Creating Detail in the Settling of a Short Story Using Geography

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This lesson plan was created by Deborah Vroom (WisdomQuest Education Center - Mount Pleasant Community School District) for students from eleventh to twelfth grade. The goal of this lesson is to help students create the setting of a short story by incorporating and using the themes of geography.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

Physical Geography

English

Language Arts

Theme

Environmental

Landforms

Climate

Cartography/Maps

Region

North America

Latin America

Chile

Europe

Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa

Nigeria

Middle East

India

Bangladesh

South Asia

Asia

Australia/Oceania

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Region

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

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

15. How physical systems affect human systems

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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

GE 2. Understand how physical and human characteristics create and define regions

GE 3. Understand how human factors and the distribution of resources affect the development of society and the movement of populations

GE 4. Understand how physical and human processes shape the Earth's surface and major ecosystems

GE 5. Understand how human actions modify the environment and how the environment affects humans

GE 6. Understand how culture affects the interaction of human populations through time and space

GE 7. Understand how cultural factors influence the design of human communities

Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Creating Detail in the Settling of a Short Story Using Geography