This document provides instructions for an activity to teach students geographic thinking and 21st century skills through examining their hometown of Fredericksburg. Students will consider how landforms, settlement patterns, and cultural identity relate in Fredericksburg by sorting terms into categories and discussing how these geographic concepts interconnect.

1. Where are you? How do you know?

2. GoalsGet them thinking like a GeographerGet them using 21st Century Skills“Soccer Goal” by ewiemann on Flickr

3. Be a Geographerin our hometownLocationMovementRegionHuman-Environment InteractionPlace“Fredericksburg” by richpixfrom Flickr

4. Things to PonderHow do the landforms of Fredericksburg affect how we live?Why did/do people settle in Fredericksburg?What is your cultural identity?

5. How do these relate?How do these things go together?Each group will get a set of cards with words and will decide how they relate to one another.