Geography 6th-8th: Indicator #3


Geography: 6th – 8th

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 United States history through 1877, world history through the Middle Ages, and in contemporary world geography, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

Indicator #3
Analyze geographic characteristics that influence the location of human activities in world regions.

For clarification of this indicator, go to:
http://www.mdk12.org/practices/support_success/mspap/learneroutcomes/social_studies/6-8/clarifications3.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

How does environment shape culture and human experience? is the key question asked in the lesson, South Africa Story: Apartheid, Diamonds & Gold.

http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/origlessons/southafrica/

 

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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