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Dr. David Lanegran is Director of the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education.

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Lessons Which Support the Minnesota Geography Standard--Spatial Organization: Culture

This page shows links to MAGE lessons which support the Spatial Organization Standard. "The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in the United States and the world."

Lessons may be viewed or downloaded from the table.

Related National Geography Standards:

PLACES AND REGIONS: STANDARD 4: The physical and human characteristics of places. STANDARD 5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity.
STANDARD 6: How culture and experience influence people's perception of places and regions.

Standard	Topic	Title	Overview	Author	Download Lesson
Spatial Organization: culture Benchmark 1 Students will use regions to analyze the locational patterns of culture groups at various scales.	Cultural Regionalization Grades 9-12	Regions, Regions,Regions!	The purpose of this lesson is to have the students define and analyze the concept of regions at various scales. Grades 9-12	Bob Salo	Download lesson in PDF
Spatial Organization: culture Benchmark 3 Students will describe the regional distribution of the major culture groups of the United States (as defined by the U. S. census) and recent patterns of change.	Race and Ethnicity patterns in the USA Grades 9-12	Race and Ethnicity in the United States	In this lesson students learn the U. S. Census Bureau’s definitions of race and ethnicity and compare race and ethnicity data from 1900,1950, and 2000 looking for patterns of change.	Kathryn Hartman	Download lesson in PDF Download all components of this lesson Note: components download is a compressed Stuffit! file.
Spatial Organization: culture Benchmark 4: Students will cite a variety of examples that illustrate how landscapes reflect the cultural characteristics of their inhabitants.	Identification and the location of different cultural groups of the United States Grades 9-12	Culture Regions of the U.S.	Students will look at a variety of images from a variety of sources to discern landscape clues about different cultural groups and how they alter their landscapes.	Jeanne Kranz	Download lesson in PDF

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