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Southwest Wonders!

From City Island · 2026

Southwest Wonders!
2 minK1st2nd3rdSocial Studies
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Summary

The Southwest tour takes in desert landscapes, long histories, and the clever ways people have made a home there. Environment and human ingenuity in the same two minutes. A strong regional-geography snapshot.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Three quick questions to run after the short.

  1. What was the land like in the Southwest?
  2. How have people adapted to living there?
  3. How does the land where we live shape what we do?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: desert, Southwest, adapt.

Try it: Draw the Southwest landscape and write one way people live with it.