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Lesson Plan: Five Themes of Geography

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After learning the five themes of geography, learners take an Internet trip and categorize information found into one of the five themes. They answer five questions about the places explored. That is about all there is to this lesson; it is vague.

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5th - 7th
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Social Studies & History
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