Regional guidebook
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In this Xpeditions lesson, students consider the unique physical and human characteristics of their home region and to create guidebooks that describe these features to visitors to the region.
Students will:
- list the things they think are important for other people to know about their home region;
- research and take notes on their region’s physical and human characteristics; and
- Create visitors’ guidebooks that describe their region’s unique physical and human characteristics.
Xpeditions provides detailed instructions for completing the lesson, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, and links to an online interactive map-making tool and related activities.
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 1.01: 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.
- Goal 13: The learner will describe the historic, economic, and cultural connections among North Carolina, the United States, South America, and Europe.
- Objective 13.01: Identify historical movements such as colonization, revolution, emerging democracies, migration, and immigration that link North Carolina and the United States to selected societies of South America and Europe and evaluate their influence on local, state, regional, national, and international communities.
- Objective 13.02: Describe the diverse cultural connections that have influenced the development of language, art, music, and belief systems in North Carolina and the United States and assess their role in creating a changing cultural mosaic.
