The United States and Canada

Monday, August 31

Do Now… Take out your World Geography materials Take out your homework over the weekend (Class map and Population Density Activity) and place them in the Turn In Box

Review Quizzes… Climate Vegetation Any questions… Temperature Precipitation Vegetation Elevation Latitude Any questions…

Review Concepts…

Go Geography… Topic: Intro to US and Canada What do you know?! List all the geographical/cultural facts you can about the United States and Canada Rally Robin – Rapid Fire

Intro Map… Use your Atlases and smart devices (website: World Factbook) to fill in each of the elements for your individual map of the United States

Impact of Landscape and Resources… How does the landscape and natural resources impact each country’s economy? How does the landscape and natural resources impact settlement patterns?

Standard of Living Paragraph… What is standard of living? Standard of living the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community Use information from the textbook (Chapter 2) or world fact book to write a paragraph explaining the factors that contribute to the standard of living in the United States and Canada.

Closure… What did we learn today?

September 1, 2015

Do Now… After quietly taking your seat, take out your World Geography materials along with your homework from the last few days DO NOT PUT IT IN THE TURN IN BOX

Homework Turn-In Put each of the following activities in neat piles on your tables: Population Density Activity Classroom Map The United States and Canada Map Landscape and Resources Impact Chart

Go Geography! Topic: The Mighty Mississippi In which state does the Mississippi River begin? Roughly how many states look like their economy could be affected by the Mississippi? In what ways do you believe Baton Rouge and New Orleans specifically might be affected by the Mississippi?

Regions of the United States and Canada Use your atlas and smart devices to determine these landform regions (outline and shade): Pacific Mountains (Intermountain) Basins and Plateaus Rocky Mountains (Interior) Great Plains Central Plain/Lowlands Canadian Shield Arctic Coastal Plains Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain Appalachian Mountains/Highlands

Connecting Regions to Natural Resources

September 2, 2015

Do Now… Take out your World Geography Materials Pass back the Material in the Pick Up box

Go Geography! Topic: Standard of Living in the US and Canada According to the video, what are some relevant factors that contribute to a person/country’s standard of living? How would your describe the standard of living in the United States? Explain.

Standard of Living What is a standard of living? What are the factors that contribute to standard of living? Text Chain – Factors that contribute to standard of living Group Summary Standard of living is the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community

Standard of Living Text Chain – Definition and Factors that contribute to standard of living…. Each person will write down their definition of standard of living and what contributes to it (1) Next pass the papers to the right, write your definition on the paper you receive (2) For (3) and (4) see if you can your definition from before

Regions determined by standards of living factors Some regions are determined by the material items produced, as well as other non-material items that affect standard of living United States: Bread Basket, Rust Belt, Tornado Alley, Great Plains, Silicon Valley, Cotton Belt, San Andres Fault, Sunbelt, and New South Canada: Atlantic, Central, Prairie, West Coast, and the North Work in groups to determine: 1) Where is it? (by putting it on the Map, you have answered this question) 2) What sets this region apart from the rest of the country? How does the region influence standard of living?

Challenges between regions… How do the human characteristics of a region affect the communication and interaction between regions? How do the physical characteristics of a region affect the communication and interaction between regions? Mix – Share – Switch

Factors that bring regions together… What are the unifying physical and human characteristics of the region? What brings people together? Summary Paragraph Big picture followed by examples…

Closure…

September 3, 2015

Do Now… After entering the class QUIETLY, take your seat and get out your World Geography materials. If you have Homework to turn in, place it in the Turn In Box

Go Geography! Topic: Climate Zones Review: What two factors determine climate? How might a climate zone affect the standard of living, land use, settlement patterns, and economic activities of a specific place?

Examining the Physical and Human Characteristics of the US and Canada Find an example of the following maps for North America in Your Atlas: Political, Physical, Vegetation, Population, Land use, Resource Make note of the Atlas and page in which you find the map

Climate Regions – Describing Regions Each group gets a region… Within your climate regions, use the maps at your disposal to determine the following information 1) States and/or Provinces 2) Most common elevation 3) Types of vegetation found 4) Sentences explaining the population trends 5) How the land is used, including common resources Present the Information to the Class

Comparing Canada and US Literature to Read Describe the physical and human characteristics of the United States and Canada What are the differences, what characteristics do they share Venn Diagram

Closure

September 4, 2015

Do Now… After quietly taking your seat, please take out your Homework from last night (put in the turn in box) and World Geography materials There was a mouse running around the front of the room earlier, so watch where you step… There is some candy in the back corner of the room by the paper towels, first come first serve…

Go Geography… Topic: Push and Pull Factors How would you describe a push factor and a pull factor? The circumstances at the beginning of class, which was a push factor and which was a pull factor? Can you recall a push/pull factor involving the United States in the past? What were they?

So What Exactly are Push/Pull Factors Push-Pull Factors. When people migrate, they don't just leave one place and magically arrive somewhere else. Usually something pushes them away from their native country and pulls them toward a new place. This idea is called the push-pull factor Push/Pull Factors Activity

Examining Immigration Trends into America… Students will research their heritage or a country of interest using your smart device. As you conduct your research summaries, important information notes should be taken from each source and recorded into a Graphic Organizer. Research should focus on determining possible reasons for your ancestors’ migration to the United States and should be classified as push or pull factors. At the End, you will write a Summary Paragraph explaining the information you found.

Common Push/Pull factors… What are some of the major Push or Pull Factors you discovered?

The Effects of War/Conflicts How do wars or conflicts affect immigration trends? Common examples of wars or conflicts involving America?

Connecting Conflicts to Geography… What part does geography play in major conflicts? How do conflict effect the geography of a place? Closing Go Geography! Reflect on the questions above, discuss with your shoulder partner Respond in your Go Geography

Closure… No Homework over the weekend Will most likely have a test a week from today… so keep that in mind