WARM UP

• Trivia Challenge - Navigate to the Geo Fun section of classroom portal page. Visit the geography trivia challenge link. Select Capitals & Countries III – In each of your groups, play one game. • Take a snapshot of your score and put it into drop-box on portal.

Make sure your group members’ names are on the file

AgendaWarm UpPresentation and Discussion – Human vs. Physical GeographyActivity – Location description through physical and human geography.

Homework• Make 3-5 contributions to your group’s country profile on Google Drive

ObjectivesBy the end of this lesson students will be able to:• Distinguish between human and physical geography.• Identify the characteristics of human geography and physical geography.• Develop a working definition for human geography

HUMAN VS. PHYSICAL GEO

HUMAN GEOGRAPY

As you watch the following video on human geography, identify some of the topics that are included within the field.

WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?3 Definitions of Human Geo.“That part of the discipline of geography concerned with the spatial differentiation and organization of human activity and its interrelationships with the physical environment”

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The branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth’s surface. -Oxford Dictionary

“Human geography is a branch of the social sciences that studies the world, its people, communities and cultures with an emphasis on relations of and across space and place.”

- Ron Johnson

WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

Major areas of Human Geography

• Economics

• Health

• History

• Political

• Population

• Settlement

WHAT IS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY?

Physical GeographyLandformsSoilsAnimalsPlantsWater, rivers, other bodies of waterRocks and MineralsClimate & Weather

Physical geography examines and investigates natural phenomena spatially.- Physical Geography.net

Physical geography studies the spatial patterns of weather and climate, soils, vegetation, animals, water in all its forms, and landforms.- unknown

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT PART OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?

DemocracyCities, towns, megacitiesCommunismIslamAIDSOPECGDP

DictatorshipDiabetesDeath rateHinduismNATO treaty countriesAccess to waterUrban & Rural

DATA COLLECTIONWorking in your groups:- Select a country, maybe one you are interested in visiting- Use the CIA World factbook and Mundi to gather research on your

selected place. - Complete the data collection document by describing various

physical and human characteristics for your selected place.- Each student must make 2 physical contributions and 3-4 human

contributions- Make sure your name and all work has a color – Max, Reem Sammy