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Standard/Historical Skills and Processes
Chronological reasoning requires understanding processes of change and continuity over time, which means assessing similarities and differences between historical periods and between the past and present.
Thinking within the discipline involves the ability to identify, compare, and evaluate multiple perspectives about a given event to draw conclusions since there are multiple points of view about events and issues.
Historians and Social Scientists gather, interpret, and use evidence to develop claims and answer historical, economic, geographical, and political questions and communicate their conclusions.
Thinking within the discipline involves the ability to analyze relationships among causes and effects and to create and support arguments using relevant evidence.
Learning Target
I can explain and apply the Historical Thinking Skills and geography skills to my life.
Chronological reasoning requires understanding processes of change and continuity over time, which means assessing similarities and differences between historical periods and between the past and present.
Thinking within the discipline involves the ability to identify, compare, and evaluate multiple perspectives about a given event to draw conclusions since there are multiple points of view about events and issues.
Historians and Social Scientists gather, interpret, and use evidence to develop claims and answer historical, economic, geographical, and political questions and communicate their conclusions.
Thinking within the discipline involves the ability to analyze relationships among causes and effects and to create and support arguments using relevant evidence.
Learning Target
I can explain and apply the Historical Thinking Skills and geography skills to my life.
Instructions
Use the Article - The 5 Themes of Geography - Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region to help your learning about the study of geography.
There is a video at the end of this article that will help you hear and see what these themes are.
Do - In your notes, use each of the 5 Themes of Geography to describe where you live. Apply the knowledge of where you live with how they fit into the 5 Themes of Geography. Some of these will be easier to do so reach out to your classmates if you need help with your thinking.
Additional Resources
Website - What Geographers Do - Careers
Use the Article - The 5 Themes of Geography - Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region to help your learning about the study of geography.
There is a video at the end of this article that will help you hear and see what these themes are.
Do - In your notes, use each of the 5 Themes of Geography to describe where you live. Apply the knowledge of where you live with how they fit into the 5 Themes of Geography. Some of these will be easier to do so reach out to your classmates if you need help with your thinking.
Additional Resources
Website - What Geographers Do - Careers