INVESTIGATING ADDRESSES ON THE NET
E. A. Vrabac
St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Overland Park, Kansas
 
 
Overview:
During the 1993 flooding of the Mississippi River Drainage Basin the Kansas City Watershed District was impacted by the tremendous amount of water that entered Lower Republican-Kansas River Basin. The goal of this lesson is for students to investigate selected web sites that will provide information about their home state and enhance their understanding fo the Basin.
 
Grade Levels: 9-12
 
Time Needed: One block class period (90 min.)
 
Geographic Themes:
Place, Region, Human/Environment Interaction
 
Kansas Social Studies Standards for Benchmarks, Grade Levels 12-K:
The students will understand the effects of economics, sciences and technology in the local school and community, Kansas and its surrounding states, the U.S. and its region and the world.
 
The students will understand the connections among people, places and environments in the local school and community, Kansas and its surrounding states, the U.S. its region and the world.
 
National Geographic Standards, Grades 9-12:
 #1 How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective. 
 
Outcome:
The student will become familiar with information available on the Internet that relates to the Lower Republican-Kansas River Drainage Basin.
 
Performance Objectives:
  1. Students will choose three (3) addresses and investigate information related to the Lower Republican-Kansas River Basin.
  2. Students will evaluate the search in the form of a reaction paper with appropriate map printouts from the sites.
 
Materials Needed:
 
Procedures:
  1. Briefly review information from the 1993 flood season.
    National Geographic, January1994
    Kansas City Star, July1993
    The great flood of 1993 post flood report:....basin.
    The Governor’s Water Quality Initiative
  2. Reserve computer time in the Writing Lab
  3. Check to make sure the computers are on line
 
Assessment:
Check to see if the students are on task/having problems locating sites and can download appropriate maps and information for their reaction papers.
 
Extensions:
Have students view video footage from the 1993 flood in Kansas City and along the Mississippi River.
 
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