Geography Lesson Plans

Students explore U.S. geography by planning a trip with classmates. In this mapping lesson, students examine a U.S. map and identify the different destinations they wish to visit, specifically sports arenas. Students utilize a calculator to identify the mileage and time it will take before writing trip directions.

Students examine maps of Europe. In this geography skills lesson plan, students interpret several maps to determine the boundaries of the European Union and respond to assessment questions about the maps.

Learners explore Spain. In this geography skills lesson, students investigate a political map of Spain and record the names of states, capitals, and landforms. Learners then practice tagging the states, capitals, and landforms on blank physical maps.

Students use the five themes of geography. They utilize any media source - TV, radio, newspaper, magazines, etc. Using the five themes, they break down and analyze a news event and report to the class.

Ninth graders are introduced to an article in which falls into one of the five themes of geography. They pick their own article and summarize it to the class.

Learners participate in a geography game that involves teams creating clues about a secret location. They select a location, develop the clues, and take turns solving the clues written by the other teams.

Students develop maps, tables, graphs, charts, and diagrams to depict the geographic implications of current world events, and analyze major human conflicts to determine the role of physical and cultural geographic features in the causes, conflict, and outcomes. Pupils conduct research on the Internet or in the library to obtain data and information on the Gulf War that can be used to construct maps, tables, graphs, or diagrams representing changes in the geography of the Middle East.

Students create a map of their own neighborhood to show the relationships between the geography of the neighborhood and its economy and culture. They view and discuss an introductory video on how geographers study an area then go out into the neighborhood to create their maps.

Young scholars examine the descriptive science dealing with the surface of Earth, its division into continents and countries, climate, natural resources, inhabitants and industries of the various divisions and analyze the political geography of the Space Age.

Students imagine themselves on an island in the Caribbean to make postcards for their classmates and write letters about a vacation to their relatives. They view a video on the geography of the islands then research the tourism on one of the islands using the internet.