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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: Essential Skills

This page shows links to MAGE lessons which support the MN Essential Skills Geography standard. "The student will be able to analyze patterns of locations, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities."

Lessons may be viewed or downloaded from the table.
Related National Geography Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective
2: How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context

Skills Benchmarks	Topic	Title	Overview	Author	Download Lesson
Essential Skills Benchmark 1 Students will demonstrate the ability to obtain geographic information from a variety of print and electronic sources.	Students use Graphic Information Systems in Geography Grades 9-12	Introduction to the practical application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).	This tutorial will give students a working knowledge of how computer generated, municipal data can be a useful tool in understanding physical, cultural, environmental aspects of space.	Sharon Marcotte	Download tutorial in PDF
Essential Skills Benchmark 2 Students will make inferences and draw conclusions about the character of places based on a comparison of maps, aerial photos, and other images.	Land Use Grades 9-12	Land Use Over Time	Students will evaluate different land uses over time using a particular plot of land determined by the teacher. Students will be looking at topographic maps and aerial photos using old maps provided from their local library or they can use the topographic maps located on the website at Johnson High School.	Kelly Swanson	Download lesson in PDF
Essential skills Benchmark 5 Students will explain the internal spatial structure of cities in the United States.	Immigration to US cities Grades 9-12	Immigrant neighborhoods and internal structure of cities.	This lesson is designed to enable students to learn what correlation means, and to analyze the correlation between immigrant populations and various demographic variables that describe the geography of North American Cities.	Dr. David Lanegran	Download lesson in PDF Download all Excel spreadsheets Note: worksheets are compressed using Stuffit!

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