GEOGRAPHY WEBSITE PROTOCOL
Time Magazine: Daily Time
By: Peggy Lehman; 6/15/1997,
Carmel, IN
Site Address: http://www.pathfinder.com/@@vYHlnQUAGNIex6Wx/time/
Theme: Time Magazine: Daily Time
Grade level (s): 7-12
Annotation of Site:
The Time Magazine Online Web Site has a separate section
called Daily Time where students can research daily current news
happenings. This should be part of a daily/weekly classroom curriculum.
This type of activity enhances student reading abilities, technology skills,
geography, history, and comprehension of the term "interconnectedness"
or "interdependency".
Geography Standards addressed: (all 18 Geography
Standards are touched by this web site)
- #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
peoples, places and environments in a spatial context.
- #3) How to analyze the spatial organization of people,
places and environments on Earth’s surface.
- #4) The physical and human characteristics of places.
- #8) The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems
on Earth’s surface.
- #12) The processes, patterns, and functions of human
settlement.
- #13) How the forces of cooperation and conflict among
people influence the division and control of Earth’s surface.
- #14) How human actions modify the physical environment.
- #17) How to apply geography to interpret the past.
- #18) How to apply geography to interpret the present
and plan for the future.
Indiana Social Studies Proficiency:
- 1. Inquiry Skills
- 2. Current Events