Geography and your dream job
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/18/g68/careers.html
A lesson plan for grades 6–7 Social Studies
This lesson introduces students to the five themes of geography. Students then apply the geographical concepts in these themes to some National Geographic websites and to their own dream jobs, demonstrating ways that they could use their geographical skills and knowledge in these jobs. This lesson is located on National Geographic’s Xpeditions website.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 6
- Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
- 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.
Grade 7
- Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
- 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.
