Geography · Week 4 · Thinking Spatially: Maps, Places, and Regions
Drawing Regions
Defining regions by climate, language, and economy in small teams and negotiating together where boundaries belong.
- Students will
- Students use geographic data on climate, language, and economy to define a region at more than one scale and explain why boundaries are chosen by people (NGS 5).
- SEL skill
- Take turns, listen to each teammate, and negotiate a compromise about a boundary
- What it looks like
- Students practice listening, sharing ideas, and negotiating with teammates to reach a fair decision about a boundary.
- Content focus
- Drawing Regions
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building healthy relationships by communicating clearly, listening well, working together, and resolving disagreements fairly. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- NGS.5: National Geography Standard 5
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI1 Show the connections between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Geo.3.9-12 Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas of a primary or secondary source and summarize them accurately.
More relationship skills activities for Geography
- The Bracero Journey Relationship skillsTracing the routes and agreements of the Bracero Program from 1942 to 1964 and considering how workers kept connections with families across borders.
- Borders and Cooperation Relationship skillsStudying how the United States and Mexico share rivers and a border through treaties such as the 1944 Water Treaty and practicing steps to rebuild trust after a disagreement.
- Gratitude for Place Relationship skillsStudents write thank you notes to a place and to a person in the valley that shaped their sense of belonging this semester.
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