3- Geography

SS:GE:2 Places and Regions

Essential Question:

How do the land and the people together shape what a place is like?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Adaptive Perseverance: Keep exploring even if understanding new places is challenging.

Learner’s Mindset: Stay curious about how people and nature interact.

Communication: Share ideas about places and how they are shaped.

Responsibility: Respect different environments and people’s ways of living.

Global Citizenship: See how people around the world adapt to their environments.

Critical Thinking: Think about how land and human choices together make a place what it is.

Collaboration: Work with classmates to create maps or models of different places.

Inquiry Question:

What are some physical features (like mountains, rivers, or plains) of different places?

2. Inquiry Question:

How do people change or adapt to the places where they live?

3. Inquiry Question:

How do things like landforms and where people live together make each place unique?

Student Outcomes:

Students can describe landforms and human features (like buildings, farms, or roads) of a place.

2. Student Outcomes:

Students can explain how people and the environment affect each other.

3. Student Outcomes:

Students can compare different places using both human and physical characteristics.

Skills Demonstrated:

Standard:

SS:GE:4:2.1: Describe the physical and human characteristics of places, e.g., land forms or where people live.

SS:GE:4:2.2: Recognize how physical and human processes together shape places, e.g., the relationship between elevation and population density in a region or the characteristics of regions along the same latitude.

Resources:

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