Geography, Day 4 - Class Recap

This is a globe that was in a house that George Washington stayed at for a few weeks in Barbados. Photo taken in 2011.

Hi everyone,

We are officially on the back side of the week! Hooray. Today, we learned about the Five Themes of Geography and did some more map work with the atlases in class. Here's what happened:

Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 6: I can demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of locations and regions. Knowledge LT 7: I can demonstrate the ability to use geographic tools. 

Soundtrack: "Maps" by Maroon 5. Get it? Because we are learning about Geography and maps? Ha, ha. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 9/17/14:
News Brief – Shaggy
Blog Recap
Five Themes of Geography
Atlases
Map Work

Homework: Read the blog. Bring a photo for the wall if you have not already. Study for North America map quiz next class (need completed and colored map of North America done in order to use). Next news brief: Jocelyn.

News Brief: Shaggy hastily found a news brief story at the start of class and selected this one: France24.com - France arrests six suspected of recruiting female jihadists. Today was the start of a news brief tradition, where we locate the country that is being talked about on our world maps and highlight or star it, so we know we have talked about it. Thus, we found France (which is where Lyon is), which is in Europe. We talked a bit about Syria with this, too. Thanks, Shaggy! Jocelyn had her name drawn by the popsicle sticks to do the next one

Blog Recap: For this section, I just wanted to show this website again and re-emphasize the importance of checking in, reading the recaps, on staying on top of what we are doing in class. For instance, a map quiz question that you will already know if you are reading this is: This country, east of Cuba, makes up the western half of the island known as Hispaniola. A lot of time and effort goes into writing the blog - please use it to help yourself be successful! :-)

Five Themes of Geography: Basically, this was a PowerPoint presentation in combination with a handout for notes on each of the themes and an activity using the atlases. The Five Themes of Geography are:

Movement
Regions
Human Environment interactions
Location
Place

Or: MR. HELP!

For those that were not in class or wanted to see the presentation again for additional review, here it is:

Google Drive - Five Themes of Geography PowerPoint

Google Drive - Five Themes of Geography Worksheet Handout

Atlases: The rest of class was dedicated to working on the handout, by finding maps in the atlas that relate to each of the themes of Geography and the subsections. For instance, the map of refugees in the world would be an excellent example of Movement --> Human Movement.

Map Work: Again, a heads up that you need your completed North America/Caribbean map, with the countries labeled and colored to use next class on the quiz. Please use a website like Google Maps, or ask questions if you need help! Here are the maps again:

Google Drive - World Maps for Class

Sound good? See you next class!