Many Faces, Many Places

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Many Faces, Many Places
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• Get ready to go on a trip through Texas! Over
  the next six weeks you can learn about
  interactions between people and Texas landforms
  and rocks and minerals. Native Americans , the
  early explorers, and the illnesses and diseases
  the explorers brought to Texas are studied.

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• You can take a closer look at the core, mantle,
  and crust of the Earth during this unit.

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• Are you ready to be a geologist? You work to
  explore rocks and minerals while discovering the
  physical properties, weight, mass, volume, and
  density of rocks.

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• Next, you can focus on the four landform regions
  of Texas and discover many interesting facts
  about these regions.

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• As we continue on our trip through Texas, you can
  learn about the first Texans, the Native
  Americans, who lived in Texas before 1500 as well
  as the early explorers of Texas.

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• As our trip ends, you can look at the impact of
  the diseases explorers brought to Texas with the
  native people living in Texas.

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• Your trip through Texas will be fascinating, and
  we hope you are ready!

Texas or Bust!
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Guiding Questions

• How do the physical characteristics of the
  geographical regions affect the lives of the
  people of the past and present?
• How would you describe the rock cycle and the
  formation of the different types of rocks? How
  do minerals impact peoples lives?
• Explain the relationship of the push-pull
  theory to exploration.
• How would you compare communicable and
  noncommunicable diseases? Why did communicable
  diseases become a problem during the era of
  exploration?