Sept. 4

Objective Students will acquire basic components of  maps and apply our knowledge map vocabulary
Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Daily Oral Geography (DOG)

Phase 2 card questions with Lab 1.4

Terms and definitions

 Resources Geography Alive
Homework None 🙂

 

Aug 31

Objective Students will acquire basic components of  maps and apply our knowledge map vocabulary
Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Daily Oral Geography (DOG)

Farm Map with partners

Geography words and definitions

 Resources Geography Alive
Homework None 🙂

 

Aug 30

Objective Students will acquire basic components of  maps and apply our knowledge map vocabulary
Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Daily Oral Geography (DOG)

Class Team Builder:  Quizlet -live

Geography words and definitions

  • If you were absent today, click on the link and play the match game with vocabulary terms – Quizlet match game
 Resources

Geography Alive

Quizlet live

Homework None 🙂

 

Aug 29

Objective Students will acquire basic components of  maps and apply our knowledge in reading maps
Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Daily Oral Geography (DOG) Applying directions using an atlas –

Phase 1 cards:  Looking at our maps and thinking of how we can apply what we have learned.

Vocabulary:  Map grid – relative location

Global grid – absolute location

 Resources

Geography Alive

Map 1.3

Homework None 🙂

 

Aug 28

Objective Students will acquire basic components of  maps and apply our knowledge in reading maps
Classroom Activity

Warm-up:  Daily Oral Geography (DOG) Applying directions using an atlas

Phase 1:  Applying Map Titles and Symbols

Resources Geography Alive and map
Homework None 🙂

 

Aug 27

Objective Students will acquire basic map-reading skills to utilize maps and map components
Classroom Activity

Vocabulary scramble

Read 1.3 – Essential Question:  How do geographers show information on maps?

Applied absolute location and relative location on a map grid

Resources Geography Alive and map grid
Homework None 🙂

 

Aug. 24

Objective Students will acquire basic map-reading skills to utilize maps and map components
Classroom Activity

Read 1.1 – Essential Question:  How do geographers show information on maps?

Vocabulary:  Absolute Location, Relative location,  distortion and map projections

Resources Geography Alive and graphic organizer
Homework None 🙂

 

 

Aug 23

 

Objective Students will acquire the basic map-reading skills
Classroom Activity

Blizzard/snow storm debrief and class discussion –

Siberian Wilderness Exit Ticket

Resources Google Classroom Assignment
Homework

Spiral notebook – We will work from these on Thursday, Aug. 23rd

Submit Siberian Wilderness Exit ticket – due Aug.23

BN – Parent/student handbook due Thurs. Aug. 23th

 

Aug 22

Objective Students will acquire the basic map-reading skills
Classroom Activity Siberian “blizzard” Wilderness activity – We are learning about the importance of using mapping grids as cartographers – as physical landscapes can change!
Resources Google Classroom Assignment
Homework

Spiral notebook – We will work from these on Thursday, Aug. 23rd

BN – Parent/student handbook due Thurs. Aug. 23th

Aug 21

Objective To successfully sign in to Google classroom and review latitude and longitude with new vocabulary.
Classroom Activity Sign in to Google Classroom and complete ‘Little Atlas” activity and turn in
Resources Google Classroom Codes
Homework

Spiral notebook

BN – Parent/student handbook due Tues. Aug. 24th