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Grade Level/Subject:
Central Focus:
Fourth Grade/Social Studies
Students will demonstrate their knowledge about the
interactions of people, places, etc by learning the Five
Themes of Geography
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
4.G.1.3 Exemplify the interactions of various peoples, places
Date submitted:
Date
and cultures in terms of adaptation and modification of the
taught:
environment.
Daily Lesson Objective:
Students will be able to meet todays objective by demonstrating their knowledge of the
interactions of people, places, and the environment by reading an article on the Five Themes of
Geography and creating a booklet. Students are expected to give examples for each theme.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Critical Thinking & Problem
Vocabulary):
Solving; Students will be using
critical thinking when learning how Demonstrate; Students will be demonstrating their
the different themes of geography
knowledge about the interactions of people, etc. by
work together
learning the five themes of geography
Social & Cross Cultural Skills;
Vocabulary: Movement, Region, Human Environment
Students will be using cross
Interaction, Location, & Place
cultural skills as they learn about
how different places around the
world have different characteristics
and cultures
Prior Knowledge:
Students need to have a basic understanding of what geography means
Activity
2. Statement of
Objective
for Student
Time
3. Teacher Input
4. Guided Practice
5. Independent
Practice
Pass out paper to the students & instruct the students on how
to fold the paper. Tell them to fold the paper in half
horizontally three times then unfold the paper to the first fold.
The students then make a cut halfway into the folded side.
They are to take the two short sides and push them towards
each other so that the cut opens up and allows the paper to
fold into a booklet shape.
Once you have your booklet folded I want you to write a title
on the front page. Mine is going to say Five Themes of
Geography. Each of the pages is going to have one of the
five themes written on it. Mr. Help stands for Movement,
Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and finally
Place. Go ahead and write each of those five themes on a
different page of your booklets. You can use crayons,
markers, pencils, whatever you would like.
I want you guys to think about all of the examples we talked
about earlier when we read through the article. On each of
the pages in your booklets I want you to write an example
and draw a small picture that will help remind you what that
6. Assessment
Methods of
all
objectives/skills:
7. Closure
8. Assessment
Results of
all
objectives/skills:
Targeted Students
Modifications/Accommodations:
For ELLs you can go over the meaning of
each of the five themes of geography before
you read the article that way they have a
better understanding
Materials/Technology:
25 copies of Five Themes of Geography article
25 colored pieces of paper
SMART Board/Document camera
References:
Mrs. Williams
Reflection on lesson: N/A
Student/Small Group
Modifications/Accommodations:
For students who have trouble reading and
recalling information from text, you can pull them
into a small group and work with them on going
back into the text to find answers and examples