Monday, Aug. 26

Objectives Students will acquire basic map-reading skills and define the importance of key geographic terms
Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Look up definitions for:

Latitude, longitude and scale

work on Unit 1 Vocabulary in GC

Intro to Ch. 1.2 – Absolute and relative location

Resources

Latitude and Longitude

Dazzling Design

Dazzling Design Directions

In Search of Gold article 

In Search of Gold note catcher

Geo Alive Ch. 1

Homework

Dazzling Design due- Aug 23

In Search of Gold – note catcher – due Aug. 23

Ask your students to describe absolute and relative location