. Why did most Cherokee people leave their homelands in 1838 and 1839?
  2. 2. Name two things Cherokee people gathered.
  3. 3. Why did Cherokee families farm in the river valleys?

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Answer key — Living With the Land

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  1. 1.1. With horses, bands could follow the bison herds across the wide grassland. 2. Hunters from the United States killed millions of bison, and the Lakota lost much of their land. 3. The valleys were sheltered, out of the wind.
  2. 2.1. The United States government forced them to leave. 2. Nuts and berries. 3. The river valleys were fertile, with rich soil and plenty of rain.

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