Desired Results: State Standards, Questions, Understandings, and Objectives

Stage 1: Identifying Desired Results

Content Standards Geography Grads 9-12
• “The student will use maps, globes, geographic information systems, and other databases to answer geographic questions at a variety of scales from local to global.”
• “The student will understand the regional distribution of the human population at local to global scales and its patterns of change.”

Enduring Understandings
• Maps and aerial photos are rich sources of information about the character of places and the people who inhabit them.
• People migrate to different locations because they are compelled to leave by conditions in one location or because they are enticed to leave by conditions in another.

Essential Questions
• What can we learn about a place from a map?
• How can we understand people from maps of the places they live?
• How can online mapping technology be used in everyday life?
• Why are humans always moving to different places?

Students Will Know…
• …the basic components of a map.
• …where to find mapping software online.
• …the characteristics of a geographic location determine the kind of life people live in there.
• …maps can be used to learn about people’s economic and political behavior.
• …people move to different locations for a number of reasons.

Students Will Be Able To…
• …obtain geographic information from a variety of print and electronic sources.
• ...draw conclusions about the character of places based on a comparison of maps, aerial photos, and other images.
• …make their own maps and utilize online interactive mapping software
• …use maps data to compare and contrast the characteristics of regional populations
• …explain general patterns of human movement using the concepts of push and pull factors.