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Mini-Lesson: Numbering Arizona’s Interstates


Description

In this mini-lesson, students will determine connections and spatial patterns by studying how interstates in Arizona are numbered, and then apply that geographic reasoning to other interstates throughout the United States.

Author

Cheri Stegall

Duration

30 minutes

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

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