1. Day 4
Mr. Harris

2. 8th Grade Primary and Secondary Source Review Balboa Article
The Sacred Rac
Geography of Us

3. Opening Activity Brainstorm Winning Team wins prize
Come up with as many types of Primary and Secondary Source types and examples as you can
Be ready to explain/justify
Winning Team wins prize

4. Balboa Article http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/balboa/
Read the article together as a group
Make a claim about the article (Sentence format) Group
Evidence: Give examples, quotes, or other text based references that support your claim (bullet points, at least three) Group
Interpretation: Explain how your evidence supports your claim. (paragraph format, 4+ sentences) Individual
Have them fold papers into thirds, every student needs paper, rotate paragraph reading, Claims all need to be the same, evidence needs to be the same. Interpretation on their own in 4 or more complete sentences.

5. The Sacred Rac of the Asu Tribe
Popcorn Read the article
Answer Rac Questions
Questions are in a word document. Explain “popcorn reading”

6. Historical Geography of Us
American history is the story of migration
Native Americans, European explorers, and settlers, worldwide immigration, migration between states…
We are going to visualize a bit of this story by using illustrating a bulletin board with your birth places
Even though we all live in Seminole County now, that has not always been the case

7. Directions
You will cut a small paper into the shape of your birth state
Use books/planners and find a map
Label your state sign with
Your birth city’s name
A dot identifying the city’s location (or star if the city is the capital)
Your name
Turn in to Mr. Harris

8. 6th Grade Finish up Goals from Day 3 Geography Right Here Right Now
Scale Introduction
Mix and Match Vocabulary
Map Projections (Anchor)
Six Essential Elements

9. Opening Activity
Brainstorm the different kinds of maps you have seen/known
What do they show?
Who could benefit from them?
Why are they important?

10. Goals
If we haven’t finished, lets

11. Introduce Scales Lets take a few minutes and look at our scales
These are for each Chapter/Topic
Well be using these the whole year
Become familiar

12. Mix and Match Vocabulary
Mix up
Passed out to class
Find the Word or Definition to match your card
Lets discuss and evaluate

13. Geography Right Here, Right Now Tools
Tools
GPS
Globes/Maps
Scales/Keys/Legends
Latitude/Longitude

14. Geography Anchor Lesson
Doc 3- e6e6-446a-b85b-8c8652e1b6ca/Geography%203.pdf
Maps- Doc 1
Document Questions
For each map

15. Longitude and Latitude
Online Finder