Lesson plan
Get to School the Safe Way: Creating a Safe Route from Home to School
GeoSTEM
Description
In this lesson, students are presented with the task of finding a safe route from home to school and measuring this route with an object (such as a paperclip) laid end to end.Duration
1-2 class periodAuthor
Dawn
Larson
Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information2: 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
5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
6: How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Teacher Instructions
LarsonGetschoolT.pdf
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Student Materials
LarsonGetschoolS.pdf
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