A Place for Geography in the Common Core Why? How? And Where? A Place for Geography in the Common Core Dr. Ellen J. Foster School of Education University of Mississippi

Overview Why? How? Where? Strands of ELA/Themes of Geography Common Core for ELA and P21 Skills How? Using the 5 themes to highlight Texas history Using the 5 themes and 6 elements to enhance student understanding of literary works Where? K-6 6-8 9-12

Strands of the Language Arts Five Themes of Geography Reading Writing Listening Speaking Five Themes of Geography Location Place Regions Movement Human-Environment Interactions

Common Core & P21 Skills By 4th Grade, students are to use informational text to support research & analysis By 12th grade, students are to use classical and contemporary sources to analyze changes in the environment over time.

Texas History Location – Absolute/Relative location Place – What’s there (physical and cultural) Culturally Mexican Regions – Central Texas, edge of Texas Hill Country Movement – Runaway Scrape Human-Environment Interaction – Battle of San Jacinto

http://www.amazon.com/Remember-Historic-building-entirely-surrounded/dp/B004J67S42 1922 photo – Saved from sale to a hotel firm in 1903 by Miss Clara Driscoll of Corpus Christi, Tx.

Location

Location

Place

Place

Place

Place

Place “Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful School in New England, and even on this dismal afternoon its power was asserted. It is the beauty of small areas of order  --a large yard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses--living together in contentious harmony.”

Regions

Regions

Regions

Movement

Movement

Movement

Movement

Movement

Movement

Movement

Movement

Movement

Human/Environment Interactions

Human/Environment Interactions

Lessons/Activities Create Your Own Place Using the 5 Themes, create a realistic setting in creative writing (visual product required) Draw the Missing Map Using clues from the story, draw the map that “should” have been included Character Analysis Using geographic knowledge and skills, do the characters fit in time and place? Found/Headline Poems Using main ideas to “find” geography in informational text

Literature

Links Google Lit Trips National Council for Geographic Education The Geography Teacher Finding Geography Using Found Poetry Journal of Geography Association of American Geographers ArcGIS On-line

Literature