Geography 4th/5th: Indicator #7

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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 # 7
Explain how people in Maryland and the United States are linked by transportation and communication.

Steamboats in America
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_History/USH0204.html
 

A lesson plan from Encarta that helps students to directly compare automobile transportation in the 1950's (without the interstate highway system) and now via a cross country trip
http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=1360
   

In this lesson, children will identify differing modes of transportation and communication for moving products and people from place to place http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g35/ontheroad.html

A teaching resource (pictures) from the Library of Congress on transportation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html

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