Colonial Regions Venn Diagram

5th Grade Social StudiesAmerican History3 pages

About this worksheet

New England and the Southern Colonies go side by side in this 5th grade social studies Venn diagram. Students read nine lettered features, from rocky soil and long, cold winters to large plantations worked by enslaved people. They write each letter in the New England circle, the Southern circle, or the shared middle. Three features belong to each region alone and three to both. The 3-page sheet connects to C3 Framework indicators D2.Geo.10.3-5 and D2.Geo.8.3-5, and the answer key lists the letters for every section.

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Colonial Regions Venn Diagram: American History - page 1

Colonial Regions Venn Diagram: American History - page 2

Colonial Regions Venn Diagram: American History - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Geo.10.3-5

“Explain why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions.”

Features A and G set rocky soil and cold winters against a long, warm growing season, so students see why the two regions differed.

D2.Geo.8.3-5

“Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.”

Letters D, B, and F tie how colonists earned a living (fishing and shipbuilding, rice and tobacco plantations) to the land and climate around them.

What's inside this worksheet

New England vs. Southern Colonies

Students read features A to I in a table. The list includes shipbuilding and fishing, cash crops like tobacco and rice, town meetings with religious rules, and trade across the Atlantic Ocean.

Venn Diagram

Two overlapping circles are labeled New England Colonies and Southern Colonies. Students write each letter in one circle, or in the middle for features both regions shared, such as rule by the English king and Parliament.

How teachers use it

After a climate lesson

Teach this once students know about soil and growing seasons. Those who understand why New England soil was rocky place A and D together without help.

Discussion prompt

Letter I, relying on farming to survive, belongs in the middle. Expect pushback from students who think only the South farmed, and use it to talk about small New England family farms.

Middle Colonies extension

Once the sort is done, ask where the Middle Colonies would fit. Students can draw a third circle on the back and decide which letters it shares.

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