Title: Lesson 5: Human Settlement Factors - Learn with Kassia
Headings: LESSON 5: HUMAN SETTLEMENT FACTORS
LESSON 5: HUMAN SETTLEMENT FACTORS
Geography in Action:
Human Settlement Factors:
Action Item: Group Skit "Leaving Home"

Content: Elf Church Disrupts Building
There are many reasons why humans make the choices they do about building settlements. Factors include: Physical Features
Body of water (transportation routes, water for drinking and farming)
Flat land (easy to build)
Fertile soil (for crops)
Forests (timber and housing)
Human Factors
people who share a common language, religion or culture
social network or supports
quality of life
employment
Human Settlement Factors: There are many reasons why humans make the choices they do about building settlements. Factors include: Physical Features
Body of water (transportation routes, water for drinking and farming)
Flat land (easy to build)
Fertile soil (for crops)
Forests (timber and housing)

Human Factors
people who share a common language, religion or culture
social network or supports
quality of life
employment

Factors can be push or pull. Push factors encourage a family to emigrate (pushes them to leave a location). Pull factors encourage a family to immigrate (pulls them in to move to a location). Action Item: Group Skit "Leaving Home"
In small groups, you will plan and perform a short skit (1 minute maximum) that shows a family discussing the reasons to leave their homeland and move to a new place.