Subject: - Currituck County Schools



Subject: Social Studies

Grade Level: 6th

Unit Title: Geography |Timeframe Needed for Completion: 4 weeks

Grading Period: 1st | |

|Big Idea/Theme: Geography Skills |

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|Understandings: |

|Map Skills |

|Landforms |

|Culture |

|Climate |

|Curriculum Goals/Objectives: |Essential Questions: |

|Competency Goal 1-3 |What makes places unique and different? |

|The student will use geographic tools to analyze geographic concepts. | |

|Objectives: 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.01, 3.02 | |

|Skills Competency Goal 3 | |

|3.01 Use map and globe reading skills | |

|3.02 Interpret graphs and charts. | |

|Essential Skills/Vocabulary: |Assessment Tasks: |

|Essential Skills | |

|Understand how mapmakers represent a round globe on a flat map. |Projects, journals, foldables |

|Explain how to recognize special parts of a map. |Create latitude & longitude bookmarks. |

|Describe how to read graphs, charts and diagrams. |Make a map of the classroom. |

|Vocabulary |Play a landform Jeopardy game. |

|globe, hemisphere, latitude, longitude, relative location, absolute location, map key, cardinal |Create foldable using the Geography Dictionary Terms |

|directions, compass rose, intermediate directions, scale, relief, elevation, contour line, elevation|Compare and contrast different uses for types of map projections. |

|profile |Geocaching |

| |Design your own island. Include a specific number of landforms, compute the proper scale for |

| |your posterboard and find the appropriate coordinates to place your island. Include a written |

| |narrative describing it all. |

| |Create a mural on the 8 aspects of culture. |

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|Integration Opportunities: |

|Math – Measurement, scale, angles |

|Writing – expository, giving directions |

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