Geography Skills and Tools
Essential Standards Clarifying Objectives
6.G.2 - Apply the tools of a geographer to 6.G.2.1 - Use maps, charts, graphs, geographic data and available technology tools to draw
understand the emergence, expansion and conclusions about the emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and
decline of civilizations, societies and regions. regions.
6.G.2.2 - Construct maps, charts and graphs to explain data about geographic phenomena
(e.g., migration patterns and population and resource distribution patterns).
6.G.2 - Apply the tools of a geographer to 6.G.2.1 - Use maps, charts, graphs, geographic data and available technology tools to draw
understand the emergence, expansion and conclusions about the emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and
decline of civilizations, societies and regions. regions.
6.G.2.2 - Construct maps, charts and graphs to explain data about geographic phenomena
(e.g., migration patterns and population and resource distribution patterns).
(6.G.2.1) The student will understand:
(6.G.2.1) The student will be able to:
(6.G.2.2) The student will know:
(6.G.2.2) The student will be able to:
- Maps, charts, graphs, geographic data, and available technology tools can be used to organize information around the five (5) themes of geography.
(6.G.2.1) The student will be able to:
- Interpret maps, charts, graphs and geographic data.
- Draw conclusions from maps, charts, graphs, geographic data and available technology tools.
(6.G.2.2) The student will know:
- Parts of maps, charts and graphs (e.g., key, legend, compass rose, title, scale, etc..)
(6.G.2.2) The student will be able to:
- Create their own maps, charts and/or graphs to explain pre-existing data. FOR EXAMPLE: Students may use two maps of Ireland - one topographical and one showing natural resources - to create their own graphic representation depicting where people might initially settle based upon the information gained from the other two maps.
Transfer Goal (6.G.2, 6.G.2.1, 6.G.2.2): Independently identify and interpret data from maps, charts and graphs.
Essential Questions and Understandings:
Knowledge and Skills:
Essential Questions and Understandings:
- Why is that there?
- How does where we live impact how we live?
- Are societies really all that different?
- When do we need a map?
- When do I rely on my senses instead of maps?
- What makes places unique and different?
Knowledge and Skills:
- Physical features of places
- Five themes of geography
- Geographer's Tools
- Explaining and recognizing parts of a map (compass rose, legend, scale, etc..)