Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Riding the Metro in Chile

This lesson was created by Tami McInroy (Forest City School District) for students from seventh to twelfth grade. Throughout this lesson plan, students will learn how to ride the metro and get from place to place.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Foreign Language

Theme

Cartography/Maps

Cultural/Social

Region

Latin America

Chile

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Common Core Standards

Speaking and Listening Standards (SL)

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

9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

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

GE 4. Understand how physical and human processes shape the Earth's surface and major ecosystems

GE 5. Understand how human actions modify the environment and how the environment affects humans