Directions and teacher notes for USI.5b
• Copy the templates front to back, so that the title page/map matches the graphic
organizers for each colony. Each student will need 3 front to back copied pages, with
each copied page making a half-book about one colonial region.
• Students fold each copied page in half, hamburger fold, to create half books about
each colony.
• Have student shade in and label the colonies that were part of each region on the
map.
• Have students complete the questions posed in the graphic organizers.
• Direct students to draw illustrations about life in each colony in the two drawing
boxes, adding non-linguistic representations for some of the information about each
regional colony group.
Front view of each half-book:
Inside view of each halfbook:
Answer key: Taken from the 2008 Curriculum Framework, page 13
Essential Knowledge
Colonies
Resources
Geography and Climate
Specialization
Examples of Interdependence
Social/Political
Fishing,
shipbuilding,
naval supplies,
metal tools and
equipment
The colonies depended on the Southern colonies
for crops such as tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo,
and for forest products such as lumber, tar, and
pitch. They depended on the Mid-Atlantic colonies
for livestock and grains.
Villages and churches were
centers of life. Religious
reformers and separatists
Civic life: town meetings
Villages and cities, varied
and diverse lifestyles,
diverse religions
Civic life: market towns
Plantations (slavery),
mansions, indentured
servants, fewer cities,
fewer schools, Church of
England
Civic life: counties
Natural resources:
timber, fish, deep harbors
Human resources:, skilled craftsmen,
shopkeepers, shipbuilders
Capital resources: tools, buildings
Appalachian Mountains,
harbor, hilly terrain, rocky
soil, jagged coastline
Moderate summers, cold
winters
MidAtlantic
Natural Resources: rich farmlands,
rivers
Human resources: unskilled workers,
skilled workers, fishermen
Capital resources: tools, buildings
Appalachian Mountains
coastal lowlands, harbors and
bays
Mild winters and moderate
climate, wide and deep rivers
Livestock,
grains, fish
The Mid-Atlantic colonies traded with the Southern
and New colonies to get the products they did not
produce. The Mid-Atlantic colonies depended on
the Southern colonies for tobacco, rice, cotton,
indigo, and forest products. They traded with the
colonies for metal tools and equipment.
Southern
Natural resources: fertile farmlands,
rivers, harbors
Human resources: farmers, enslaved
African Americans
Capital resources: tools, buildings
Appalachian Mountains, ,
Atlantic Coastal Plain, good
harbors and rivers
Humid climate with mild
winters and hot summers
Tobacco, rice,
cotton, indigo,
forest products
(lumber, tar,
pitch)
The Southern colonies depended on the colonies
for manufactured goods, including metal tools and
equipment. They depended on the Mid-Atlantic
colonies for grains and other agricultural products
not plentiful in the South.
The New England
Colonies
USI.5a
Describing life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and
Southern colonies, with emphasis on how people
interacted with their environment to produce goods and
services, including examples of specialization and
interdependence.
©Fairfax County Public Schools,
Template by Susie Orr. Map source: © Fairfax County Public Schools.
Name: ____________________
Drawing:
Resources
Natural Resources: Capital
1.___________
timber
Resources:
2.___________
1.___________
tools
fish
3.___________
2.___________
deep harbors
buildings
Human Resources:
1.___________
skilled craftsmen
Drawing:
shopkeepers
2.___________
shipbuilders
3.___________
Appalachian Mountains, harbor
Geography:__________________________
____________________________________
hilly terrain, rocky soil, jagged coastline
____________________________________
Climate:
____________________________________
Moderate summers, cold winters
____________________________________
Specialization:
1._____________
2_____________
shipbuilding
fishing
naval
supplies
3._____________ 4._____________
metal tools
5.____________________________
equipment
Examples of interdependence:
The New England colonies depended on
the Southern colonies for:
crops such as tobacco, rice, cotton
__________________________________
__________________________________
and indigo, forest products such as lumbar,
__________________________________
tar, and pitch.
The New England colonies depended on
the Mid-Atlantic colonies for:
__________________________________
livestock and grains
__________________________________
Social/Political
Describe life in the New England colonies:
Villages and churches were centers of life.
_______________________________
_______________________________
Religious reformers and separatists.
_______________________________
Describe the civic life:
_______________________________
Town meetings
The Mid‐Atlantic
Colonies
USI.5a
Describing life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and
Southern colonies, with emphasis on how people
interacted with their environment to produce goods and
services, including examples of specialization and
interdependence.
©Fairfax County Public Schools,
Template by Susie Orr. Map source: ©Fairfax County Public Schools.
Name: ____________________
Drawing:
Resources
Natural Resources: Capital
rich farmlands
1.___________
Resources:
2.___________
1.___________
tools
rivers
2.___________
buildings
Human Resources:
unskilled workers
1.___________
Drawing:
2.___________
skilled workers
3.___________
fishermen
Appalachian Mountains, Coastal lowlands
Geography:__________________________
harbors and bays.
____________________________________
____________________________________
Climate:
____________________________________
Mild winters and moderate climate, wide deep rivers
____________________________________
Specialization:
1._______________________
livestock
grains
2._______________________
3._______________________
fish
Examples of interdependence:
The Mid-Atlantic colonies traded with the
New England and Southern colonies to:
get the products they did not produce.
__________________________________
__________________________________
The Mid- Atlantic colonies depended on
the Southern colonies for:
__________________________________
tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo, and forest products
__________________________________
The Mid- Atlantic colonies depended on
the New England colonies for:
__________________________________
metal tools and equipment
__________________________________
Social/Political
Describe life in the Mid-Atlantic colonies:
Villages and cities, varied and diverse lifestyles,
_______________________________
diverse religions.
_______________________________
_______________________________
Describe the civic life:
_______________________________
market towns
The Southern
Colonies
USI.5a
Describing life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and
Southern colonies, with emphasis on how people
interacted with their environment to produce goods and
services, including examples of specialization and
interdependence.
©Fairfax County Public Schools,
Template by Susie Orr. Map source:©Fairfax County Public Schools.
Name: ____________________
Drawing:
Resources
Natural Resources:
1.___________
fertile farmlands
2.___________
rivers
3.___________
harbors
4.___________
============
Human Resources:
1.___________
farmers
2.___________
enslaved African
Americans
_______________
Capital
Resources:
tools
1.___________
2.___________
buildings
Drawing:
Geography:__________________________
Appalachian Mountains, Atlantic Coastal
____________________________________
Plain, good harbors and rivers.
____________________________________
Climate:
Humid climate with mild winters and hot
____________________________________
____________________________________
summers.
Specialization:
tobacco
1._____________
2_____________
rice
3._____________
4._____________
cotton
indigo
5._______________________________________
forest products (lumber, tar, and pitch)
Examples of interdependence:
The Southern colonies depended on the
New England colonies for:
manufactured goods including metal tools and
__________________________________
__________________________________
equipment.
__________________________________
The Southern colonies depended on the
Mid-Atlantic colonies for:
__________________________________
grains and other agricultural products not plentiful
__________________________________
in the South.
Social/Political
Describe life in the Southern colonies:
_______________________________
Plantations (slavery), mansions, indentured servants,
_______________________________
fewer schools, Church of England.
_______________________________
Describe the civic life:
_______________________________
counties