Recall and connect California's four regions to the Native nations and lifeways studied this unit.
This week ties together everything from the first unit. You have learned California's four regions, its major rivers and cities, how climate shapes crops, and how over 100 Native nations built distinct lifeways matched to their own stretch of this varied land -- from Chumash tomols to Miwok acorn granaries to trade networks moving obsidian and shell beads across the whole state.
The big idea underneath all of it: geography and human life are connected. Where people lived shaped what they ate, how they traveled, what they built, and who they traded with -- a pattern worth watching for again as California's history keeps unfolding in the units ahead.
Mastery looks like: They can name the four regions, connect at least one Native nation to its region and lifeway, and explain that geography shaped how people lived.
Common stumbles: Remembering isolated facts without connecting them; forgetting that many different nations, not one, lived across California.