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Content Area: Social Studies
Index: 6.6B Grade 8 CPI 2
Standard: 6.6 - Geography
Strand: B - Places and Regions
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will describe how regions change over time.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· Individually or in teams, students identify an older person to interview—someone who has lived in the community for at least 20 years or more (e.g., a parent, grandparent, neighbor, other local resident). Before the actual interviews, the class works together to create a list of questions that each student will use. Consider the following examples: How long have you lived in this community? Identify ways in which the community has changed during this time period. How have these changes helped the community at large? Have any changes harmed you in any way? Which ones—and how? Give the students time to conduct one or more interviews. Encourage them to ask additional questions, take notes, and record the interview, if feasible. Students may visit local libraries, museums, and historical societies and sites to obtain copies of photographs, maps, and newspaper articles that support their findings. Each student (or team of students) presents findings to the class.
· Using the chalkboard and mural paper, make a basic road map of your community on the paper and a 50-year timeline on the chalkboard. The students use “Post-its” to document all major occurrences within the community—putting site-specific changes and dates on the map, and overall occurrences and dates the timeline. Students discuss the following questions: What types of changes have occurred during the past 20 years or so? Which changes seemed well received by community residents? Which seemed ill received? What areas of the community have been left in a natural state, and why? Which areas have been restored or improved? Which areas have been altered? How have some changes improved the quality of the environment? Which changes may have harmed the quality of the environment? What are the consequences of each type of change?
· Students choose a topic about their community (e.g., housing, transportation, heat and light, religion, education) and write an essay discussing the current situation in the community. They include a prediction about the changes that may take place in their community during the next 10 years. What information is needed by the students (and is available to them) in order for them to make that prediction? What effects or consequences would these predicted changes have on the local environment and environmental protection? What recommendations do they have for the community’s planners and decision makers? Students visit the school library and/or public library to obtain relevant information with the help of the library media specialist.
Inspiration Template:
· Use symbols, links, and link text to show sequences and timelines.
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