Week of September 19th & 26th Wrap Up

Last week (week of the 19th) we spent a lot of time focused on the theme of location. Students learned about and practiced their skills using absolute location (latitude and longitude) and relative location (where a place is near). Students used their skills to do a treasure hunt, and then wrote their own adventure story. For the adventure story, students had to use both absolute and relative location clues for me to follow them to 10 different locations. We also talked about the theme of place, focusing on climate and landforms.

This week (week of the 26th) we spent time setting up Gmail accounts for each student. We then focused on the theme of human-environment interaction (HEI). We watched and discussed Dr. Suess' The Lorax as part of our focus on HEI. On Thursday, we reviewed all 5 themes and reviewed for the quiz students will take on Friday!

Next week we will begin a discussion of culture.

Quiz Tomorrow!

Remember to study for your quiz tomorrow! This post from my class last year has some helpful links to help you review.

Map Projections

Here is the link to the website you will use today!

Week of September 12th Wrap Up

This week students set up geography notebooks, completed their 1st current event, took introduction to geography notes and completed a world map.

Here is a good world map to use if you need to finish up the map assignment.

Current Events

Current event assignments are due EVERY FRIDAY that we have school, starting this week. Today we are going to do the first current event together to make sure you know what to do. After this week, you will be on your own to get the work done.

You can find news information for your current event from newspapers, magazines, online sources, TV or radio, just make sure you include the source information. Here are some helpful online sources for news:

• Star Tribune
• Pioneer Press
• CNN
  
• Student News Daily

You can choose the topic for your current event, but you SHOULD NOT do sports or entertainment news, unless it is a bigger issue. Check with me if you're not sure what counts as a bigger issue.

Class Syllabus

Just in case you need another, here is a link to our class syllabus. Make sure that you and a parent/guardian sign it, and bring it back by tomorrow (Friday)!