Honolulu Overlays

Honolulu Overlays...Looking For Borders and Boundaries

Dawn Waiwaiole
Grade Level: Upper Elementary
Spring 1999

Purpose:

Looking out to sea is the usual perspective of one who observes the geography of a place. But with the location of Sand Island Recreation Area, the benefit of seeing land from the sea is quite interesting. Students have an opportunity to experience as our forbearers have, of seeing the boundaries between the land and the sea, between the lowlands and the Ko`olau Mountains, and the various valleys.

Objectives:

Students will read newspaper articles about Sand Island and become familiar with the maps.

Students will make two drawings as directed on the worksheets and further trace these drawings on acetate sheets or recycled lamination scraps.

Students will be able to identify physical, political, and economic boundaries of Honolulu.

Hawaii Content and Performance Standards:

Content area:

Relationships within and among places, people and environments

Performance Standards:

Explain, use, and apply geographic themes of location, place, human-environment interactions, movement, and region.

Define, use, and apply elements of scale, symbols, and direction in the creation and use of maps.

Geographic Standards: The geographically informed student knows and understands:

Standard #3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface.

Standard #12: The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlements.

Standard #18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.

Geographic Skills:

Asking geographic questions: Where are the obvious borders, or boundaries of Honolulu from where you are situated?

Acquiring geographic information: Readings from the newspaper articles about the area included in the handouts.

Organizing geographic information: Complete overlays.

Analyzing geographic information: Draw conclusions as to why your view of Honolulu is the way it is.

Answering geographic questions: Students will be able to answer the questions about borders and boundaries.

Geographic Themes: Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region.

Lesson Can Be Used With A Unit On: History of Honolulu, Economics.

Materials Needed:

maps and pictures of borders and boundaries
handouts
Sharpie pen
scissors
tape
reference sources, atlases, etc.

Procedure:

1. Discuss kinds and examples of borders and boundaries.

a. Physical borders
b. Political boundaries
c. Economic boundaries
d. Use a variety of maps and pictures

2. Develop handouts according to field trip site.

3. Students record observations on themes handout (to be completed upon return to class.

4. Draw physical borders - water, mountains, etc.

5. Draw political and economic boundaries - buildings, edges of the city, etc.

6. Cut film into 2 parts; overlay the two parts and tape together. Discuss outcome and conclusions.

7. Record data and conclusions on worksheets; research for more data upon return to class.

8. Students to share their presentations in small groups.

Assessment Strategies: Students will complete handouts and verbally compare Procedure step #1 ,with Procedure step #8.

Appendix:

Sketch of Mountains (overlay worksheet)
Themes worksheet - two pages
Sand Island State Park map
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3/2/99, "State to spend $30 mil on harbor"
Identification map of Honolulu Harbor to be used with previous article.
Questions sheet