Author(s): Jennsey McGee

Rationale: The purpose of this activity is to locate and describe many important United States physical and man-made features.

Author(s): Jennsey McGee

Rationale: The purpose of this activity is to differentiate between weather and
climate.

Author(s): Carolyn Montgerard

Rationale: The purpose of this activity is to have students analyze why people live, work, and travel as they do.

Author(s): Carolyn Montgerard

Rationale: The purpose of this activity is to allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of Australia by completing a "View from Here" poem.

Author(s): Sandra McQueen

Rationale: The student will give examples of the kinds of goods and services produced in Georgia in different historical periods.

Author(s): Judith K. Bock

Rationale: This lesson is designed so students will identify relationships between locations of past news events and current news events.

Author(s): Martha Gilham-Smith. Alma Benson. and Ginny Hmell

Rationale: With the advent of international trade our
society has become increasingly dependent on products from other countries. Clothing is one example that is easily identified as a global commodity. This lesson will introduce the concept of global interdependence by Identifying the origin of the student's clothing.

Author(s): Vivian Johnson and Tracy Thorson

Rationale: Students will use their geographical knowledge to explore changes in their community, state. and country.

Author(s): Ginny Harrel and Alma Benson

Rationale: The Earth's water supply is finite. This unit provides hands-on activities that will increase students' geographic and environmental knowledge of this liquid resource.

Author(s): Joie McGill

Rationale: This lesson was designed to establish the
location of continents.

Author(s): Beth Moulder

Rationale: The students will develop an increased
Understanding of a selected country using the
five themes of geography.

Author(s): Alma Benson

Rationale: This unit is meant to encourage students to verbalize, write, and/or draw the importance of family living and how all family members' lives are intertwined in various: ways, It is also meant to develop a better understanding and appreciation of family members and family life.

Author(s): Beth Moulder

Rationale: The Earth is in a state of constant change.
Plate Tectonics is a theory that the
movement of large slabs or plates are
responsible for the landforms on the earth's
surface. The study of Plate Tectonics aids
students' understanding of why some of the
world's mountain ranges are located in
certain regions. The student will a better
understanding of physical changes on the
Earth's surface from this lesson plan.

Author(s): Scott R. Myers

Rationale: This lesson is intended to be an introduction
to map making and map reading. It uses the
book Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins to create an
interest in mapping.

Author(s): Anita Goodwin

Rationale: This lesson is designed to incorporate
children's literature with geography
instruction. The student will develop a
global address.

Author(s): Jane Anderson

Rationale: Many ethnic and cultural groups are a part of the population of the state of Georgia. Very few citizens would be considered "Native Georgians'". The Many Faces: of Georgia was written to focus on the cultural diversity of our state.

Author(s): Alma Benson

Rationale: One of the Earth's most dynamat1c geologic
processes has tremendous environmental
impact on humans. It has literally helped
shape our planet. Few persons are unaffected
by at least some aspect of volcanoes. This
unit will introduce students to the physical
and geographical aspects of volcanoes and the
possible affect it could have on their lives.

Author(s): Scott R. Myers

Rationale: The geographic theme of place deals with human and physica1 chacteristics that distinguish it from every other place. This activity focuses on using professional sports as a mechanism to illustrate place.

Author(s): Wendy Hughes and Joie McGill

Rationale: Mental maps are the impressions and images we develop about our even places we have never visited. This lesson uses mental maps to explore
perceptions of different regions.

Author(s): Wendy Hughes

Rationale: If Walls Could Talk is a unit designed to
introduce students to different cultures by
exploring important walls around the world.

Author(s): Karen Butler

Rationale: This activity is designed to demonstrate
how Georgia's trash connects us with the
World

Author(s): Vivan Johnson

Rationale: The students will understand that products
bought at the store are made by using natural
resources from around the World.

Author(s): Joie McGill

Rationale: This lesson is designed to give students a
brief introduction to a particular country
from the perspective of a tourist.

Author(s): Jane Anderson

Rationale: Purpose: To acquaint students with disasters
and their affect on different regions of states,
countries, and regions of the world.

Author(s): Robyn Brown

Rationale: This lesson is designed to introduce the
concept of cities to students. The lesson
includes learning the components of a
city life and culture, and map skills. The
students win explore these conepts in
cooperative groups as they design their own
cities.

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