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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 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. When do salmon swim up the rivers?
  2. 2. Why did the Tlingit travel by canoe?
  3. 3. Why did Tlingit families dry salmon in summer?
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 does the last sentence tell you about the Haudenosaunee today?
  3. 3. How many nations make up the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?

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Answer key — Living With the Land

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  1. 1.1. Every summer. 2. They lived along the coast and islands, so canoes let them travel by sea. 3. To eat the salmon through the winter.
  2. 2.1. The soil and the firewood nearby were used up. 2. The nations still exist, with their own governments and communities. 3. Six nations.

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