Title: Many Ways to Name a Place  | National Geographic Society
Headings: Many Ways to Name a Place
Many Ways to Name a Place
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1. Introduce the concept of living in one place that can be identified by many different names.
2. Compare several maps showing a “home” at different scales.
3. View students’ many places on an interactive map.
4. Have students map their home at multiple scales.
5. Have students create their own atlases of their home at multiple scales.
Informal Assessment
Extending the Learning
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Content: Subjects & Disciplines
Geography
Learning Objectives
Students will: identify a location in a neighborhood, city, state, country, continent, and the world
describe the map features at different scales
identify their own location in the world
Teaching Approach
Learning-for-use
Teaching Methods
Discussions
Information organization
Visual instruction
Skills Summary
This activity targets the following skills: 21st Century Student Outcomes
Information, Media, and Technology Skills
Information, Communications, and Technology Literacy
Learning and Innovation Skills
Communication and Collaboration
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Critical Thinking Skills
Applying
Understanding
Geographic Skills
Acquiring Geographic Information
Analyzing Geographic Information
Connections to National Standards, Principles, and Practices
National Council for Social Studies Curriculum Standards
Theme 3 : People, Places, and Environments
National Geography Standards
Standard 1 : How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information
Standard 5 : That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5 : Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, RI.4.7
Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5 : Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, RI.5.7
Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5 : Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, RI.3.7
The College, Career & Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards
Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World: