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[7th Grade] [7th Grade Assignment Sheets] Geography] Language Arts] Math] Physical Science] Geography Unit Plan] Day 1] 2] [3] 4] [ 5 ]

**Teacher**- Stephanie Taylor
 * Class**- Geography
 * Grade Level**- 7th
 * Topic**- Five Themes of Geography... continued / Using Google Earth

Computers
 * Materials/ Technology needed **

17.A.3b Explain how to make and use geographic representations to provide and enhance spatial information including maps, graphs, charts, models, aerial photographs, satellite images.
 * State and/or National Goals **

Students will apply the five themes of geography to specific places.
 * Learning Objectives **

Students will relate the five themes of geography to two places of their choosing and write out and describe examples of how the five themes relate.
 * Assessment(s) explained **

The class will go over the previous night’s homework by making a list on the board of all of the countries that their clothes and belongings came from. The class will discuss how the goods that we use and their movement from other locations relate to the fourth theme of geography.
 * Introductory Activity **

1. Introductory activity (5 minutes)
 * Instructional procedures (including time) **

2. Research activity – Students will be instructed to think of a place that they have been and a place that they would like to travel to in the future. In their English class they will be discussing autobiographies so this will tie in to places that would be important in their own autobiography. Students will then research their two places online in order to find relate the five themes of geography to their places. Students can find their two places on Google Earth and use it to find exact and relative location. They will be required to describe their two places, list the relative and exact location, give an example of how human and/or environmental interaction has shaped their two places, give an example of a region that their place belongs to, and describe an example of a good, idea, or groups of people that moves two or from the region. (45 minutes)

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 * Closure Activity **