Lesson plan

“Unloching” Scottish Geography Using Photographs


GeoLiteracy

Description

This lesson will give students practice in using their visual skills to identify geographic terms for landforms and water bodies. This use of photographs of Scotland will aid in the students making and recording observations. Through this lesson, students will learn that Scotland is similar to other parts of the world in terms of its landforms and water bodies, but the geographic terms might have unique names in Scotland.

Duration

1 class period

Author

Carol Warren
Gale Ekiss

Standards

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
4: The physical and human characteristics of places

Teacher Instructions

EkissUnlochingT.pdf (131.74 KB)

Student Materials

Materials To Assist Teachers and English Language Learners

Supplemental Files