Geography Standard Four - Grades K-3

Sample Activities

Students might be assigned to examine the local community, analyzing the natural environments and the human activities which take place there. They would then draw and explain boundaries between districts or neighborhoods, and compare what makes any student's home different form other places [Regions].

Students might be asked to use maps of world climatic regions to predict the type of clothing, housing, outdoor activity, etc., which might be found in a specified area. They would then investigate the references to see if those predictions are correct [Regions].

Students might be asked to gather evidence of interaction between their hometowns and other places in the world, such as clothing worn, mail received, goods in stores, etc. This information could be mapped, and using simple concepts of distance, direction, available means of transport, and cultural or historical associations between places they could explain the mapped patterns which emerge [Regions].

A similar activity is described in the K-3 economics standards addressing the nature of international trade.

to Geography Standard Four.