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7/2006 DIOCESE OF HARRISBURG GEOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA Red Italics – Reference to Diocesan History Outcome: The student knows and understands the geography of Pennsylvania. Assessment: The student will apply the geographic themes of location, place and region to Pennsylvania today. Skills/Objectives Suggested Teaching/Learning Strategies Suggested Assessment Strategies The student will be able to: 1a. Using student desk maps, locate and highlight the 1a. On a blank map of the U.S., outline the state of state, trace rivers and their tributaries and circle Pennsylvania, label the capital, hometown and two 1. Locate and identify the state of Pennsylvania, its major cities. largest cities. capital, major cities and his hometown. On a blank map of the U.S. outline the state of 1b. Using the globe, determine the latitude and longitude Pennsylvania; within the state of Pennsylvania, outline of the state. the Diocese of Harrisburg. Label the city where the cathedral is located. 1c. Using a Pennsylvania highway map, design a road tour visiting major Pennsylvania cities. 1b. Using the desk map, identify the latitude line closest Using a Pennsylvania highway map with the counties to the hometown and two other towns of the same within the Diocese of Harrisburg marked, do the parallel of latitude. Identify the longitude nearest the following: first, in each county, identify a city or town state capital and two other towns on the same with a Catholic church; then design a road tour visiting meridian of longitude. each of these cities or towns. Using a desk map, place marks on the most-western, the most-northern, and the most-eastern tips of the Diocese 1d. Using a PA desk map as a reference, enlarge the of Harrisburg and draw a line along the southern border map on a paved area using colored sidewalk chalk of the Diocese. Next, identify the latitude lines closest to and label the capital, students’ home town, border the northern and southern borders of the Diocese and the states, rivers, etc. longitude lines closest to the northern and southern Using a desk map of the Diocese of Harrisburg as a borders of the Diocese. reference, enlarge the map on a paved area using colored sidewalk chalk; label each county. 1e. Using a PA desk map that includes county boundaries, students working in cooperative groups will identify counties coming under the categories of animal names, presidential names, bodies of water, Indian names, famous persons, objects and other places. Using a PA desk map that includes county boundaries, identify the counties within the Diocese of Harrisburg. Use crayons to color in the counties of the Diocese. 1f. Using a prepared grid map with major cities plotted, but not labeled, students will name the coordinates for given cities as indicated by the teacher. 1 7/2006 DIOCESE OF HARRISBURG GEOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA Red Italics – Reference to Diocesan History Outcome: The student knows and understands the geography of Pennsylvania. Assessment: The student will apply the geographic themes of location, place and region to Pennsylvania today. Skills/Objectives Suggested Teaching/Learning Strategies Suggested Assessment Strategies The student will be able to: 2a. Using a student desk map, trace the states 2a. Create a graphic organizer of concentric bordering Pennsylvania and circle their circles to illustrate proximate/distant 2. Describe the relative location of names. locations. Place the hometown in the Pennsylvania and of his community. Using a county map of Pennsylvania, circle the names center circle, in the next circle illustrate of counties bordering the Diocese of Harrisburg. nearby features, towns and attractions, in the outer circle show sites at a greater 2b. Using a large U.S. map trace and cut states to distance from the hometown. make a puzzle featuring Pennsylvania and its neighbors. 2b. Create a “County Cube” to summarize facts Using outline maps of each of the fifteen counties in the Diocese of Harrisburg, cut out the counties to learned about the PA counties. Include the make a fifteen-piece puzzle. Next, assemble the puzzle name of the county, an outline map, natural parts to form a map of the Diocese. resource(s), a point of interest, a famous person and a landform or body of water. 