Lesson plan

Water Coverage: Using Circle Graphs to Understand the Earth


GeoSTEM

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.

Duration

1 class period

Author

Pam
Van Arsdale

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

Teacher Instructions

VanArsdaleWaterT.pdf (125.28 KB)

Student Materials

rees_water.jpg (33.73 KB)

Materials To Assist Teachers and English Language Learners

Supplemental Files