Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Well Bust My Buttons!

Created by Rachel Hansen of Muscatine, Well Bust My Buttons gives students from grade seven to grade twelve the opportunity to learn about the unique button factory industry of Muscatine, Iowa. Through this lesson students will learn about site and situation of facotires in Muscatanie before applying these ideas to other facotires around the world.

Discipline/Subject

Human Geography

Theme

Population

Economic

Cartography/Maps

Historical

Region

Iowa

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Iowa Core 21st Century Standards

TL 3. Apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

16. The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments

GE 3. Understand how human factors and the distribution of resources affect the development of society and the movement of populations