Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WG.2.8
The Standard
Describe major physical characteristics of regions throughout the world.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use maps to find landforms, bodies of water, and climate patterns in different parts of the world. They describe places with named examples, such as the Amazon River or the Himalayas.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can locate the Sahara and describe its dry climate and desert terrain. They can locate the Amazon Basin and describe its river, lowlands, and rainforest, then explain how the two places differ.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list cities or country borders as physical features. They may assume all of Africa is desert or all of South America is rainforest.
How to Assess It
- Give students landform and climate maps. Ask them to name one landform and one climate trait for both the Sahara and Amazon Basin, then state one difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an atlas and a blank world map; have them shade the Sahara, Amazon Basin, and Himalayas and label one physical feature in each.
Ask, "How would a trip across the Sahara differ from one across the Amazon Basin?" Have students cite a map detail.
Play a card match with region names and physical features, then ask students to explain one match using an atlas.
Show a satellite image of the Nile Delta; students circle farmland beside the river and explain why farms cluster there.
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