Content Area: Social Studies

 

Index: 6.6A Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard: 6.6 - Geography

 

Strand: A -  World in Spatial Terms

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will translate maps into appropriate spatial graphics to display geographical information.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        After drawing and labeling the continents and oceans of the world on an outline map, students locate the major geographic, political, and cultural regions. Using the Internet, students access the flight schedules of various airlines and identify the world’s busiest airports. They use the atlas and texts to determine why there are so many flights to certain locations and what the planes carry besides passengers. Students also identify the types of air cargo, other than mail, that might be carried on their flight.

 

·        Students check the newspapers of major port cities such as Philadelphia and New York and look at the itemized list of ship departures and arrivals. They plot the ships’ routes on maps and attempt to discover what type of cargo the ships carry to each destination. Students can search for this information on the Internet.