Learning Goals
Students will be able to identify continents and oceans on a world map to name major world regions.
Students will be able to use map tools such as titles, symbols, legends, and compass roses to read a map accurately.
Students will be able to describe absolute and relative location of Kentucky and selected world regions to show where places are in relation to one another.
Students will be able to compare physical and cultural characteristics of world regions and Kentucky to explain how places differ.
Students will be able to interpret photos, satellite images, and simple maps to gather geographic evidence about places.
Students will be able to explain how physical characteristics can affect how people live and move in a region.
Students will be able to document and revise a simple geography investigation using map evidence and feedback from peers.
Products
Kentucky Globetrotter Passport
Students create an individual passport with checkpoint entries, map notes, sketches, and labeled route maps showing what they learned about location, map tools, regions, and human-environment connections. The passport is revised over time and serves as evidence of each student’s geography learning.
Globetrotter Class Learning Video
As a class, students create one cumulative video in which each child briefly shows or names something they learned, such as a map tool, region, or passport page. The video is shared home with families by QR code or secure link as a celebration of the class’s geography learning.
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