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Lesson Plans - Geography

Our Town’s Black Heritage

Students tour Boston’s Black Heritage Trail and create a black heritage tour of their own town.

Experiencing Slavery and Imagining Freedom

Students read a slave’s account of his or her life of slavery, then write accounts of what that person’s life might have been like after the Emancipation Proclamation.

“Water is Life”

Students will calculate the percentage of fresh water available for human use and explain why water is a
limited resource. By estimating and calculating the percent of available fresh water on Earth, students understand
that fresh water is limited and must be conserved and protected.

Rain, Friend or Foe?

This lesson will help students appreciate the complex relationships between various physical processes and the features they help create. It is essential that students understand the physical processes affecting the Earth’s surface and, using that knowledge, make intelligent predictions and decisions.

Splish Splash Water’s Journey to My Glass

What path did this water follow in order to become our drinking water? This lesson will explore the hydrologic cycle and water’s journey to our glass.