Geographic Literacy

Geographic Literacy

Place/Sense of Place

Place-Name Geography

Human-environment interaction

Legend

Physical Geography

Write a great headline

Write a great headline

Write a great headline

Write a great headline

Skills:

• Naming key locations.
• Identifying locations on a map.

• Map-labeling practice
• Map Creation and 3-D Modeling with things like legos, play doh, or clay
• "Find it" Games: Use maps to locate a place when you give a clue.
• Daily Geography Routine: post a "Place of the Week"
• Puzzle maps
• Connection: Locate places in stories or current events.

• Refer to maps often
• Display maps and globes
• Mapping skills can apply to learners' environment

Skills:

• Describe what makes a location unique.
• Identify physical and human characteristics.

• Fieldtrips or Virtual Tours: Visit local or virtual landmarks. Google Earth, Geoguessr, museums, parks, etc. all give virtual access to students.
• Culture Connections: Explore foods, music, and traditions from different regions to build emotional connection and understanding.
• Photo Journals: Use classroom photo displays of different places around the world to spark discussion about identity and belonging.

• My Place Project: Have students create posters or booklets about their hometown, school, or community.
• Compare Places: Examine photos or videos of different regions and identify what makes them similar or different (climate, architecture, language etc.)
• Art and Storytelling: Students write about what makes a place meaningful to them. Read literature to give students exposure to different cultures and places.

Skills: Analyzing how people adapt to or change their environment. Explaining how the natural environment shapes events.

• Then and now comparisons: Show photos of an area over time.
• Classroom experiments: Explore weather and adaptation (e.g. design "homes" for different climates).
• Mappting natural resources: Identify where food, water, or materials come from and how humans depend on them.
• Problem-solving discussions: Talk about challenges like pollution, recycling, or conservation and what communities do.

• Role-play: Act out scenarios-farmers responding to drought, engineers designing flood barriers, etc.
• Weather journals: Track local weather and discuss how it affects what people wear, eat, and do.

Skills:

• Identifying landforms, bodies of water, climate, and natural features.
• Explaining how these physical features influence human activity and events.

• "Where does it come from?": Trace common items back to natural sources
• Resource map
• Water cycle in a bay
• Volcaor or erosion experiments
• System diagramming (e.g., how rain affects rivers and plants)
• Interactive simulations (e.g., NASA kids or National Geographic Kids)

• 3D Models of landforms
• Landform maps
• Sorting images or create landform art
• "Where in the World? Game
• Climate zones map
• Clothing connection: match clothing to climates around the world.
• Resource sorting