Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

City/Building/Directions/Nature/Weather/Forest Animal Words

This lesson plan was created by Denise Liechty (Mount Pleasant Community School District) for students from tenth to twelfth grade. In this lesson plan, students will understand which words to use to describe their surroundings.

Discipline/Subject

Physical Geography

Foreign Language

Theme

Environmental

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

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

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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