 Adirondack
Curriculum
Project - www.adkcurriculum.org
NYS Content Area Standard
Social Studies 3. Geography
Performance Indicators:
SS3.C1A Understand how to develop and use maps and other graphic
representations to display
geographic issues, problems and questions.
SS3.C.1B describe the physical characteristics of the Earth's
surface and investigate the
continual reshaping of the surface by physical processes and
human activities.
SS3.c.1C Investigate the characteristics, distribution, and
migration of human populations on the Earth's surface.
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Title: The
Adirondacks & The Five Themes of Geography
Grade Level: 9th/Global Studies
Author: Jim Fletcher
Email: Educator63@live.com
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Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
_X_ Natural History
_X_ Human History
___ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
_X_ Economy
___ Health, Recreation &
Life Skills |
Investigative Question or Issue:
Challenge:
Geographers
study the earth as the home of people.
1. As a student you will identify the Five Geographic Themes of
Geography in relation to the
Adirondacks of New York State. (see comments)
a. Identify where the Adirondacks are
located, in terms of its Relative and Absolute Location.
b. Determine Place (Physical & Human
Characteristics) and describe what it is like there in the
Adirondacks.
c. Answer the question about the Human
and Enviornement Interaction in the Adirondacks.
What do the Adirondack
People do and what is the environmental interaction that has occurred
there?
d. How has Movement in the Adirondacks
linked the communities of people with each other?
e. What word or pharse could you use to
describe or generalize about the Adirondack region?
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Quality Standards:
Product,Research,
Identification and Description of Five Themes of Geography
for Adirondack Region
. challenge completed at the end of the allotted time.
. all 5 themes assgined are covered and completed.
. use of internet sources and a variety of other materials,
and a working bibliography kept.
. contains wel-written, complete answers to each of the 5
themes of geogrpahy.
. can verify, explain and defend information provided.
. visually appealing, neat, attractive.
. includes appropriate additional information
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Adapted for the Adirondack
Curriculum Project from
the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC
©ACP 2002
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Produced
at the 2008 Adirondack Geography Institute