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Students in this class will learn nearly all of the C3 State Standards for Social Studies in this age group. Lesson in this class are highly interactive and hands-on, meant to ignite students' excitement for Geography and the world around them. Though the class may vary on how quickly we get through each lesson, an approximate outline is listed below. Geography isn't just about where a person lives. It is how and why a person lives there and what is the person's culture like because of it. This Geography class identifies all of these areas. Week One: THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY: describe where they live using the 5 themes of geography MAPS: construct a map of their neighborhood construct a map of a fictional island using landform find the distance between two points using a map scale complete a scavenger hunt on Google Earth for Carmen San Diego Week Two: CULTURE: connect their culture and the foods they eat after watching a video about the Northwest Native People's connection to Salmon identify the effects of immigration on America's culture take on the role of a real life American immigrant and share that immigrant's story Week Three: SPATIAL PATTERNS AND MOVEMENT: create a concept map on the effects of the Erie Canal discover how geography and international events both played a role in America's Westward Expansion in the 1800s GLOBAL INTERCONNECTIONS: watch a video on the 1930s drought and consider its effects worldwide complete a report on a country outside of North America find connections between the country they researched and the countries their classmates researched .
Metas de aprendizaje
D2.Geo.10.3-5. Explain why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions.
D2.Geo.11.3-5. Describe how the spatial patterns of economic activities in a place change over time because of interactions with nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.12.3-5. Explain how natural and human-made catastrophic events in one place affect people living in other places.
D2.Geo.7.3-5. Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.
D2.Geo.8.3-5. Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
D2.Geo.9.3-5. Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.
D2.Geo.4.3-5. Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.
D2.Geo.5.3-5. Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.
D2.Geo.6.3-5. Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.
D2.Geo.1.3-5. Construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places.
D2.Geo.2.3-5. Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.3.3-5. Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.
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Lista de útiles escolares
Folder with paper or notebook Pencil Crayons/colored pencils (for the map of the Island) Optional: Students may want to use a larger piece of paper for their island
Recursos externos
Los estudiantes no necesitarán utilizar ninguna aplicación o sitio web más allá de las herramientas estándar de Outschool.
Fuentes
Lesson are based off of primary sources accessed through the Smithsonian Learning Lab
The learning goals, which guide this course, are taken from the The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History which is written based off of feedback from:
American Bar Association
American Historical Association
Association of American Geographers
Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
Center for Civic Education
Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
Constitutional Rights Foundation USA
Council for Economic Education
National Council for Geographic Education
National Council for History Education
National Council for the Social Studies
National Geographic Society
National History Day
Street Law, Inc.
World History Association
Reseñas
Clase grupal
70 US$
por 8 clases2 x por semana, 4 semanas
40 min
Completado por 20 alumnos
Videoconferencias en vivo
Edades: 8-11
3-12 alumnos por clase