Please copy down the question, answer the question, and copy down the objective in your Interactive Notebooks Warm Up #4 1. When you hear the term geography what do you think of? List terms or tools that you think geographers use to study the world. Objective: Students will be able to understand the terms and tools a geographer uses to understand modern societies and regions Tasks/ Agenda 1. Complete Warm Up 2. Student Mandalas and Notebooks 3. Themes of Geography Brain Pop 4 Themes of Geography Hand out with Notes Homework- Review the 5 Themes of Geography Handout. Be sure you are familiar with their definitions

Brain Pop Activity Please turn your Interactive Notebooks to the next blank page. Title the page “Themes of Geography” Brain Pop While watching the “Themes of Geography” Brain Pop write down 5 things informative or interesting information you learn.

Definitions of the Five Themes of Geography Location Where is it? Where are things located? A Location can be specific: Absolute: A location can be absolute (specific) as in coordinates of a map using longitude and latitude Or a Location can general: Relative: A location can be relative (distance from another place) - examples: next door, nearby, a short drive, down the road a ways. Or, it can be in the same general location as another location - example: next to the post office.

Let’s practice Location? Use the clues to figure out the location of which European country. 1.Lies on the western edge of the European Continent 2.Positioned in the Northern hemisphere 3.It has extensive coastline on the Atlantic Ocean 4.Shares borders: Belgium to North and Spain to the South (plus more) 5.Absolute location: About degrees latitude About degrees longitude

Place What makes a place different from other places? A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. Differences might be defined in terms of climate, physical features, or the people who live there. If you refer to your school as a place, then that place would include walls, windows, gym, cafeteria, classrooms, people, clothing, books, maps, mops, brooms, hallways, mice (if you have them) and everything else in the school, including the languages spoken.

Where are we? Characteristics that distinguish this place: Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, the Great Wall, Ming Tomb, Tiananmen Square, Hutong, Lama Temple, Beihai Park, etc.

Movement What are the patterns of movement of people, products and information? Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. A study of movement includes learning about major modes of transportation, exports and imports of an area, and ways people communicate. This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America?

What are some examples of movement in Panama? Where do the products we use originate? Take a moment and look at labels of your belongings. Are we dependent on products from all around the world? How do these products get to us?

Region How can the Earth be divided into Regions for study? A region is an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics. Those unifying or similar characteristics can be physical, natural, human, or cultural. (for example language, political, religion, vegetation)

The countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and Greater Arabia include some countries not traditionally part of the Middle East but their cultures cause their placement in this region. REGIONREGION Other Examples: Time Zones, School Zones, Physical Regions(tundra, desert)

Human-Environment Interaction What are the relationships among people and places? Human-environment interaction looks at the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it. How have people changed the environment to better suit their needs? How do people depend on the environment? (Example: In ancient times, the annual flooding of the Nile River produced good soil for growing crops.) How to people adapt to the environment? (Example: The ancient Egyptians rebuilt their homes each year, after the annual flooding. As time went on, they built their homes above the flood plain.) How do people modify the environment? (Example: The ancient Egyptians built irrigation ditches to help water the crops. In modern times, Egypt built a dam to control the flood waters of the Nile River.)

HEI: Link to Current Map for 2013 Fire Outbreaks in Western United States: news-map Zoom in to see how many states are affected by the environmental conditions. How do you think citizens prepare or react to these conditions? How does it impact future generations? Or how do future generations adapt to these environmental conditions? Another Example: Who remembers the story of “The Lorax”? Or How did Huntersville, NC look 10 years ago? 20 years ago?