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Lesson Topic: Five Themes of Geography

Lesson Objective: Students will be able to:
 * Identify the Five Themes of Geography
 * Understand how these themes apply to the State of Rhode Island
 * Demonstrate through a visual (poster) examples of the various themes as they relate to Rhode Island

Lesson One:
 * Using the text, we will read and discuss the various themes.
 * As we discuss each theme, students will create a foldable that gives a definition for each theme as well as an example.

Lesson Two:
 * Students will view two power points on the Five Themes of Geography to increase their understanding of the themes.

Lesson Three
 * Students are then divided into groups of two to three students and are assigned a theme.
 * Students prepare a poster on their assigned theme which is graded using the following rubric: