1. Objective: Students will examine the process of diffusion Essential Question: how are ideas spread? Lang Obj: Students will record key vocabulary and discuss in small groups CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PLACES

2. QUIZ REVIEW REREAD NOTES FROM WEDNESDAY, HIGH LIGHT OR STAR MAIN IDEAS AND SUMMARIZE

3.  The geometric arrangement of objects in space  Can be a geometric pattern or distributed irregularly.  Think how objects form a linear distribution- houses on street subway line  Cities on grid pattern Fort Collins and Greeley  Patterns in Baseball teams located in largest metropolitan areas PATTERN

4.  Geographers consider cultural identify to be important in understanding spatial interaction  Differences in gender, race, and sexual orientation are present in the attitudes and actions of others  Dad and mom both working  Who stays home to raise kids?  Dayton Ohio, whites on the east side and persons of color west  Why do more whites live in nice side of town?  Homosexual attracted to locations of high concentration of other gays- San Francisco reputation as a sympathetic city  Can homosexuals live everywhere? What are the tradeoffs  Not a topic of Pcness but an explanation of why each place on Earth is unique GENDER AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN SPACE

5.  Globalized world, more rapid connections and reduced time  Space-Time compression: the reduction in time it takes to diffuse something to a distinct place as a result of improved communications and transport  No longer talking camels but jets! What?  This leads to cultural exchange or diffusion CONNECTIONS

6.  The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time. (Messy interaction)  Hearth- the place from which an innovation originates  Cool to track information and ideas. Where is the hearth for the I phone?  Hearth can develop when a cultural group is willing to try something new  I owe you a video ;) World of Us or something  two types of diffusion relocation and expansion DIFFUSION

7.  The spread of an idea through physical movement (migration)  When people move they take their own culture  Why do people in North America speak English and Central speak Spanish? RELOCATION DIFFUSION

8.  The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. Leads to  Hierarchical diffusion  Contagious diffusion  Stimulus diffusion  Hierarchical diffusion- spread of ideas from a person or node (area) of power or influence to other places. Think Hip Hop. Started in New York and LA  Contagious diffusion- rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout population. Think dieses influenza, AIDS, or zombie  Stimulus – the spread of an underlying principle even if though ta specific characteristic is rejected. 90’s poor apples sales but evential change in computers EXPANSION DIFFUSION

9.  Global economy has produced greater disparities between wealth  Where are the major economic centers?  Where are most goods produced?  Uneven development  The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of globalization of the economy?  Creates aspirations to have the toys of the global culture (tv, iPhone, cars) but the uneven development and the wealth gap restrict most to purchase these DIFFUSION WITH CULTURE AND ECONOMY

10.  Topic:  I am _____________________________________________________________________________  I wonder  I hear  I see  I am _______________________________________________________________________________  I pretend  I feel  I touch  I worry  I cry  I am _______________________________________________________________________________  I understand  I say  I dream  I try  I hope  I am _________________________________________________________________________________ I AM POEM DIFFUSION

11.  Watch for ideas that were diffused and explain the process of that allowed for ideas to spread.  Record 5 ideas that spread  Explain how technology allowed for conquest and describe how conquest spreads culture. (8 sent response.) MANKIND THE STORY OF US

13. CREATE QUESTION AND SUMMARY