Essential Questions
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Enduring Understanding
- Explaining the where and why of our world.
Day 3-4 Mapping the World
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Part 2
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Part 3-Countries around the World
Lesson 1-Using Geography
Journal Day 1-India Holi
What are your first impressions of Holi?
Why might a festival like this mean so much to its people?
What are your first impressions of Holi?
Why might a festival like this mean so much to its people?
Geo-Literacy Components
1. System Understanding -Interactions-An understanding of humans and environmental systems, and human environment interactions
- Example-
- Example-
- Example-
Day 2-Vacations
Journal Day 2- South Carolina Sharks
Pick a particular shark. Write a short description of the shark's territory and movements. What are your thoughts on this form of mapping?
Pick a particular shark. Write a short description of the shark's territory and movements. What are your thoughts on this form of mapping?
Google My Maps Create An Adventure
Buffer Analysis
Race to the Coast
Lesson 2- Themes of Geography
Journal Day 3-Namibia
Why are travelers good perspective takers ?
Why are travelers good perspective takers ?
5 Themes of Geography
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Lesson 3-Location
Absolute Location- is a place on the globe. The most common way to find absolute location is using latitude and longitude. You may also represent absolute location using a street address.
Relative Location- is described by the relationship of time, distance, or direction from another point.
PRACTICE: Are these points described by absolute or relative location? CLICK HERE
Relative Location- is described by the relationship of time, distance, or direction from another point.
PRACTICE: Are these points described by absolute or relative location? CLICK HERE
Lesson 4-Place
- Place can also be considered Site
- Situation-Location relative to other places
- Key for comparison and importance
- Key for comparison and importance
- Physical Characteristics of place include: landforms, ecosystems, climate and weather.
- Human Characteristics of place include: language, customs, and beliefs.
Physical Characteristics
Physical and Human Characteristics
Lesson 5-Region
Journal Day 4- Venice Italy
What are your thoughts of Venice?
What are your thoughts of Venice?
- Why is every place unique?
Formal Region Example
Functional Region Example
Perceptual Regions Example
Lesson 6-Human Environment Interaction
Daily Journal 5-Swiss Alps
If you had to describe the Alps for a person who hasn't seen them how would you describe them?
If you had to describe the Alps for a person who hasn't seen them how would you describe them?
Why are places connected?
Humans interact with their environment in a variety of ways.
- Humans adapt to their environment.
- We modify the environment.
- Humans also depend their environment.
Three Pillars of Sustainability
- Environment Pillar-Managing Earth's natural resources to meet human needs. Sustainability can only exist if conservation or preservation of all resources
- Social Pillar-Humans must meet their needs, so must make sustainable choices. Modifying the wants of human to be sustainable.
- Economic Pillar-Natural resources have value. Ability to set prices based on supply and demand. The greater the supply, the lower the price. The lower the supply, the higher the price.
Class Discussion: We're familiar with a lot of these methods of sustainability. Why the disconnect between knowing and using?
Lesson 7-Movement
Journal Day 6- Guess the Location
Use the culture clues in today's video to guess the location. Write down one guess and the actual location. Daily Journal Day 7-Guess the Location Use the culture clues in today's video to guess the location. Write down one guess and the actual location. |
Journal Day 8- Guess the Location
Use the cultural clues in the video to help you guess the location. Write your guess and the actual location in your journal. Daily Journal 9-Guess the Location Use the culture clues in today's video to guess the location. Write down one guess and the actual location Daily Journal 10-Guess the Location Use the culture clues in today's video to guess the location. Write down one guess and the actual location |
Movement- The flow of people, goods, and ideas and elements of nature.
Rate of travel comparison- Write down the travel time for each year of these cities from NYC 1. Plymouth WI 2. San Francisco CA 3. Houston TX 4. Miami FL 5. Washington D.C. |
Lesson 8- Space, Scale, and Connection
Scale-(Global to Local) Relationship between area studied and the Earth as a whole
- Influence of processes operating at different scales
- Context of a phenomenon in what is happening at different scales
- Political use of scale to change who is involved or how an issue is perceived
Scale Mapping Question
1. Can a particular location be a part of two different scales?
1. Can a particular location be a part of two different scales?
Discussion-What's the conclusion on we can make based on A-D?
Based on the map Define Spatial Association
Based on the map Define Spatial Association
Journal-Explain Spatial Interaction based on viewing this map
Journal-What conclusion can we make about this map of Los Angeles and all of the suburbs listed?
Space-Physical gap or interval between two objects. Between A-B.
- This could help with how objects are distributed along with culture identities
Diffusion- Spreading of the connection process
- Expansion Diffusion-From one place to another. Includes 3 processes
- Hierarchical Diffusion-Spread from person to person
- Contagious Diffusion-Rapid spread
Stimulus Diffusion
Barriers of Diffusion
- Physical barriers-rivers, oceans, lakes, and mountain ranges.
- Cultural- religious beliefs, language
- Political-boundary can impede or slow down the dissemination of disease.
- Economic- people in certain places cannot afford to purchase a new commodity or technological innovation.