Grade 5 · Social Studies · Lesson 8

Geography Project: Country Profile

A COUNTRY PROFILE is a one-page snapshot of a place. Geographers, journalists, and travel writers all build profiles when they need to learn a country fast. A good profile answers eight quick questions — Where is it? What is the capital? What languages are spoken? How many people live there? What is the climate like? — and turns a name on a map into a real place with real people.

What this lesson teaches

1Build a country profile with the eight standard geography fields
2Use atlases, encyclopedias, and trusted websites to gather accurate data
3Match each profile field to the type of evidence that fits it
4Explain what a country profile reveals about a place and its people

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