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Where Is the Community?

Using the geographic information provided and other clues, identify the home country (Canada, Tunisia, Peru, India or Ukraine) of the community depicted in each image.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 3.1.2.2 - How does daily life reflect quality of life in the communities (e.g., employment, transportation, roles of family members)?
Specific Outcome 3.1.3.1 - Where, on a globe and/or map, are the communities in relation to Canada?
Specific Outcome 3.1.3.4 - How does the physical geography influence the human activities in the communities (e.g., availability of water, climate)?
Specific Outcome 3.1.4.1 - What are the main goods and services produced by the communities studied (i.e., agricultural activities, manufacturing activities)?
Specific Outcome 3.1.4.2 - What goods and services do the communities import from and export to other parts of the world?
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.1 - Students will create and use a simple map to locate communities studied in the world
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.2 - Students will use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps and globes
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.3 - Students will apply the concept of relative location to determine locations of people and places
Specific Outcome 3.S.3.4 - Students will apply the terms hemisphere, poles, equator
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.1 - Students will make connections between cause-and-effect relationships from information gathered from varied sources
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.2 - Students will evaluate whether information supports an issue or a research question
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.7 - Students will organize information from more than one source
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.8 - Students will process information from more than one source to retell what has been discovered
Specific Outcome 3.S.7.9 - Students will draw conclusions from organized information
Specific Outcome 3.S.9.1 - Students will compare information on the same issue or topic from print media, television, photographs and the Internet
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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