Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Who's Developed?

This lesson plan was created by Brittany Lassen (Mount Pleasant Community High School) for students in 10th grade. By completing this lesson plan, students will be able to determine the level of development of a country based on its economic, social, and health characteristics.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

Theme

Economic

Cultural/Social

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Region

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

6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

10. The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

EC 2. Understand the role of scarcity and economic trade-offs and how economic conditions impact people's lives

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

GE 7. Understand how cultural factors influence the design of human communities