Lesson/Unit Title: Your 8th Greatest Place
Teacher: Anne LaLonde-Laux
Teacher Information: St. Louis Park Junior High
2025 Texas Ave. South
St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55426
Overview: Giving students a chance to create their own greatest place
Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High
Greatest Places Themes:
Curiosities
Connections
Diversity
Geography Standards Alignment:
How physical systems affect human systems
Physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface
Outcomes: For students to tie their creativity, knowledge of world places, and writing skills to tell about one of the World's Greatest Places.
Time Needed: 1-50 minute class period with a writing assignment at home
Materials: An explanation or previous viewing of The Greatest Places
Activities: Allow the students to journal where their 8th greatest place in world would be. In there journalling they should include:
Where it is
The type of physical feature
Why they chose it
What they would do there
Assessment Strategies: