teaching geography. 5 themes location place region movement human-environment interaction
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5 Themes
• Location• Place• Region• Movement• Human-Environment Interaction
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Location
• Where is it?• Absolute location vs. relative location• Longitude and Latitude• Prime Meridian, Equator, Tropics• Google Earth, of course
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Maps and their messages
• Different types (political, climate, topographical, etc)
• Different uses and projections
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Mercator Projection
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Robinson
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Peters Projection
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What’s up with this?
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Place
• What is it like there?• Landforms, rivers, climate, etc.• Have students draw and label
physical features on a blank map
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Landform sample
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Climates
• Steppes, Savannah, permafrost, rainforest, boreal forest, desert and desertification, etc.
• What are these places like and why does it matter?
• How does the climate affect the culture?
• What would you pack if you went there?
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Steppe
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Savannah and Boreal Forest
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Desertification
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Location: what are the people like?
• Government• culture• language• religion • Economics• History• natural resources • education, population density, birth/death
rates, etc.
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Possibilities
• Lots of great activities for exploring these things– Learn about and practice customs– Read and interpret charts and graphs– Best source:
www.nationalgeographic.com
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Region: how do we identify larger areas?
• Like place, but on a bigger scale• Do regions really exist?
– What is Africa?– Why is Europe a region?– Why do we call it the Middle East?
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Movement
• How do goods, people, and ideas move from one region to another?
• Transportation• Cultural exchanges• Immigration• Disease
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Human-Environment Interaction
• A two-way street• How do people adapt to the
environment?– Irrigation, dams, mining, farming,
desalination,etc.• How does the environment adapt to
us?– Global warming– Deforestation– Water scarcity and water stress– Pollution
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What are people doing about it?
• Prof. Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate“When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”
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Project ideas
• What could your students do about these issues?
• Water in developing nations?• Pollution?• Deforestation?
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What about the location of natural resources?
• How does this affect power relationships?
• See article on the Arctic and oil• What about Central Asia?• Where will power be located in the
future?• Where will future conflicts be?• Future business opportunities?