Geography · Week 6 · Thinking Spatially: Maps, Places, and Regions
Places Change, Places Remain
Comparing old and new photos of a valley town to track change and continuity and naming what stays steady in students' lives during times of change.
- Students will
- Students analyze change and continuity in a valley town using before and after evidence and explain what has stayed steady across time (D2.His.2).
- SEL skill
- Name what stays steady and choose a hopeful thought or action when things change
- What it looks like
- Students practice coping with change by naming what stays steady in their lives and what helps them feel hopeful.
- Content focus
- Places Change, Places Remain
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
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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.4: National Geography Standard 4
- NGS.12: National Geography Standard 12
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST2 Analyze how change happens at different rates at different times, and how it affects values and beliefs as well as technology and politics. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.2.9-12 Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.3 Analyze a series of events and determine whether earlier events caused later ones.
More self-management activities for Geography
- Living in a Biome Self-managementComparing how desert plants and animals adapt to extremes and identifying strategies students use to persevere through hard seasons.
- When Heat Shapes a Community Self-managementExploring how extreme heat affects work, school, and health in the valley and building a personal plan to stay calm and safe in the heat.
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