You will then report back to the company's board of directors on what you discovered about the city and if you recommend that the House Company starts building houses in that city. Within this task there are a series of activities that break this problem down into doable parts. Explain the relationship between the physical setting of a community and its ability to satisfy the wants and needs of its people. The curriculum guide was developed to provide natural connections between social studies and science as students examine several world cities and the geographic and economic factors that contribute to their growth and development. If you do not teach 3 rd grade in Baltimore County, Maryland, there are still plenty of ways to use this WebQuest.
Parts are applicable for the study of geography, economics, and social studies.
The activities in this WebQuest rotate between concrete activities to make the concepts real to the student, online lab activities, and collaborative discussions in teams. Feel free to include, exclude, expand, or simplify the activities to best suit your students. Have the students read the Introduction and Quest of the WebQuest. Have students identify the Form, Audience, Topic and Purpose of the product they will produce for this task. Have students create a list of questions that they might need to answer as they complete the WebQuest.