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"Ad-ing" to geography

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A lesson plan for Grade 6 Social Studies

Provider: National Geographic

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Appropriate grades
6
Subjects
social studies (economics, geography, sociology, world cultures), thinking skills (critical literacy, higher order thinking, information literacy, research skills, visual literacy), diverse learners (race and culture, socioeconomic diversity, urban students), education technology (integrating technology), teaching methods (cooperative learning, discussions, reflective learning)
Provider
National Geographic

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In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore the importance of developing a peer identity. This lesson provides opportunities for individual practice, small group work, and whole class discussion. Media literacy and geography are major concepts emphasized in activities.

Students will:

  • be able to classify several economic activities and to analyze these spatial patterns; and
  • use advertisements for contemporary products to explore economic and geographic concepts presented in the lesson.

Xpeditions provides detailed instructions for completing lesson, links to related activities and helpful web resources, and suggestions for assessments and extension assignments.

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.
    • 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 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.
    • Objective 13.03: Examine the role and importance of foreign-owned businesses and trade between North Carolina and the nations of South America and Europe, and evaluate the effects on local, state, regional, and national economies and cultures.