Readings on Geography
Unit 1 Reading, Woods- Chapter 1 unit_1_chapter_reading.pdf and unit 1(chapter 2) in you Baron's AP Book
Pacing Guide
- Woods, p. 8-13 due 12/22/2017
- Woods, p. 13-18 due Friday, 12/22/2017
- Woods, p. 18- 22 due Monday, 12/22/2017
Regions--Formal, Functional, and Perceptual www.killeenisd.org/teacherDocs/c7/e1605/documents/WhatisaRegion-103461.pdf
Global Positioning Systems and our Government www.gps.gov/systems/gps/
Pacing Guide
- Woods, p. 8-13 due 12/22/2017
- Woods, p. 13-18 due Friday, 12/22/2017
- Woods, p. 18- 22 due Monday, 12/22/2017
Regions--Formal, Functional, and Perceptual www.killeenisd.org/teacherDocs/c7/e1605/documents/WhatisaRegion-103461.pdf
Global Positioning Systems and our Government www.gps.gov/systems/gps/
Assignments
Assignment #1: Choose a country to study for the semester
Assignment #2: Find two (2) different maps of your country. Print these maps and bring to class due 10/27
Assignment #3: Complete an illustrated 4-Level Map Analysis (in-class) Monday, 10/30
Assignment #4: Unit 1 Vocabulary --> Define/ identify the following concepts. You must hand-write, underline, and number the terms. Not doing any results in a 5 point deduction. Due Thursday, 11/10/17
Assignment #5: Unit 1 Outlines due Wednesday, 11/15
Assignment #6: Map Projections Chart
Vocabulary
Unit 1 Vocabulary
Assignment #2: Find two (2) different maps of your country. Print these maps and bring to class due 10/27
Assignment #3: Complete an illustrated 4-Level Map Analysis (in-class) Monday, 10/30
Assignment #4: Unit 1 Vocabulary --> Define/ identify the following concepts. You must hand-write, underline, and number the terms. Not doing any results in a 5 point deduction. Due Thursday, 11/10/17
Assignment #5: Unit 1 Outlines due Wednesday, 11/15
Assignment #6: Map Projections Chart
Vocabulary
Unit 1 Vocabulary
- Accessibility
- Anthropogenic
- census
- Connectivity
- Carl Sauer
- equator
- Fertile Crescent
- Formal region
- Functional region
- International dateline
- Intervening opportunity
- Law of retail gravitation
- George Perkins Marsh
- pattern
- Perceptual region
- Projection (map)
- Proportional symbols map
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- Quantitative
- site
- Situation (geography)
- Time-space convergence
- Topological space
- transferability
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Maps
Consider what you are learning about maps and geography in Unit 1. Look at the following maps. Compare and contrast the maps. Consider projection, scale, and other important information the maps are identifying. What else can we claim about the maps?
Videos
Social Scientist/ Journalist Steven Johnson discussing the beginning of GPS