SOCIAL STUDIES

WHAT IS A STATE

• Geographers study small places
• like communities and big places
• like states and countries

MICHIGAN AND THEME OF LOCATION

• The absoulte location of place is
• exact location of the places Your
• address is the absolute location
• The relative location of a place means
• where the place is relation to other places

MICHIGAN NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Natural{ physical} chararistics include
• landforms,bodies of water, vegetation
• and climate

MICHIGAN

• Forest and Orchards are important types
• of vegetation in Michigan
• Michigans climate has four seasons and
• is influenced by the Great Lakes

MICHIGAN HUMAN'S CHARACTERISTICS

• Human characteristics are often connected to
• natural [physical] characteristics
• for example, people often bulid bridges
• across rivers, and cities next to rivers.

MICHIGAN

• Imortant natural resources of
• Michigan include trees, fertile soil
• the Great Lakes other bodies
• of water and minerals Its important
• for people to use natural resources wisely

MICHIGAN AND THEME

• People modified the environment
• of Michigan by polluting the
• Great Lakes and rivers

MICHIGAN

• Michigan belongs to U.S region such
• as the Midwest Region and the
• Great Lakes Region

USING RESOURCES

• An enterpreneur is someone who
• combines the natural, human
• and capital reasources to produce
• goods or services

SCARCITY, CHOICE

• Scarcity results because resources
• are limited and human wants are
• unlimited.

MICHIGAN ECONOMY TODAY

• Imortant economic activities of
• Michigan include manufacturing
• agriculture, mining and tourism

SPECIALIZATION

• Independent they come
• Michigan exports goods like cars
• to other places. Michigan imports
• goods like computers and bananas
• from other places

MICHIGAN ECONMIC FUTURE

• It will entrepreneurs new ideas and
• the goods use of resources to help
• Michigan economy grow in the future

THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

• The state government provides public
• goods and services such as state parks
• highways and states police. To pay for these
• public goods and services the state government
• collects money from taxs and fines

AMERICAN INDIANS IN MICHIGAN

• The very Native Americans in Michigan
• lived in Michigan long, long ago. They
• left behind artifacts like spear points and
• arrowheads

STORIES OF MICHIGAN INDIANS

• Stories were used to teach
• lessons, to explain things and
• to pass along history

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• The French and American Indians
• interacted in many ways. For example
• they tradedwith each other, they
• sometimes married each other, and
• they learned from each other

THE BRITISH IN MICHIGAN

• Competition for the fur trade
• led to a war between France and
• Britain.

MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT

• Pioneers coming to Michigan in
• the early 1800's had many challenges
• to overcome

BECOMING A STATE

• Steamboats and the Erie Canal
• caused more people to move and settle
• in Michiga. Soon, Michigan.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

• One very important
• economic activity was
• farming

ECONOMIC GROWTH

• Lumbering made use of
• Michigan's forests and
• rivers.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

• Mining made use of Michigan
• minerals like copper and iron
• ore.

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