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Fighting Cholera With Maps. This lesson will help students learn how mapping techniques can be used to understand social issues and to solve problems.
Teaching Level: Grades 6-12
Geography Themes: Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement
Geography Standards: 1, 3, and 17

Look! You’re Wearing Geography. This lesson introduces the concept of global interdependence by exploring the origins of many of the goods that students wear and use every day.
Teaching Level: Grades 5-10
Geography Themes: Location, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, Regions
Geography Standards: 2 and 11

Made in the U.S.A. Students will be challenged to think about the ways that cultures develop. Most cultures have absorbed traits of other cultures; many have imposed their own customs on others as well. In today’s interconnected world, customs and other aspects of culture are exchanged faster than ever, through trade, travel, and the media.
Teaching Level: Grades 6-9
Geography Themes: Movement, Location, Place, Regions
Geography Standards: 6 and 10

Mental Mapping. This lesson uses mental maps to explore student perceptions of different regions of the United States. Geographers refer to the impressions and images that we all form of our physical surroundings as mental maps.
Teaching Level: Grades 7-12
Geography Themes: Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, Regions
Geography Standards: 1, 2, and 6

Regions: A Hands-on Approach. This lesson introduces the characteristics of a region and helps students understand what regions are and how to define regional boundaries.
Teaching Level: Grades 6-12
Geography Themes: Regions
Geography Standards: 4, 5, and 6

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