Overview of Lesson		Secondary Questions
Connection to the Curriculum,Standards and Skills		Materials
Grade Level		Body of Lesson - Procedure & Assessment
Purpose of Lesson		Activity One
Primary Geographic Question		Assessment of Lesson

Overview of the Lesson

Because latitude influences climate, there is a relationship between latitude and resources associated with biomes.  Common resources within a latitudinal region promotes patterns of human activity.  Progress in technology impacts the availability and use of resources over time.  Such changes will then affect human activity.  Some patterns of resources may be more strongly connected to plate tectonics than to climate.

Geography Standards

Standard 15:  How physical systems affect human systems.

Standard 16:  The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.

Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies Standards

Standard 5:  Locate selected countries, cities, and physical features on maps, globes, and satellites.

Standard 13:  Describe ecosystems and explain why they differ from place to place.

Standard 14:  Identify changes over time in an ecosystem resulting from human intervention.

Geographic Skills

Explain how the characteristics of different physical environments affect human activities.  Describe and analyze world patterns of resource distribution and utilization.

Grade 7

To identify resources in high, middle, and low latitudes.  To determine the effect of the latitudinal positioning on human activities and development.  to compare resources in the same area and determine if the availability of resources in the area has changed, and if so to determine what if any, effect this might have on the human activities and development in these areas.

How have latitudinal environments affected human development and culture?

How has the modern definition of resources in these areas changed?

How might this affect human activity and development in the future of these regions?

• Poster Board
• Glue
• Pictures (magazines, Internet, laser disk, etc.)
• Atlases
• Blank World Map
• Blank Political World Map
• Markers
• Crayons
• Colored Pencils
• Scissors

Activity One

• Break students into groups of three but no more than five.
• Assign each group a latitudinal region.
• Have students determine what the traditional definition of resource might have been in their latitudinal region.
• Have students do research to find examples of traditional resources and gather photos or drawings to go on a collage.
• Allow students time to work on a collage, but set a limit on that time to keep students on task.
• Ask each group to present and explain their collage.
• Now give students a blank world map and have them color the latitudinal region they have been assigned.
• Facilitate in a discussion on how the definition of resources might change over time.
• Using an atlas, with resource maps, have each group identify modern resources in their region.
• Provide each group with a blank political world map and have them map the modern resources they found.
• Students should make a graphic organizer to compare traditional and modern resources.  this may be of any type they choose.
• Have each group discuss whether the definition of resources has changed in their region and if so how.
• Now instruct each group to determine what effect this might have on the development of human activities now and in the future.
• have students present their findings to the rest of the class and allow discussion on what the other groups feel about their findings.

Assessment will be based on group effort, collages, map work and presentations.  before the project starts, a rubric will be developed by both the teacher and the students with group self-evaluation playing a major part in their grade.  Other groups will evaluate each presentation with comments.