Knowledge/Skill Building

🗺️ Maps, Photos, and Data Detectives

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Content Expertise Effective Communication CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.1 Submission Required

In small groups, students rotate through artifact stations with water maps, crop region maps, Silicon Valley images, shipping data charts, and short captioned news clips. Using a teacher-modeled note-catcher, they identify patterns, infer why industries developed in certain places, and compare at least two sources. Vocabulary such as resource, perspective, evidence, and inference is introduced in context.

Plan day
Day 2
Duration
45 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps