STANDARD VS.1b The student will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis, economic decision making, and responsible citizenship by b) analyzing the impact of geographic features on people, places, and events to support an understanding of events in Virginia history; Essential Understandings Analyzing involves identifying the important elements of geographic sources. Geographic information supports the process of inquiry into the nature of events in Virginia history. The physical geography of a location had a direct impact on the lives of people in Virginia and how they adapted to their environment. Geographic information may be acquired from a variety of sources, such as GIS (geographic information systems) field work satellite images photographs maps, globes charts and graphs databases primary sources diagrams. Geographic themes include location place regions movement human-environment interaction. Experiences may include but are not limited to the following: Use information from a topographical map to locate and determine the characteristics of the five geographic regions of Virginia. Create a symbol to represent each region. Examine an early map of Virginia. Use a hand lens or magnifying glass to study the map symbols, features, words, and artistic elements used by the mapmaker. Examine how early mapmakers constructed maps as they explored. Compare and contrast how early maps were constructed to how maps are constructed today. Analyze how the physical geography of Virginia affected various cultural groups. Analyze the impact of rivers on transportation, food supply, exploration, and the location of settlements. Five themes of geography Location: Defined according to its position on the is it? earth’s surface; where Place: Locations having distinctive features that give them meaning and character that differ from other locations; what is it like? Region: A unit on the surface that has unifying characteristics; how are places similar or different? earth’s Movement: The way people, products, and information move from one place to another; how do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another? Human-Environment Interaction: The relationship between people and their environment; how do people relate to the physical world?
STANDARD VS.1b The student will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis, economic decision making, and responsible citizenship by b) analyzing the impact of geographic features on people, places, and events to support an understanding of events in Virginia history; Essential Understandings Analyzing involves identifying the important elements of geographic sources. Geographic information supports the process of inquiry into the nature of events in Virginia history. The physical geography of a location had a direct impact on the lives of people in Virginia and how they adapted to their environment. Geographic information may be acquired from a variety of sources, such as GIS (geographic information systems) field work satellite images photographs maps, globes charts and graphs databases primary sources diagrams. Geographic themes include location place regions movement human-environment interaction. Experiences may include but are not limited to the following: Use information from a topographical map to locate and determine the characteristics of the five geographic regions of Virginia. Create a symbol to represent each region. Examine an early map of Virginia. Use a hand lens or magnifying glass to study the map symbols, features, words, and artistic elements used by the mapmaker. Examine how early mapmakers constructed maps as they explored. Compare and contrast how early maps were constructed to how maps are constructed today. Analyze how the physical geography of Virginia affected various cultural groups. Analyze the impact of rivers on transportation, food supply, exploration, and the location of settlements. Five themes of geography Location: Defined according to its position on the earth’s surface; where is it? Place: Locations having distinctive features that give them meaning and character that differ from other locations; what is it like? Region: A unit on the earth’s surface that has unifying characteristics; how are places similar or different? Movement: The way people, products, and information move from one place to another; how do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another? Human-Environment Interaction: The relationship between people and their environment; how do people relate to the physical world?