1.  Sit at your assigned table with your numbered team.  Did your turn in your student survey and syllabus to the blue box?  Introduce yourself to your team; name, what you are most excited about for this school year  Nothing on your desks except something to write with.  Objective  SWBAT  Students Will Be Able To  use the 5 Themes of geography to organize geographical information like regions, and place by creating a poster representing that theme

2. ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION  Organizing information using a variety of sources is critical to acquisition, application, evaluation, and communication of social studies concepts.  How do geographers acquire, organize, and interpret information?

3. MRHELPMRHELP Movement: This theme studies movement of ideas, fads, goods, people, and resources across the planet. Region: unit of space that is unified by the presence of some characteristic. Regions can be formal, functional, or perceptual. Human-Environment Interaction: Considers how humans adapt to and modify the environment. Humans shape the landscape through their interaction with the land; this has both positive and negative effects on the environment. Location: Focuses on where something is located exactly or in relation to something else. Place: Place describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.

6.  Search Absolute Location-Use Images to Describe  Search Relative Location- Use Images to Describe  Possible Structure, Venn Diagram  Be able to present and describe the differences between the above mentioned using example from the immediate area you live in.

7.  Place considers human and physical characteristics of a given location. It includes landforms, feel, and culture of the people.  Your image should include a depiction of “West Texas”

8.  Search the word: Modify  Search the word: Adapt  Be able to explain the difference between the two above terms as it relates to human activity.  Images should include examples of a modification as well as an adaptation. You may need to search for examples.

9.  Search Migration  Search Migration Push Factors  Search Migration Pull Factors  Search Infrastructure  Search Globalization  Your image should explain how all the above could be interconnected.

10.  Search Formal Region  Search Functional Region  Search Perceptual Region  Your image should include an image of the 9 th grade commons that explains all of the above regions.

11. Find your numbered desk. Open your blue book to page 16. Match your numbered desk to the correct definition on pages 16 through 21. Underline that term. EX: If I am sitting in desk number 13 I should underline El Nino in my blue book.

12. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONOBJECTIVE  How do physical processes shape patterns in the Earth’s Environment?  SWBAT  Students Will Be Able To  Research, describe, and teach one of earth’s major physical processes while completing geographic speed dating.

13. MONSERRAT, SPAIN SUMMER 2014

14. RESEARCH SPEED DATING  7 Minutes to Research  2 Minutes Per Station (Bell Will Be Transition Sound)

15. CANVAS 1) Regions Module Closes Saturday Night at 11:59 PM 2) Physical Process Module Opens Saturday Night and Closes Monday Night 3) Global Environmental Issues Module Opens Friday Night and Closes Tuesday Night 4) Unit 1 Physical Geography Vocabulary Cards: Quiz Friday 5) Unit 1 Online Textbook Test Closes Friday September 2 nd