Geography 4th/5th: Indicator #3

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Geography: Fourth and Fifth

Students will use geographic concepts and processes to examine the role of culture, technology, and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities and spatial connections throughout time.

In the context of Maryland up to contemporary times and United States history through 1790, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

Indicator # 3
Describe the relationship between physical characteristics of a place and the location of human activities.

A lesson plan that explores Antarctica as a region and as a cold desert area http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/antarctica.html

Beginning activities using the geography of pizza to understand the relationships of geography and human activities http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/03/g35/pizza.html

An exemplar lesson plan from MSDE that includes this indicator is:
http://www.mdk12.org/practices/support_success/mspap/exemplars/social_studies/4-5/imported/index.html
 

An educators' guide that uses a host of Internet based materials (including quick movies and Internet accessed videos) for teaching about the impact of geography on coastal communities. These are not specific lesson plans; you, as the teacher, will have to create the lessons. http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/lessons/coast/educator/index.html
 

A lesson plan that uses the concept of interdependence and geography to investigate how petroleum transformed the world and helped us to overcome geography: http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=560
 

A lesson plan entitled, Why are Cities where they are?
http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=559

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