Lesson 2: 1.2- Places, Regions and People
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to distinguish among the different types of maps (i.e., political, physical, and thematic).
Students will be able to define the word region and explain how grouping information regionally helps geographers understand patterns.
Students will be able to develop mental maps to understand the location of world regions and important physical features.
How do geographers use maps to answer questions and solve problems?
genocide, population density, ecosystem, geyser, highland, humid continental, key, current, coniferous forest, mental map, habitat, aquifer, birth rate, mountain range, marsh, Arctic, bilingual, Gulf Stream, place, mudslide, precipitation, culture, North Atlantic Current, infant mortality rate, cultural region, steppe, Demilitarized Zone, prairie, region, tropical rain forest, Coriolis effect, plain, monsoon, hurricane, physical map, tropical and subtropical (wet and dry), bay, Cold War, desert scrub, desertification, elevation, continent, marine west, deciduous forest, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), climate region, desert, volcano, landform, Warsaw Pact, vegetation, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), plateau, political map, map, hot spring, Holocaust, fault, population pyramid, language family, nation, population distribution, tornado, legend, isthmus, hemisphere, delta, continental drift, boreal forest, death rate, natural disaster, glacier, climate, thematic map, biome, population
GEO 6-7.1 - Construct maps to represent and explain the pattern of cultural and environmental characteristics in our world.
GEO 6-7.4 - Analyze the cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from one another.
GEO 6-7.9 - Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
Implementing instructional content for learning. DOK 2 Conceptual Thinking
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
The Reading Passages—Take a Map!, Fighting Crime with Maps, and Little Ethiopia—contain constructed response questions that provide students opportunities to write short evidence-based responses to a text.
The Social Studies Explanation asks students to collect evidence from varied sources to support an answer to the concept’s Essential Question. The activity provides the foundation and scaffolding for a more complex written answer.
Students will have a series of guided notes, a review section and finally an open-note quiz on the material of this section.
Google Classroom, Chromebook