Monday, Sept. 9th

Objectives

Students will be able to identify climate zones and seasons on a map according to the tilt of the earth.

Students will be able to identify how geographers show information on a map.

 

Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Discuss with your teammates the following terms:  Absolute Location, Relative location, map distortion and map projection

Whole class: Go over 1.7 Earth and Sun  and Map Skills test

Using the Atlas, students will locate countries using latitude and longitude

Resources

Quizlet practice

Geo Alive Ch. 1

Interactive Lat/Long game

Latitude and longitude

Homework

Unit 1 test ON WEDNESDAY!!

Optional:  2000 XP in Classcraft for a big bag of candy