Sixth Grade Teachers

Where Should I Live?

Advantages and Disadvantages

of Geographic Features

Last week, you and your classmates brainstormed a list of possible advantages and disadvantages of living near specific geographic features and climate zones. Your teachers were so impressed at the inferential thinking you did! Now, based on the thinking you did, you will select a feature, develop your understanding of it, and take a position: Do the advantages of living near this feature outweigh the disadvantages?

Use the following websites to help you with your research:

**Ecology and Society (an online journal): you can use this to search a variety of journal articles (http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/search.php)

VOLCANO:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/volcanoes/theadvantages.shtml

http://www.fema.gov/hazard/volcano/index.shtm

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education/index.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01186/dangers.htm

SEA LEVEL:

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/venice.shtml

http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2008/02/sea-level-low-in-venice.html

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/

http://geology.com/articles/rebuilding-new-orleans.shtml

RIVER:

http://classgeo.blogspot.com/2008/08/advantages-of-living-near-river.html

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art15/

PLATE BOUNDARY:

http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate4.htm

http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml

http://www.geodyn.psu.edu/research/americas/sanandreas.html

http://oceansjsu.com/105d/exped_shakin/11.html

MOUNTAIN:

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/13438-american-geography-

the-mountain-states-volume-ii-video.htm

TROPICAL ZONE:

http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/zones.asp?ID=6

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/tropics/tropics_intro.htm

http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/teacher_levels.html

HARBOR/BAY:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay

http://www.savesfbay.org/site/pp.asp?c=dgKLLSOwEnH&b=479739

ISLAND:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island

http://tinyurl.com/3vs8le

FOREST:

http://tinyurl.com/4dm5hc

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art18/

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art2/

MOUNTAIN:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/PeoplePlaces/Sherpa

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art14/

PLAIN:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Plain

http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/Geography.htm

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