1. Please have the following materials:
BELLWORK
Happy Monday! Today we will be learning about the five themes of geography.
Please have the following materials:
Signed Plan for Success (I will come around to collect these)
Pen or pencil
Composition notebook

2. Five Themes of Geography

3. BELLWORK
Discuss with your table groups: How have people changed the world? Write down three examples on your whiteboard.

4. Location
Geographic location refers to a specific point or area on the Earth’s surface
Relative Location: location described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another and may associate a particular place with another.
Absolute Location: location is latitude and longitude coordinates (global location) or a street address (local)

6. Place
Geographic place often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes
Human Characteristics: these characteristics are derived from the ideas and action of people that result in changes to the environment, such as buildings, roads, clothing and food habits
Physical Characteristics: these characteristics include mountains, rivers, soil, beaches, wildlife (natural)

8. Human-Environmental Interactions
How humans adapt to the environment around them. Think Alaska vs Hawaii.
Humans Adapt to the Environment: humans wear clothing that is suitable for varied weather summer and winter; rain and shine, etc.
Humans Modify the Environment: humans heat and cool buildings for comfort
Humans Depend on the Environment: depend on environment for water, food, etc.

10. Ideas: fashions and fads, technology
Movement
People move a lot!
People: Humans occupy places unevenly on Earth because of environment, but we’re also social beings. We interact with each other through travel, trade, information flow and political events.
Goods: imports and exports and mass communication have shaped the world
Ideas: fashions and fads, technology

12. Regions
Region divides the world into manageable units for geographic study. Regions have some sort of characteristic that unifies the area.
Formal: those defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (i.e. USA, Phoenix, Arizona)
Functional: those defined by function (i.e. school districts)
Vernacular: those loosely defined by people’s perception (i.e. The Southwest, The Middle East, Sunbelt, Bible Belt)