Climate and how people live: 6th to 8th people & places
Climate, land and how people live: climate zones, and homes built for the place. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: climate, land and how people live: climate zones, and homes built for the place.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: Why is it hot near the equator and cold near the poles?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: climate and how people live.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Homes Around the World (https://peabody.kids/world/cultures/cultures-homes-around-the-world)
- Learn: Climate Zones (https://peabody.kids/world/geography/geography-climate-zones)
- Visit: Explore: Climates on a 3D globe (https://peabody.kids/planet)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about climate and how people live, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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