Topics of Interest

Explore curriculum paths that trace topics across units and the span of New Hampshire history.

Geography

This curriculum path provides students with an introduction to the study of geography, which covers the earth, its atmosphere, New Hampshire specifically, and how human activity influences the physical world around us.

The links below lead to the Educator Guide for each lesson. For the Worksheets and Resources file for each lesson plan, visit the Unit Plan for the relevant unit.

Lesson Plan 1.1

Map Vocabulary and Introduction

Play a variety of vocabulary games and learn basic map skills

Lesson Plan 1.3

New Hampshire's Land

Understand how glaciers affected New Hampshire’s land and visualize the land

Lesson Plan 2.1

People of the Dawn

Investigate where the Abenaki lived and their influences on place names today

Lesson Plan 3.1

Explorers

Identify what explorers were looking for and what they found in the land now called New Hampshire

Lesson Plan 3.3

Who Owns the Land?

Compare Abenaki and European cultural perspectives on land use and ownership

Lesson Plan 3.4

The First English Settlements

Consider the community needs of a settlement and how those needs were met in a town charter

Lesson Plan 4.1

Building New Hampshire Towns

Participate in a simulation as town manager for a Masonian Proprietor and create a geographic representation of a town’s development

Lesson Plan 5.1

Why Did We Have a Revolution?

Use non-fiction and mapping skills to decide how one of three events in New Hampshire meets the definition of the "revolution"

Lesson Plan 7.1

New Hampshire on the Move

Evaluate changing modes of transportation for people and goods and design a more effective travel plan to get the ox-cart man to market

Lesson 11.5

Growing Cities

Explore the word “urbanization,” then consider the positives and negatives of urbanization

Lesson Plan 12.3

Mapping Jobs and Immigrant Groups

Create and analyze maps of job locations and immigrant settlements in New Hampshire

Lesson Plan 13.1

Tourists in New Hampshire

Explain why people came to New Hampshire and map tourist attractions

Lesson Plan 14.1

Neglected Waterways

Investigate the history of the Merrimack River before they explore watershed systems and how human pollution affects them

Lesson Plan 1.4

New Hampshire's Weather

Investigate different kinds of extreme weather in New Hampshire

Lesson Plan 1.5

Regions of New Hampshire

Sort human-made and natural attractions in New Hampshire by region, then plan a trip through all seven regions

Lesson Plan 1.8

Mapping Your Town

Choose an aspect of a town and create a map or add layers to an existing map

Lesson Plan 17.1

A Small State of Many Cultures

Map cultures present in New Hampshire today and make a heritage festival in the classroom