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Grade 7, Geography Std 1.3: Analyzing the relationships among people, places, and the environment by mapping information about them, including trade patterns, government alliances and immigration patterns.

Lesson Plans: Comparing Countries In this lesson students will: 1. make predictions about facts concerning the United States and either China or the Democratic Republic of Congo 2. collect data about the United States, either China or the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a third country 3. use the data they collect to create graphs 4. analyze the data in the graphs they have created Buying Time: Learning About How the World Is Responding to Palestinian Call For Financial Aid In this lesson, students explore the financial and political relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Middle Eastern countries. Nurturing Nature Analyzing the Impact of Humans in Environmental Disasters. In this lesson, students identify some of Earth's most serious environmental problems and what causes them. "The Tennessee River: The Tie That Binds" This activity, entitled requires students to analyze maps, charts, and graphs in order to determine the most efficient method of transporting bulk products to markets. (To bypass password click cancel twice) Changing Nature’s Course: A Look at the Kissimmee River In this lesson, students will learn about a major event in which humans modified the physical environment in the United States. Human Impacts on Major Rivers of the World Humans continue to explore ways of adapting river systems to meet identified needs or desires. These adaptations often result in long term impacts on the environment and require humans to modify their behavior in response to such changes. This cause and effect relationship is especially observable in many of the world's major river systems. (To bypass password click cancel twice) What Can We Learn from Satellite Images? Students will look at maps and satellite images to see how various settled parts of the Earth have changed over the past few decades. They will then draw maps of their hometown, showing how it might have looked in satellite images in the 1970s and today. This will probably require some research into their town's recent history.

Resources: PCL Map Room A collection of more than 250,000 maps. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) This site contains satellite images of environmental change (this site includes satellite imagery on urban areas, agriculture, deserts, and many other types of regions on earth).
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