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Course/Subject: Social Studies / 6th Grade
Topic: Geography of Latin America
Date:
Team:
School District: Glynn County
Key Learning: Location, climate, environmental concerns, and natural resources affect where people
live and how they trade.
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Unit Essential Question:
How does location, climate, environmental concerns, and natural
resources affect where people live and how they trade?
Concept:
Physical Features of Latin
America
Concept:
Political Features of Latin
America
Concept:
Climate and Natural Resources
of Latin America
Lesson Essential Questions:
 What are the major physical
features of Latin America
and where are they located
on a map?
Lesson Essential Questions:
 What are the major political
features of Latin America
and where are they located
on a map?
Lesson Essential Questions:
 What types of climates are
found in Latin America?
 What kinds of natural
resources are found in Latin
America?
 How does climate affect
where people live and
trade?
 How does location of natural
resources affect where
people live and trade?
Vocabulary:
 Amazon River
 Atlantic Ocean
 Caribbean Sea
 Gulf of Mexico
 Pacific Ocean
 Andes Mountains
 Sierra Madre Mountains
 Atacama Desert
Vocabulary:
 Bolivia
 Brazil
 Colombia
 Cuba
 Haiti
 Mexico
 Panama
 Venezuela
Vocabulary:
 Natural Resources
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Additional Information/Resources: Teacher created PowerPoints, outline maps of Latin America, graphic
organizers, Student Atlas, Mastering the Georgia 6th grade CRCT in Social Studies (American Book
Company), Georgia Standards.org, Georgia CRCT Test Prep in Social Studies (Clairmont Press), McDougal
Littel World Cultures and Geography, Georgia CRCT Coach 6th Grade, McDougal Littel World Cultures and
Geography Reading Study Guide, McDougal Littel World Cultures and Geography Workout, Organizing
Thinking Book 2.
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Concept:
Environmental Concerns
of Latin America
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Lesson Essential
Questions:
 What are the major
environmental
concerns of Latin
America?
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Questions:
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Vocabulary:
 air pollution
 oil pollution
 deforestation
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