Geography Alive! Model Lesson:

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Geography Alive! Model Lesson

• Chapter 9 Spatial Inequality in Mexico City
• Unit 3 Urbanization

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Purpose

• Students learn about the process of urbanization
  and the patterns of inequality that exist in
  urban area.

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Overview

• You will assume the role of exchange students
  attending a university in Mexico City. You
  travel to neighborhoods to survey people from
  different social classes about their experiences
  living in Mexico City and draw conclusions from
  the survey.

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Assessment

• Writing for Understanding These neighborhood
  visits will prepare students to write an article
  for their schools newspaper at the end of the
  exchange program.

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Standards addressed in lesson

• 1.1 How to use maps
• 1.3 How to analyze maps
• 2.1 Understanding the physical and human
  characteristics of places
• 4.1 Understanding the characteristics of human
  population
• 4..4 Understanding the patterns of human
  settlement

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Essential Question

• Why does spatial inequality exist in urban areas?

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Skills used

• Determine patterns on a map
• Use and analyzing tables, diagrams, maps to find
  information
• Finding main ideas and supporting details
• Making valid generalizations

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Agenda

• Interview Neighborhood Visit One
• Part 1 Visiting Neighborhoods in Mexico City
  Briefly Review 9.3
• Part 2 Introducing Neighborhood Survey
• Debrief Survey
• Part 3 Color the area where you think
  neighborhood is located
• Debrief Survey What are the possible
  neighborhoods it could be?

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Interview Neighborhood Visit Two

• Part 1 2 Introduce and Briefly Review 9.4
• Debrief
• Part 3 Color the area where you think
  neighborhood is located
• Debrief Survey What are the possible
  neighborhoods it could be?

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Street Café Discussion Questions

• What was the most interesting part of your
  neighborhood visits?
• What surprised you the most when completing the
  survey in each neighborhood? What did not
  surprise you?
• What do you think causes spatial inequality in
  Mexico City?

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Street Café Discussion Questions

• Does life in Mexico have to be this way? If not,
  who is responsible for changing it?
• Is spatial inequality fair? Does where people
  live determine how they live?
• What about life in Mexico City seems similar to
  or different from life in Denver?

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Debriefing the Lesson

• Review the elements of the lesson.
• Review the assessment and the essential questions
  for understanding.
• What student learnings are exhibited?
• Where does this lesson in the unit plans and in
  answering the semester question?
• How do you take this lesson back to your class?