Standard 5. Urban Growth

Lesson Plans and Activities:

• Aerial Photography and Vanishing Farmland – Ryan Swearingen – 5.1, 5.2
• Create a State – Ryan Swearingen – 5.1, 5.3, 5.5
• Defining Poverty:  Using Africa as an Example – Orvil Schlatter – 5.2, 5.5
• Immigration Unit – Phil Leswing
  • Take a Stand
  • Immigration to the United States by Region
  • Race vs. Ethnicity
  • Guest Speaker on Immigration
  • Drawing a City
  • Changing the Face of the Local Community
• Life on the Edge: Land Use, Food Supply and Economics in a Small African
  • Village – Population Reference Bureau
• Migration: Urban, Suburban, Rural – Deb DeLion – 5.3, 5.5
• Movement, Urbanization, and Diffusion of Music – Scott Royer – 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 11.3
  • Diffusion of Music Power Point
• Rivers and Capitals -Carole Mayrose
• The World Cup: It’s Geographic Impact on the World – Ernie Ruble – 5.2, 5.3, 5.5
• Tools of the Trade – Jill Grimes – Lesson 4 of 5. See the Resources section for all of the lessons in the Unit.
• Topographic – Urban Map Exercise – Owen Dwyer
• Urban Geography Game – Tim Dye – 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
  • Urban Game Power Point
  • Urban Game Student Response Sheet
• Using GIS to Understand Regional Layers – Joy Lohmeyer – Lessons III and IV of VII (An Introduction to Geography and History through Regions).
• Virtual Tour of a French City – William Valentine – 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
• Where Am I? – Deb DeLion – 5.3

Other Materials:

1. Amazing Transportation (a collection of images from Janis Coffman, Decatur Middle School; Decatur, IN)
2. Geography of Poverty: Case Study: Moçambique (Power Point by Dr. Rick Bein, IUPUI Department of Geography)
3. Historical Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production in the United States via the USGS
4. provides spatial data addressing the topic.
5. National Geographic web site connections to “Cities, Challenges for Humanity”, an article on urban issues in the future with photos and further resource connections.
6. Patterns and Processes (Power Point by Dr. Owen Dwyer, IUPUI Department of Geography)
7. Population Reference Bureau (www.prb.org)
8. Transportation and the Environment (Power Point by Dr. Bill Black, IU Department of Geography)
9. U.S. Census Bureau