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