5/12-5/16

Objective: Students will continue to understand the physical characteristics associated with East Africa by researching the animals and landscape of a Serengeti Safari.

Standards:

Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: Student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and regions their distinctive character.

5. Identifies ways technology or culture has influenced regions.

Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict

2. Explain how the spread of cultural elements result in distinctive cultural landscapes.

Procedure:

Day One-Day Five 5/12-5/16

“Thrill of Safari” Slideshow Presentations

KS History

5/12-5/16

Objective: Class time will be spent constructing the Historical Individuals/Events Tri-Fold Poster analyzing the 5W’s.

Standards:

Benchmark 4: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during the period of reform in Kansas (1880’s-1920’s)

Benchmark 5: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments in Kansas during the Great Depression and WWI (1930’s-1940’s)

Benchmark 6: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments in contemporary Kansas (Since 1950)

Procedure:

5/12-5/16

5W’s Historical Events/Individuals Poster Project