Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The first theme is Location, used in the sense that every place in the world has an exact location. The second theme is Place, somewhere that can be described by its sights, sounds, and smells and by the things that happen there.
Region is an area that has many different places in it, all of which are the same in some way.
Movement is the theme that deals with how people, goods, and ideas move throughout the world and how movement affects people. Finally, People and Places relates to how people and the environment interact. This volume, designed for grade 5, has students read a computer printout, which is included, and transfer the information onto a weather map. A discussion of population density features Orlando, Florida. In another lesson, students analyze a historical map of major events of the Revolutionary War and answer questions about the location of the events.