Big City Traveling

Lesson Author

Tony Lotzer

Grades: 5-6

Lesson Summary

Students, acting as travel agents, will each select and advertise one large city that is located anywhere in the world. They will learn about their city by using Google Earth, other texts, and Encyclopedia Britannica online (http://www.britannica.com/). They will then create a travel brochure educating others about what their city has to offer. Creating a travel brochure will allow students to learn more about how each city is a place with physical and human characteristics. Travel brochures can be made on the computer or by hand.

Literature Connection

Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacy Schuett

This short story describes what is happening in different places around the world at a specific time in the day. In addition to learning about time zones, children are introduced to the varied lifestyles of people living around the world.

N.C.S.S. Standards

  • Students will interpret, use and distinguish various representations of the Earth by using maps, globes, and photographs.

  • Students will use appropriate resources, data sources, and geographic tools such as atlases, data bases, grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps to generate, manipulate, and interpret information.

Concepts and Skills

place, human characteristics, physical characteristics

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

  1. use technology to locate and identify important human and physical characteristics of a large city in the world.

  2. describe and advertise a city in a creative way.

Google Skills Needed

  • use the "fly to" feature

  • zoom in and out

  • use layers

Step-by-Step Teaching Procedures (PDF document)