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A Summer Day. Using clues written into a passage that describes a beautiful summer day, this lesson challenges students to identify the location of the story.
Teaching Level: Grades 4-8
Geography Themes: Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Regions
Geography Standards: 1, 2, and 4

Environmental Explorer. In this lesson students will use observation skills to analyze changes that people have made to the natural environment. And they will discuss their own opinions and viewpoints—as well as those of others—regarding environmental change.
Teaching Level: Grades 3-8
Geography Themes: Human/Environment Interaction, Place
Geography Standards: 4, 14, and 18

Neighborhood Services—Where Are They and Why? This lesson focuses on the locations of public and private community services and invites students to explore reasons why services are located where they are. Using local examples gives students the opportunity to gather information from primary sources.
Teaching Level: Grades 1-5
Geography Themes: Location , Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, Regions
Geography Standards: 1, 3, and 12

Story Maps. In this activity younger students will discover geographic content in favorite literature by creating maps.
Teaching Level: Grades K-4

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