World Cities Lesson Plans

1. Current Weather Condition Site Selection
LESSON PLAN: Current Weather Condition Site Selection By: Dan Garwood, Hank Matthys, Liberty Middle School, Valparaiso Purpose: In order to make students aware of current weather conditions of selected cities throughout the world and to introduce related Internet resources, students will research on-line weather data for cities around the world. Grade Levels: 6 & 7 Geography Standards addressed: 1) Using maps, tools and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. Materi...

2. Current Weather Condition Site Selection
LESSON PLAN: CURRENT WEATHER CONDITION SITE SELECTION BY: Dan Garwood, Hank Matthys, Liberty Middle School, Valparaiso Purpose: In order to make students aware of current weather conditions of selected cities throughout the world and to introduce related Internet resources, students will research on-line weather data for cities around the world. Grade Levels: 6 & 7 Geography Standards addressed: 1) Using maps, tools and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. Materi...

3. Grade 4 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 11, Lesson 3
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Oh, California Lesson at a Glance Chapter 11, Lesson 3: New Ways of Living (pp. 260-263) The Big Idea Framework Concept: Change Both suburbs and cities grew and changed after World War II. Have each student write one fact that pertains to the growth in California suburbs after World War II and another fact that pertains to the changes in the cities. Invite students to share their facts. The class can guess whether the fact relates to the city or the subu...

4. Math Forum: Measurement: Population
Population Hunt _____________________________________ Elementary School Materials Middle School Materials Contents _____________________________________ An Explorer Great Lakes Collaborative lesson by Laura Jewell in which students investigate and compare/order populations of US cities Download a Claris Works or Acrobat file from the Explorer site. Also information on grades, availability, description, curriculum, process skills, author, and publisher. Author: Laura Jewell Grade: 4-6 Description: Students are given a list of cities, asked to look up the population in the World Almanac,...

5. Africa - Not Just One Big Safari
Africa - Not Just One Big Safari Author: Melissa Murray Grade Level: Early Elementary Objective: Students will draw a picture of an African city that includes places similar to those found in U.S. cities. Materials: Somewhere in Africa - (book written by Ingrid Mennen and Niki Daly.) Map of Africa Pictures of major cities in South Africa (It is best if you have color pictures from books or magazines, but you can print pictures from this lesson plan if needed.) Large sheets of drawing paper for each studen...

6. A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
HGA Urban Index A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words Bernice M.U. Kihara July 2000 Grades: Adaptable Purpose: What kinds of people settle in cities? When we think about the top 25 cities in the world, different mental images of each city appear within our minds. This unit of study allows the student to take a look of how cities established themselves and why people settle in cities. Do our mental images match photographs of the cities? Focus Question...

7. Cargo Shipping
Cargo Shipping Goals: To work effectively in groups to achieve a common goal: Create the most efficient cargo shipping route. To successfully identify and locate port cities using latitude and longitude. To use the formula r=d/t (rate equals distance divided by time) to find distance or time. To use problem solving skills to create an efficient schedule for shipping goods. Content Areas: Social Studies - use of geography, latitude and longitude Math - r=d/t, solving for dista...

8. African Cities Are Modern
African Cities Are Modern Cape Town, South Africa by Cindi Arnold Grade Level: Early Elementary Objective: Students will create a mobile that compares the way of life in modern cities in Africa to rural villages in Africa. Materials needed: Pictures of modern cities in Africa, pictures of rural villages in Africa, map o...

9. Title: City Lesson Plan322
Title: City Lesson Plan322 Key Words: City, Urbanization National and State Standards: National, 3 State 11.10.2 Teaching Level: High Objective/Purpose: The students will: Describe the patterns and processes of urbanization Explain patterns of urban land use Materials: Goodes World Atlas or other comprehensive atlas Procedure: 1. Have the students get into pre-assigned learning groups. They are given a list of 5 major cities on one continent ( each group will be given a different continent) . Give them a few minutes to find these major cities in their atlases. They then will be asked...

10. Adventures in Time and Place Grade 5, Chapter 2: Play a Guess-the-Distance Game
...the United States Lesson 1: The American Land Web Link Description How far is it? is a service of Bali Online. It allows users to enter the names of any two places and read the distance between them. The service uses the University of Michigan Geographic Name Server and a supplementary database of world cities. Viewers may also call up a map showing the two places using the Xerox PARC Map Server. Student Objectives to play a game to develop the ability to estimate distances between U.S. cities to test their knowledge of distances between U.S. cities Before Online Activity Review the regions of the United...