ELA and Geography
Common Core English Language Arts And Geography Connections
- Although not 'lock-step' with Tennessee ELA Standards, National Geographic has created an alignment of the Common Core English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects to the Geography for Life: National Geography Standards, Second Edition.
| interconnections-common-core.pdf |
Google Lit(erature) Trips
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." — Mark Twain
Google Lit Trips are award winning supplementary reading resources where students become virtual traveling companions traveling right alongside characters in stories the stories they are reading. The internationally recognized Google Lit Trips Project provides resources dedicated to doing just that for stories commonly taught in grades K-12.
American Literature GeoInquiries
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Use maps to enhance teaching about plot lines, authors’ lives, and the historical context surrounding some of the most important and commonly read stories in high school American literature classes. For more GeoInquiry resources, see the Guide "Getting to Know GeoInquiries". For different subjects, see the "GeoInquiries Collections".
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Going Beyond Maps and Globes:
Exploring Children’s Literature Using the Five Geographic Themes
This article (with its accompanying pullout) focuses specifically on ways to use the concepts and relationships articulated
in the five fundamental themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions) to add
depth to children’s experiences in reading and writing. Embedded within these themes are specific vocabulary, concepts, and
skills that are helpful for students to learn; but these themes also reveal a rich web of relationships between geography and life
that can support students in making meaning, whether considering a fictional world or our real world.
in the five fundamental themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions) to add
depth to children’s experiences in reading and writing. Embedded within these themes are specific vocabulary, concepts, and
skills that are helpful for students to learn; but these themes also reveal a rich web of relationships between geography and life
that can support students in making meaning, whether considering a fictional world or our real world.
| exploring_children’s_literature_using_the_5_geographic_themes.pdf |
| exploring_children’s_literature_using_the_5_geographic_themes_pullout.pdf |