Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

West Creek Development OSAE

This lesson plan was created by Jeff Firsching (Lawton-Bronson Jr./Sr. High School) for students in the 7th grade. In this lesson plan, studens will observe, speculate, analyze, and evaluate information regarding the transformation of the West Creek development area from farm fields in 2007, to a housing development of almost 2 dozen homes in 2013.

Discipline/Subject

Physical Geography

Theme

Environmental

Region

Iowa

United States

North America

Five Themes of Geography

Human-Environment Interaction

National Geographic Standards

3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

12. The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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 processes and human actions modify the environment and how the environment affects humans