Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Lake Mills O.S.A.E. Land Mark and Business Field Walk

This lesson, created by Angie Boehmer of Lake Mills Elementary School, allows fifth grades students a deeper look into their hometown. Students will crete a map that includes local landmarks and buisiness, and at the end of the lesson, will have the opportunity to go on a field walk to view the places they have incldued. This lesson can easily be adapted for any town!

Discipline/Subject

American History

Economics

Art

Theme

Urban

Economic

Cartography/Maps

Cultural/Social

Historical

Region

Iowa

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

2. How to use mental maps to organize information about people places, and environments in a spatial context

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

BS 1. Understand the changing nature of society

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments

GE 2. Understand how geographic and human characteristics create culture and define regions