Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Using Google Earth to Track Carnegie Steel from U.S. History

This lesson was created by Tim Curnutte (Chariton School District) for eleventh grade students. This lesson plan allows students to understand Carnegie Steel and its movement of natural resources in the late 1800s.

Discipline/Subject

Physical Geography

American History

Computers/Technology

Theme

Cultural/Social

Historical

Region

United States

North America

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

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

16. The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources

17. How to apply geography to interpret the past

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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

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

HI 4. Understand the role of individuals and groups within a society as promoters of change or the status quo

HI 5. Understand the effect of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions