7th Grade Social Studies
Name: Mr. Maicki
Week 5-6: Zombie Geography
Unit: Mental Mapping and Physical Characteristics
Students learn about mental maps and create a mental map (drawn from memory) of their local neighborhood, showing where they
would try to get supplies, and where they would avoid. They also learn skills to practice mental mapping the world and why having a
quality mental map is important. The main goal for this project is for students to understand the physical characteristics of locations.
Along the way they learn how these characteristics are formed or influenced as well as how they affect our perceptions. Students also
learn about human-environment interaction.
Essential Questions:
How do geographic thinkers use mental
maps to inform their thinking?
How does our physical environment
influence our lives or survival?
Where is the best place to build our
stronghold?
10 points
Learning Target
I can define what a mental map is and provide an example.
I can describe why mental maps are important.
I can Identify from memory and describe locations, patterns, and characteristics of physical and
human features.
Rate your own mastery of this learning target. Remember that your rating can change over time:
New To Me (1)
I Got This! (10)
I can compare Mental Map to actual map.
I can identify from memory with increasing detail and accuracy mental maps of a place or region.
I can add and label places that are important to me in the event of a zombie outbreak.
10 points
Rate your own mastery of this learning target. Remember that your rating can change over time:
New To Me (1)
I Got This! (10)
I can elaborate on the best location to build a settlement based on its physical characteristics.
I can define what physical characteristics are and identify basic landforms and climate.
I can analyze and explain patterns of physical features resulting from the interactions of Earth’s
physical processes
10 points
Rate your own mastery of this learning target. Remember that your rating can change over time:
New To Me (1)
I Got This! (10)
I can explain how the characteristics of different physical environments offer opportunities for
human activities.
I can explain how historical events were influenced by people’s perceptions of people, places,
regions, and environments
10 points
Rate your own mastery of this learning target. Remember that your rating can change over time:
New To Me (1)
I Got This! (10)
Vocabulary to Master:




Physical feature




regions





Human feature

format

environment


detail

accuracy
Mental map
climate





perceptions
rubric


persuasive

natural hazard
Physical process
landforms





climate

tectonic faults
analyze

crust

deposition

integrate

mantle

tilt

modification

core

solar constant
constraints
extensive
chemical erosion
weathering