Alabama Social Studies SS24.1.9
The Standard
Differentiate among landforms, bodies of water, and other physical features on maps, globes, and satellite and digital images.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find mountains, lakes, and forests on maps, globes, and satellite or digital images. They sort each as a landform, body of water, or other natural feature and explain what helped them decide.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student identifies a mountain on a globe, a lake on a map, and a forest in a satellite image. They explain that a forest is made of trees, not the shape of the land.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a forest a landform because it grows on land. They may call an island a body of water because water surrounds it, or mistake a winding road for a river.
How to Assess It
- Show three circled features: a mountain on a globe, a lake on a map, and a forest in a satellite image. Ask students to name each feature type and give one clue for each choice.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a globe, map, and satellite printout; have them place sticky notes on a mountain, lake, and forest wherever each appears.
Show a map and satellite image of the same river; ask, 'What clues tell you this is water and not a road?'
Play Feature Sort: students place picture cards of hills, lakes, rivers, and forests under landform, water, or other natural feature.
Open a satellite view of a local lake; students point to the water and shoreline, then identify the lake as a body of water.
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Related Standards
- SS24.2.9
Compare the physical characteristics of regions throughout the United States, including landforms.
- SS24.2.7
Identify the seven continents, the five oceans, and the Equator shown on maps, globes, and satellite and digital images.
- SS24.K.8
Identify landforms and bodies of water on maps, globes, and satellite and digital images.
- SS24.7.1b
Use physical, political, and special-purpose maps to identify the distribution of people, location of places, and classification of physical features.
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