lution ~ use KWL charts, for example — Grade 5
Communities ~ For example: What can you do in a suburban area? What can you do in an urban area? What can you do in a rural area? — Grade 2
Graphic Organizers — Circle maps, Tree maps
Interactive worksheets ~ There are Websites that allow you to create your own worksheets which can then be printed out. Why not create the worksheet for use on the SMARTboard? It could be used as a guided practice lesson or independent activity at the “SMARTboard Center” in your classroom. Students could work in pairs and check each other’s work or you could provide answer sheets for self-checking.
Students become familiar with maps and settlement patterns of Latin America, understand why people settle near coastlines, locate a geographic feature in an atlas and transfer it onto a blank map, and learn settlement patterns in Latin America.