Content Standard: Geography
A. Skills and Tools
Students will know how to construct and interpret maps and use globes and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, regions, and environments.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Visualize the globe and construct maps of the world and its sub-regions to identify patterns of human settlement, major physical features, and political divisions.	Design maps population physical political as they relate to units of study.			Students will make weekly maps. They will read chapters 1 and 2 in the Silver Burdett Ginn textbook. They will take a field trip to Delorme. They will compare and contrast different types of maps. They will make vocabulary charts of geography. They will do the Geography question of the day. They will use atlases and globes. They will use flash cards and Geography bingo. They will make paper mache maps. They will do map activities on the Internet.	The students will make an atlas. They will fill in blank maps as a test.	Maps: political physical climate precipitation cartographer grid system latitude longitude prime meridian equator hemisphere