Ancient Civilizations Sub Plan (No Prep): River Valley City Builder, Grades 5-8

Your students are city planners in the Zerash Valley, a made-up river valley with a flood plain, a marsh, a desert edge and a flood calendar (months 1 to 4 the river floods, 5 to 8 crops grow, 9 to 12 is low water). They read the grid map, then follow four builder's rules to place a city on a dry rise beside rocky hills, a granary the flood never reaches, a two-square canal and four farm fields. Then they defend the plan with four questions that use the map and the flood calendar, including why houses do not belong on the flood plain.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a suggested 30-point grading guide
• 6 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no atlas, no scissors.

Answer key included

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