Essential Questions
- How can we use geographers' tools to help us understand why people live the way they live?
- What role do resources play in determining where people settle?
- What makes places unique and different?
- How does where we live influence how we live?
Enduring Understandings
- Different maps have different purposes and provide us with useful information.
- Countries have a variety of resources that determine where people settle.
- Geographic location determines types of resources and how people use them.
- Where people live influences how they live.
Students Will Know...
- Cardinal directions and be able to locate the continents.
- The difference between physical, political, and resource maps.
- How to look for the features of a country.
- Compare and contrast the features of 2 different countries.
- The 3 different resources, namely: natural, capital, and man-made.
- People have patterns of settlement and that people often settle near major resources.
