Trade in a Long Country | Geographic Alliance of Iowa

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This lesson was created for students from seventh to twelfth grade. As a result of this lesson plan, students will understand how people adapt to where they live and what resources are available to them.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Physical Geography

Economics

English

Computers/Technology

Theme

Environmental

Landforms

Climate

Population

Economic

Cartography/Maps

Cultural/Social

21st Century Universal Constructs

Creativity

Collaboration

Region

Iowa

United States

North America

Latin America

Chile

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Region

Common Core Standards

Speaking and Listening Standards (SL)

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

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

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