This document discusses creating a model to analyze different state welcoming signs. Students will work in groups to create a model examining the text and graphic elements of signs from several states. The model will simplify and generalize real state welcoming signs to facilitate understanding differences and make comparisons.

1. A model is…
• a representation of some phenomenon of the real world made in order to
facilitate an understanding of its workings.
• a simplified and generalized version of real events, from which the incidental
detail has been removed.
This year we will be studying a lot of models that geographers have created to explain and analyze the world. In
today’s activity, you will work in a group to create a model that analyzes different state welcoming signs.
Creating A Model To Examine State Welcoming Signs State
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