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 1. It helps children understand ideas about human interaction.  2. Explains social conditions ◦ Climate ◦ Culture ◦ Environments ◦ Answers the question “Where?” 2 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 1. Incidental- knowledge we get learn from everyday living. ◦ Where the store is ◦ Where school is ◦ My home 3 mike rospenda geographic awareness

1.Intentional- fills in the gaps between our local world and the world outside our experience.  Helps in things like time planning  Awareness of space  What the limitations of time are 4 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Human Geography  Spatial Understanding  Physical Systems  Cultural Systems 5 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 How people interact with the land and regions where they live.  The meaning of places in human interaction Snow and Alaska The desert and camels 6 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Placing ourselves in a place in space  Representing ourselves in a variety of formats ◦ Maps ◦ Pictures ◦ Latitudes ◦ Directions 7 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Why people live where they do  Why people move  How economics impacts what people do 8 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 The impact of weather on where people live  Landforms 9 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 These are my thoughts:  1. Make it real  2. Start small- ◦ Desk ◦ Classroom ◦ Bedroom ◦ House ◦ School 10 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Eventually get to the world. ◦ The idea is that we are a small piece of the puzzle ◦ ://httpmaps.google.com/ 11 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Show them how to use a compass  Let the children do a compass course in class  Take that outside and do the course outside  **The Boy Scout book will tell you everything you need to know 12 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 See the handout on the back of the power point 13 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Your car  Gas station  Libraries  Google maps  School ( not so obvious)  Rummage sales  Ask for old maps from people at school 14 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Compare regions  Draw them  Find out how maps are made  Compare today’s maps of your city to older maps of the same city 15 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Give children a space to observe. ◦ Outside ◦ Grassy area ◦ Sandy area ◦ Dirt area ◦ Concrete area 16 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 The space should be about 2’x2’ square  Have them observe interactions  Climate  Animals (insects)  Map the region- discuss how to do this first  Discuss conflicts, geography of each place  Have them do this for about fifteen minutes  Before moving to the next places 17 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Take pictures of the regions  Discuss what occurred at different times ◦ 10:00 AM compared to 10:22 am ◦ Relate all this to human regions and living 18 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Physical Systems relate to the features of place. 19 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Create a city.  Create a land  Create a region 20 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Guidelines: ◦ Students should use the information that you teach them about cites, regions, lands ◦ Give specific guidelines related to culture, shelter, food, economics ◦ Give guidelines related to government, paying for government 21 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Reasons should be given for additions to student work  Students must show a representation of their region, city, …. ◦ Have this open to interpretation  Salt map  Line map  Pictures  3D representation 22 mike rospenda geographic awareness

 Teach for meaning  Teach that we are not alone  Give a wide variety of experiences with maps  Show the practical uses of mapping  GPS??  Teach that we all have basic needs regardless of where we live  Teach that we all have value, regardless of geography or culture 23 mike rospenda geographic awareness