American History, 5th Grade Social Studies
GEOGRAPHY: Physical and Cultural Systems
Standard: Students develop a spatial understanding of Earth’s surface and the processes that shape it, the connections between people and places, and the relationship between man and his environment.
The World in Spatial Terms
Benchmark: G-1A-M3 organizing and displaying information about the location of geographic features and places by using mental mapping skills; (1, 2, 3, 4)
GLE 5. Translate a mental map into sketch form to illustrate relative location, size, and distances between places (G-1A-M3)