2c. Trace the state of Pennsylvania on art paper; mark Create a “Diocese of Harrisburg Cube” to the local community with a symbol of choice and summarize facts learned about the Diocese. using illustrations show neighboring features, Include the name of the Diocese, the counties in towns and attractions. the Diocese, an outline map of the Diocese, the city in which Saint Patrick Cathedral is 2d. Conduct an interview with someone who has lived situated, and a body of water within the in another PA city or county. Prepare a report, based on the interview, including a photograph of Diocese. person, and a map showing a route connecting the student’s hometown and the city of the person who was interviewed. Conduct an interview with a priest. Ask him to list all the cities and towns where he has served in the Diocese of Harrisburg. Using a map of the Diocese, identify all the cities and towns on his list. Show a route for a road tour visit to each of the cities and towns. Prepare a report, based on the interview, including a photograph of the priest and the map. 2 7/2006 DIOCESE OF HARRISBURG GEOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA Red Italics – Reference to Diocesan History Outcome: The student knows and understands the geography of Pennsylvania. Assessment: The student will apply the geographic themes of location, place and region to Pennsylvania today. Skills/Objectives Suggested Teaching/Learning Strategies Suggested Assessment Strategies The student will be able to: 3a. Construct a raised relief map (e.g. papier mache, 3. Create a travel brochure illustrating modeling clay, Styrofoam) to model the major vacation activities appropriate to each 3. Locate and describe Pennsylvania’s major landforms and water systems of the state. geographic region in Pennsylvania. geographic regions (Atlantic Coastal Plain, Include travel directions from hometown Piedmont, Ridge and Valley, Allegheny 3b. Working in cooperative groups, use a with the names of major cities you will Plateau, and Lake Plain), landforms (e.g. transparency on the overhead projector to trace pass, interstate highways you will travel on Appalachian Mountains, Laurel Highlands), one of the five geographic regions on poster and water systems (Allegheny River, board. Write, illustrate and present a description and the rivers you will cross. Also include Monongahela River, Ohio River, Susquehanna of the distinguishing physical characteristics of a map of the region. River, Delaware River and Lake Erie.) the region. Assemble all of the pieces to form a Design a travel brochure for visits to 5 churches in large map of the state. the Diocese of Harrisburg. Explain the reasons for (Group activity) Use a transparency on the the choices. Include travel directions, beginning overhead projector to trace the state of PA with its and ending with your hometown. Mention major five geographic regions on poster board. Next, use cities on the route as well as rivers that the traveler a transparency on the overhead projector to trace will cross. Include a map of the Diocese of the outline of the Diocese of Harrisburg. Be careful Harrisburg with the route marked. to place the map of the Diocese in its correct location. Design a travel brochure for visits to the sites of 5 important events in Catholic history in the Diocese 3c. Locate the Allegheny River, Monongahela of Harrisburg. Explain the reasons for the choices. River, Ohio River, Susquehanna River and Include travel directions, beginning and ending with Delaware River on a desk map. Select one river your hometown. Mention major cities on the route and using the map and other sources keep a as well as rivers that the traveler will cross. Include journal of places seen on an imaginary trip on a map of the Diocese of Harrisburg with the route that river. marked. Using a desk map, locate the rivers that pass through the Diocese of Harrisburg. Select one river and, using the map and other sources, make an imaginary trip down the river. Keep a journal in which you identify the Catholic churches within 10 miles of the river. 3 7/2006 DIOCESE OF HARRISBURG GEOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA Red Italics – Reference to Diocesan History Outcome: The student knows and understands the geography of Pennsylvania. Assessment: The student will apply the geographic themes of location, place and region to Pennsylvania today. Skills/Objectives Suggested Teaching/Learning Strategies Suggested Assessment Strategies The student will be able to: 4a. Teacher guides students through the 4. Given a population, landform, and resource 4. Read and interpret climate, population, interpretation of the average annual map of Pennsylvania, relocate 500,000 new resource and other special purpose maps temperature map. Distribute blank maps immigrants, giving reasons for your choice of of Pennsylvania. and information to color code an average site of settlement. Note: Atlas of Pennsylvania or other annual precipitation map. Compare the Try one of these websites: sources may be used two maps. www.pasc.met.psu.edu/PA_climatologist.index.php Find the average annual temperature and the www.atmos.millersville.edu average annual precipitation for each county in the Diocese of Harrisburg. Record the data on a blank outline map of the Diocese and also display the information on a color-coded bar graph in which one color is used for temperature and another for precipitation. 4b. Using a blank snowfall map, create a map key, color code each zone according to student predictions. Present actual data. Compare and discuss. Using research, find the population of each county in the Diocese of Harrisburg.