"Literacy: Linking Geography Through Children's Trade Books"
Bernice Kihara, Solomon Elementary (Bernice_Kihara@notes.k12.hi.us) Connie Mark, Waiau Elementary (conniem@kalama.doe.hawaii.edu) Mary Frances Higuchi, Hawaii Geographic Alliance (mfhiguch@hawaii.edu) Phone: 956-7698 Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/hga C0NTENT STANDARD WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS: GCS1: Students use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments. GRADE CLUSTER BENCHMARK K-3 Grade Cluster Benchmark: Read and make geographic representations (i.e., maps, globes, graphs, charts, models) to locate and describe locations, distances, directions, and scale. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Performance Standards: The student will: 1. Create a map that includes the title, orientation, date, author's name, legend and scale 2. Show the selected features (man made and/or natural) of the environment being studied. 3. Use geographical terms to describe a specific location and human/physical characteristics of a place. BOOK TITLES Young Geographers, Marcia S. Freeman. Rand McNally. Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Learn about maps.
"Me on the Map" Book Local to global Tie in with "Fire Safety" book Sing the song. Reading, sequencing Cardinal directions game Visual Representation Position words, Vocabulary of places Circle Map Dramatization Choral reading Sequencing Passport with scale and miles Location - countries Using a recipe and book as a model, create own story.
Rosie's Walk, Pat Hutchins
Gifts, JoEllen Bogart Where Is Papa Now? Celeste Conway
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Marjorie Priceman
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Locate countries where ingredients came from. Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey A Bird's Eye View, Marcia Freeman. Rand McNally The Armadillo from Amarillo, Lynne Cherry As the Crow Flies, Gail Hartman C0NTENT STANDARD PLACES & REGIONS: GCS:2 Students understand how distinct physical and human characteristics shape places and regions. GRADE CLUSTER BENCHMARK K-3 Grade Cluster Benchmark: Use physical and human characteristics to compare and contrast places and regions locally and globally. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Performance Standards: The student will: 1. Describe the similarities and differences of the physical characteristics (landforms, climate) of a community with another. 2. Describe the similarities and differences of the human characteristics (landmarks, population, products) of a community with another. 3. Show how the physical and human BOOK TITLES This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie. Paintings by Kathy Jacobsen. Compare with Chibi, Mapping Story board - use actual photos of places mentioned in the book. Aerial view and crosssection pictures, elevation cards, etc.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Visual images of physical and human characteristics. Use with other pictures. Use with "Ziplocks" to apply images of a place. Gifts of different countries - Human characteristics Uniqueness of place Use book as a model 2 to show unique physical and human characteristics of a place/region Apply TODALS
Gifts, JoEllen Bogart Where Is Papa Now? Celeste Conway
Possum Magic, Mem Fox Use Gifts and Where Is Papa Now? to show unique items from other places.
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characteristics of a place/region determine the uniqueness of a place/region
Material World, A Global Family Portrait, Peter Menzel. Book and posters "GeoMystery" Electronic Atlas www.hawaii.edu/hga A Trip to Mini Town, JoAnne Nelson, Young Explorers, Modern Curriculum Press. Where Do You Live? Marcia S. Freeman. Rand McNally. Everybody Cooks Rice, Norah Dooley.
Graphic Organizers Thinking Skills Technology
Compare/contrast communites
C0NTENT STANDARD PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: GCS:3 Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface and create, sustain, and modify the ecosystems.
GRADE CLUSTER BENCHMARK K-3 Grade Cluster Benchmark: Give simple explanations of Earth's physical systems (water, air and land) physical features, and ecosystems.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Performance Standards: The student will: 1. Describe and show the earth's physical systems. 2. Identify and describe landforms and waterway terms e.g., mountains, valleys, rivers, streams. Etc. 3. Describe the characteristics of an ecosystem.
BOOK TITLES Follow the River, Lydia Dabcovich Check HGA website for A bibliography of river Books that can be used. www.hawaii.edu/hga/ga w01/Literature.html Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Jeannie Baker
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES "Follow the River" book Visual representations Vocabulary that pertain to rivers, i.e., source, mouth, mill, island, bridge, village, town, harbor. Circle Book (Human Systems and Environment & Society are tied into this book.) Landforms, waterways, and a few ecosystems.
Coast to Coast, Marcia S. Freeman, Rand
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McNally. Geography from A to Z, a Picture Glossary, Jack Knowlton. C0NTENT STANDARD HUMAN SYSTEMS: GCS:4 Students analyze how people organize their activities on Earth through their analysis of human populations, cultural mosaics, economic interdependence, settlement, and conflict and cooperation GRADE CLUSTER BENCHMARK K-3 Grade Cluster Benchmark: Examine and explain the factors that influence where people migrate and serttle. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Performance Standards: The student will: 1. Identify factors that influence where people migrate and settle, e.g., natural resources, major waterways, physical features, natural hazards, connections, population, climate. 2. Determine the reasons why people settle in a particular place. 3. Show how the factors determine where people migrate and settle. BOOK TITLES Coming to America, the Story of Immigration, Betsy Maestro. Windows, Jeannie Baker Living Near a River, Allan Fowler. Why People Move, Margaret McNamara. Rand McNally.
Vocabulary building. 3-D model of physical features
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Use night lights map to show where people settle. Discuss reasons why people may move. Use city maps to locate settlements. Look for patterns. Study cities and where people settle.
C0NTENT STANDARD ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY: GCS:5 Students demonstrate stewardship of Earth's resources through the understanding of society
GRADE CLUSTER BENCHMARK K-3 Grade Cluster Benchmark: Explain how people depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment in their community, and
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Performance Standards: The student will: 1. Identify the earth's resources within land, air, water. 2. Describe how and why people use earth's
BOOK TITLES Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Jeannie Baker Peter Panini's Children's Guide, The Living Treasures of the Hawaiian Islands, The
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Watershed, forests, water as resources Alien (Introduced) Species vs. Native species -- how introduced species can
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and the physical environment.
demonstrate stewardship of a local environment.
resources to meet their needs. 3. Describe how people change the physical environment. 4. Create and implement a plan to sustain and preserve a local environment.
Story of Hawaii's Native Plants and Animals. Stacey Kaopuiki. Hawaii's Natural Forests, Katherine Orr and David Boynton.
become invasive. Origin, pathways, established areas, impact, and solutions. Samples, articles
Native Animals of Hawaii Coloring Book, Patrick Ching Exotic Animals in Hawaii Coloring Book, Patrick Ching. Endangered Animals of Hawaii Coloring Book. Patrick Ching. Beautiful Birds of Hawaii Coloring Book. Patrick Ching. Rosy Dock, Jeannie Baker
How native species become endangered.
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