Water Coverage: Using Circle Graphs to Understand the Earth

GeoSTEM
Lesson Plan Content
Description: 
In this lesson, students will discover the numerical relationship between water and land on the Earth’s surface by conducting an experiment and then creating a graph to display these statistics.
Author: 
Pam Van Arsdale
Grade Range: 
7
Duration: 
1 class period
Lesson Materials
Teacher Instructions: 
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Standards
National Geography Standards: 
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
2: How to use mental maps (a person's internalized picture of a part of Earth's surface) to organize information about people places, and environments
3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people places, and environments on Earth's surface
8: The characteristics and distribution of ecosystems on Earth's surface