Adopt a lot

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Students identify a place in the community that needs to be improved and develop a plan to renew the area.

Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
- Objective 1.01: Create maps, charts, graphs, databases, and models as tools to illustrate information about different people, places and regions in South America and Europe.
- Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes,charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
- Objective 1.03: Use tools such as maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases, models, and artifacts to compare data on different countries of South America and Europe and to identify patterns as well as similarities and differences among them.

Goal 1: The learner will use language to express individual perspectives drawn from personal or related experience.
- Objective 1.03: Interact appropriately in group settings by:
  - listening attentively.
  - showing empathy.
  - contributing relevant comments connecting personal experiences to content.
  - monitoring own understanding of the discussion and seeking clarification as needed.
Goal 2: The learner will explore and analyze information from a variety of sources.
- Objective 2.02: Use multiple sources of print and non-print information in developing informational materials such as brochures, newsletters, and infomercials by:
  - exploring a variety of sources from which information may be attained (e.g., books, Internet, electronic databases, CD-ROM).
  - distinguishing between primary and secondary sources.
  - analyzing the effects of the presentation and/or accuracy of information.
Goal 3: The learner will examine the foundations of argument.
- Objective 3.02: Explore the problem solution process by:
  - studying examples (in literature and other text) that present problems coherently, describe the solution clearly, sequence reasons to support the solution, and show awareness of audience.
  - preparing individual and/or group essays and presentations that focus on the diagnosis of a problem and possible solutions.