Objective: Students will learn more about cities and understand the factors that make up a city. Students will learn about the positives and negatives of a city and identify those characteristics.
Compare: Students will look at the two paintings side by side. What do you notice? What is similar? What is different? Are the characteristics positive? Negative?
Share: Students will share their ideas with each other and create a class chart. Students will use this chart to find a city in Wisconsin that is represented by the characteristics found in the paintings.
Present: Students will then find any city in the United States to research that represents these same characteristics. Students will present their research to the class.
Standards:
- SS.Geog2.d.4-5:
Summarize positive and negative factors of cities.
Identify the location and patterns of cities within our state and country.
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