Thursday/Friday 10.16.14-10.17.14

Agenda: 
-warm up
-history of mapping II PPT
-court cartographer project

Article about astrolabes: article

•Objective: SWBAT explain the history of mapmaking and the processes involved by creating their own maps.

•Warm up: What are the three “g’s” of navigation? Explain each of them.

•Homework: Court Cartographer project due on Monday.

Tuesday/Wednesday 10.14-10.15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-review questions from reading
-turn in annotations on google classroom 
-History of Map Making (Cornell Notes) Part I of PPT
-Court Cartographer Project

•Objective: SWBAT explain the history of mapmaking and the processes involved by creating their own maps.

•Warm up: Why are maps important?

•Homework: Finish any assigned classwork.

Monday 10.13.14

agenda: 
-warm up
-turn in vegetation maps
-Latitude, longitude, time zones, seasons test
-work on annotations 
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•Objective: Show mastery of time zones, seasons, latitude, and longitude by completing an assessment.

•Warm up: Any last minute questions?

•Turn in your vegetation maps.

•Homework: Article: annotations and questions due next block period.

Thursday/Friday 10.9.14-10.10.14

Agenda:
-warm up
-popuquiz
-review game for Monday's test
-online annotation and questions

This is a link to the article we are reading in class: Early Mapping
Please save a copy to your own drive. (File*Make A Copy*"X" out of Ms. Cohen's copy)
You will be reading and annotating on your own before you answer the questions.
Early Mapping Questions

Objective: Display mastery of coordinates by taking a quiz. Practice for unit test on Monday by playing a review game.

Warm up: Write down a list of how to look up cities in our Atlas using coordinates.

Homework: Study for the unit test on Monday. Maps due on Monday. Early mapping questions due on Tuesday.

The links for the vegetation maps and their key: 

Map 

Vegetation Key 

Rainfall Key 

Temperature Key 

 

Tuesday/Wednesday 10.7.14-10.8.14

agenda:
-warm up
-collect time zone project
-review Latitude/Longitude Practice worksheet (homework from Monday)
-Seasons - Cornell Notes
-US Latitude Longitude Practice
-LL Scavenger Hunt

Objective: SWBAT  to identify seasons by completing a season chart. 

Warm up: What do you know about seasons? It can by anything!

Homework: Review LL notes. There might be a pop quiz during the next block period. Vegetation maps due on Monday 10.13.

Practice

The following links are practice for latitude/longitude, time zones, and seasons. You should also review your notes for Monday's assessment. We will be reviewing together in class during the second block:

Seasons Interactive Site

Lat/long practice:LL Practice

time zones: http://www.softschools.com/social_studies/geography/time_zones/us_time_zones/

Coordinates practice: http://geographyworldonline.com/tutorial/practice.html

10.6.14 Monday

Agenda:

-change seats

-review latitude/longitude

-practice LL (Practice Worksheet)

• Objective: Review time zones and latitude/longitude. 
• Warm up: Fill in the blanks (write each sentence out completely)
  1.There are ___________ time zones in the world.
  2.They are ___________ degrees on average apart.
  3.Every ___________ degrees longitude is ________ hour. 
• Homework: Pinwheel TZ project due during first block. Maps due NEXT MONDAY. Review lat/long/time zone notes. There will be a quiz on Monday 10.13.14.