Instructions:
Biome Project for Social Studies: Powerpoint I will have an example on this website soon.
Slide 1: Choose a place (city) in North America to live, any place!
Tell where it is by relative location, absolute location, and print a map of the place.
Slide 2: List 5 landforms that will be in this place. How do these landforms affect you while you live or travel here? Include a picture (it has to be referenced.)
Slide 3: List 5 human made characteristics, how does this influence you as you live and travel here?
Slide 4: How has technology changed how people live here from 100 years ago? Think about farming and traveling.
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Slide 4: Copy this chart onto your slide:
Resource
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Found
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I use it for:
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Slide 5: Has the population increased in this area or away from this area in the past 20 years? Why do you think this is happening?
Rubric:
4
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Completes all slides accurately, with extensive explanation of why geography plays a part in everyday life. Students include details about the place and make connections to themselves.
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3
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Completes all slides, with explanation of why geography plays a part in everyday life. Students include details about the place and make some connections to themselves
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2
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Completes most slides, with some explanation of why geography plays a part in everyday life. Students include minor details about the place and make connections to themselves
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1
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Completes some slides, with explanation of why geography plays a part in everyday life. Students include details about the place and make connections to themselves
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Example:
Power Point:
Power Point:
Web Resources I used:
Web Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org then type the name of the town and country.
Also type in search box: landforms of ____Your place________
Geographic Characteristics: Man made (2nd page)
Life 100 years ago: Use your book and look at the 1800’s field trip.
Facts about 1912:
Population:
Either find it on the town’s Wikipedia page or go to
Canada
Mexico
I could only find it in Spanish.
Standards Covered in S.S.:
SS-06-4.1.1
Students will use a variety of geographic tools (maps, photographs, charts, graphs, databases, satellite images) to interpret patterns and locations on Earth’s surface in the present day.
DOK 3
SS-06-4.1.2
Students will describe how different factors (e.g., rivers, mountains, plains) affect where human activities are located in the present day. (landforms)
SS-06-4.2.1
Students will describe how regions in the present day are made distinctive by human characteristics (e.g., dams, roads, urban centers) and physical characteristics (e.g., mountains, bodies of water, valleys) that create advantages and disadvantages for human activities (e.g., exploration, migration, trade, settlement, development).
DOK 2
SS-06-4.2.2
Students will describe and give examples of how places and regions in the present day change over time as technologies, resources and knowledge become available.
DOK 2
SS-06-4.3.1
Students will describe patterns of human settlement in the present day and explain how these patterns are influenced by human needs.
DOK 2
SS-06-4.3.2
Students will explain why and give examples of how human populations may change and/or migrate because of factors such as war, famine, disease, economic opportunity and technology in the present day.
DOK 3
SS-06-4.4.1
Students will explain how technology in the present day assists human modification (e.g., irrigation, clearing land, building roads) of the physical environment in regions.
DOK 2
SS-06-4.4.2
Students will describe ways in which the physical environment (e.g., natural resources, physical geography, natural disasters) both promotes and limits human activities (e.g., exploration, migration, trade, settlement, development) in the present day.
DOK 2
SS-06-4.4.3
Students will explain how the natural resources of a place or region impact its political, social and economic development in the present day.
SS-06-4.4.4
Students will explain how individual and group perspectives impact the use of natural resources (e.g., urban development, recycling) in the present day.
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