Chapter 6 GEOGRAPHY
Elementary Social Studies
A Practical Guide
What is Geography?
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• Geography defined: the study of the Earth’s surface,
atmosphere and people.
• Table 6.1
– What does the geographically informed person
know?
• National Geographic Society scope and sequence
– K-1: personal/local
– 2-3: local/state; show student sample
– 3-5: state/U.S.
• Look at the textbook samples: find geography
related skills (p. 200 – On Your Own Activity 6.2)
Geography Websites
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• www.nationalgeographic.com
• www.mywonderfulworld.org
• http://nationalgeographic.com/portal/site/
kids
• www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/le
ssons
• http://www.kidsgeo.com/index.php
• http://www.weeklyreader.com
The 5 “Basic” Themes of
Geography p.186
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see samples!
Online Geography Quizzes
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www.eduplace.com/geonet
www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee
www.funbrain.com/where
www.lizardpoint.com/fun/quizhttp://www.
kidsgeo.com/index.php
Activ Board Samples
Flip Charts:
Map & Globe Skills sample; Grade 2 (GA)
Claire’s Hurricane sample
Making Geography Engaging
• You tell me. (P. 193-196)
• How did they make the following lessons
engaging?
– Where Born: Human Migration
– School’s Location: Land Usage and Place
– Neighborhood Services
– Candy Bars to Pizza Toppings
Trade Books
• Think of books that you know that can take
your class to faraway places!
• Share with a partner
• Varied genres: RF, BIO., NF, Poetry
• Literature Circle Role: Travel Tracer
• Masai and I , Sadako and the Thousand
Paper Cranes, Roberto Clemente, Bill and
Pete Go Down the Nile, The True Story of
Pocahontas, GOT Geography!
Roberto Clemente story wheel
Mexican Mariachi Band
Geography Software
• Page 200
Map Skills
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Systematic, explicit instruction; Page 203
Various resources: Home Depot, Cracker Barrel, online, etc.
Mapmaking; Page 206
13 colonies ziploc map
sample; peanut butter
dough map of Florida; My
Education Lab video- Salt Maps
13 Colonies Song:
Sung to the tune of “Yankee Doodle”
Virginia, Georgia, Delaware, and North Carolina
Massachusetts, Maryland and South Carolina
Pennsylvania, New York!
New Hampshire and New Jersey
Rhode Island and Connecticut
These were the thirteen colonies!
Geography Standards
1st Grade
• SS.1.G.1.1: Use physical and political/cultural maps to locate places in
Florida.
• SS.1.G.1.2: Identify key elements (compass rose, cardinal directions,
title, key/legend with symbols) of maps and globes .
• SS.1.G.1.3: Construct a basic map using key elements including cardinal
directions and map symbols.
SS.1.G.1.4: Identify a variety of physical features using a map and globe.
SS.1.G.1.5: Locate on maps and globes the student's local community,
Florida, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.
• SS.1.G.1.6: Describe how location, weather, and physical environment
affect the way people live in our community.
Geography Standards
2nd Grade
• SS.2.G.1.1: Use different types of maps (political,
physical, and thematic) to identify map elements.
• SS.2.G.1.2: Using maps and globes, locate the student's
hometown, Florida, and North America, and locate the
state capital and the national capital.
• SS.2.G.1.3: Label on a map or globe the continents,
oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole.
SS.2.G.1.4: Use a map to locate the countries in North
America (Canada, United States, Mexico, and the
Caribbean Islands).
Geography Standards
4th grade
• SS.4.G.1.1: Identify physical features of Florida.
• SS.4.G.1.2: Locate and label cultural features on a
Florida map.
• SS.4.G.1.3: Explain how weather impacts Florida.
• SS.4.G.1.4: Interpret political and physical maps
using map elements (title, compass rose, cardinal
directions, intermediate directions, symbols, legend,
scale, longitude, latitude).