Geographic Education: Should Start Early Five Themes of Geography F F Location: Absolute and Relative F F Place: Human and Physical Characteristics F.

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Geographic Education: Should Start Early

Five Themes of Geography F F Location: Absolute and Relative F F Place: Human and Physical Characteristics F F Human Environmental Interactions F F Regions: Political and Geographic F F Movement: People, Goods, and Ideas

Five Skills for Interpreting Map Data F F Reading the Key and Interpreting Symbols F F Determining Longitude and Latitude F F Determining Direction F F Scale and Calculating Distance F F Making Generalizations and Decisions (see resource book for examples of the above skills)

Interpreting Symbols: Our Heads are Full of Mental Maps

Interpreting Symbols: Globe vs Maps and Why Distortion is an Issue

Maps have different perspectives of the World

Interpreting Symbols: Globe vs Maps and Why Distortion is an Issue

Interpreting Symbols: Reading Charts

Interpreting Symbols: Buckminister’s Fuller’s: Dymaxion Projection

Interpreting Symbols: Toads on Logs F F Title: purpose of the cartographer F F Orientation: compass rose F F Author: who is the cartographer F F Date: national boundaries do change F F Scale: perspective of size

Interpreting Symbols:Toads on Logs F F Legend: also known as the key F F Outline: leave a border for hole punch F F Grid: make them fine and to scale F F Source: could be you or another map

Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

A Historical Map prior to the Civil War Uses Color to Symbolize Data

A Night View of the U.S.

Symbols and Legends: Student Examples

Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

Interpreting Symbols or Longitude and Latitude

Determining Scale and Calculating Distance

Determining Directions: Some Primary Ideas

Determining Directions: Border Patrol

Critical Thinking and Determining Directions

Critical Thinking: Map Concepts

Critical Thinking: Making Geographic Decisions

Review and Development F F In Groups of three to five F F Summarize the Key Points F F Expand and Add Ideas F F Raise Questions for Clarification