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Living Through a Drought: Weather, Geography, Afghanistan, Maps Lesson Plan

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Living Through a Drought: Weather, Geography, Afghanistan, Maps

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Students practice map-reading skills. Using a drought map of Afghanistan from National Geographic's Afghanistan: Land in Crisis site, students study how to recognize drought, where drought can occur, and how drought affects the people who live there.

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droughts, afghanistan, map skills

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3rd - 5th

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Social Studies & History

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