1st+Day+Activity

 **Objectives ** Students will  **Materials **  **Procedures ** When students have completed their maps, have them write a descriptive paragraph about their neighborhood. Each paragraph should include answers to the following questions: Have students share their maps and paragraphs with the class. Then discuss the similarities between the maps, the overall similarities in your area, and how these similarities help define the local culture. Share with the class the information you have gathered about the economy and industry of your area and talk about how geography and environment has influenced the local economy.  **Evaluation ** Use the following three-point rubric to evaluate students' work during this lesson. > > <span style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: #d7d7d7 1pt dashed; display: block; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 9pt;">
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use geography skills to create neighborhood maps, and
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">identify connections between geography, culture, and the economy in their local area.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Large white construction paper //(at least one sheet per student)//
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Pencils and erasers
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Colored markers or crayons
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Maps of your local area and other city maps (Malden 1890/1891)
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Information about the economy, industry, and attractions in your local area //(usually can be found in relocation packets at a local Chamber of Commerce or local real estate offices)//
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Computer with Internet access (optional)
 * [|//Understanding: Geography//]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">video and VCR or DVD and DVD player
 * 1) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Begin the lesson by viewing <span style="color: #0e7bb3; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[| //Understanding: Geography//] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">. Then talk about the science of geography, the types of things geographers study, and the reasons they study them.
 * 2) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Briefly discuss the different cultures and industries students saw in the program and the connections between a place's cultures and industries and its geography.
 * 3) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Tell students that they will be making neighborhood maps to discuss local geography, economy, and culture. Share maps of your local area or other city maps, and discuss roads, major buildings, parks, natural geographic features, town centers or shops, and other kinds of things found on such maps. Talk about how to use the scale and other important features on a map. Talk about how some maps may include numbers or symbols to represent terrain or buildings; point out each map's key, where symbols are identified.
 * 4) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Have students talk about their own neighborhoods. How big are they? What activities take place there? Are there parks or businesses? What kinds of buildings are in their neighborhood?
 * 5) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Tell students that they will begin to design their neighborhood maps as homework. Each map should be designed as a square, with a student's home at the center. Tell students to walk a block or two north, south, east, and west of their home, taking notes on what they see in all directions (houses, parks, businesses, types of vegetation and terrain, etc.). Encourage students to make sketches of what they see. Students unable to complete maps of their own neighborhoods may make one of the neighborhood around the school.
 * 6) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">During the next class period have students create their maps. Tell them that each map should have a key to explain their map's symbols and include natural terrain, buildings, and streets. They may use creative symbols to represent map features as long as the symbols are included in the key. To see examples of neighborhood maps, students can go online to the following Web sites:
 * <span style="color: #0e7bb3; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[]
 * <span style="color: #0e7bb3; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|http://www.mapquest.com] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(by typing in an intersection or address students can see a general map of a particular area)
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">What kinds of terrain and vegetation can be found in your neighborhood?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">What do the buildings in your neighborhood look like? What similarities do the buildings have?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">What kinds of activities take place in your neighborhood? Where do they take place?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Has your neighborhood changed since you've lived there? If so, how?
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Three points: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students actively participated in class discussions; created artistic and informative neighborhood maps that included natural and manmade features as well as a key to explain the map's symbols; and wrote clear, informative paragraphs about their neighborhoods, answering all four questions.
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Two points: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students somewhat participated in class discussions; created somewhat informative neighborhood maps that included either natural or manmade features and a key explaining most of the symbols used on the map; and included three of four answers to the class questions in their neighborhood paragraphs.
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">One point: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students somewhat participated in class discussions; created unfinished or illegible neighborhood maps; and wrote disorganized paragraphs answering only one or two questions about their neighborhood.

<span style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-top: 4.5pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">**<span style="color: #0e7bb3; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">Vocabulary ** <span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**culture****:** A body of learned behaviors common to a given human society**Context:** Culture is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.

**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">environmen **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**:** The circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded**Context:** Geographers may study how the environment influences the way people earn a living.

**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">geography **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**:** The scientific study of Earth and its features**Context:** Geography is the study of the Earth, its features, the distribution of life, including humans and the effects of human activity on the environment.

**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">habitat **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**:** The place or environment where a plant or animal lives or grows; the typical place of residence of a person or a human group**Context:** Geographers are examining how the Chesapeake Bay has created an industry centered on harvesting oysters and how that industry affects the bay's habitat.

**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">map **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**:** A representation of a whole or a part of an area**Context:** With so much information to show, and so many ways to show it, maps are valuable tools for understanding the world around us.