Lesson/Unit Title: Picture This
Teacher: Anne LaLonde-Laux
Teacher Information: St. Louis Park Junior High
2025 Texas Ave. South
St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55426
Overview: Students use inquiry to examine photos and start investigation of different places around the earth.
Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High
Greatest Places Themes:
Geography Standards Alignment:
How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places and environments in a spatial context
Physical and human characteristics of places
Patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface
Processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement
Outcomes: To use inquiry to read clues through photos and then investigate some of the greatest physical features on the earth.
Time Needed: 2 - 50 minute class periods.
Materials: 4-5 laminated pictures from seven or so different places (you may want to use the places featured in the Greatest Places Omni film)
Questions preprinted and pasted to the back of the photos
Activities:
When students walk in the door hand them a laminated photo and instruct them to sit in their usual seat.
Once all the students have arrived explain that the photos are taken from 7 different places. They should try to find the others in their group based on the where the photos are from.
When their group has assembled allow them to start investigating the questions on the back of the photo (see sheet below)
Assessment Strategies:
What place might these pictures be from?
How would you describe this place based on the picture and what you may already know about it?
_______Teacher Check
Once the teacher has verified your guess, investigate the following about your place...