1. Let’s consider this process and try to build a couple
Some Definitions
Let’s consider this process and try to build a couple

2. Why are definitions important?
If you can make your own then
It shows you understand the concept
You are able to explain it to others (not parrot)
You should be able to illustrate why the concept is important

3. Where are definitions used?
Everywhere in life
Those in education spend their careers defining
Those working in NGOs are always educating
Even clerks at Lowes need to be able to define things

4. Definition Building Divide text or powerpoint material into bullets
Rank them by order of importance
Translate these points into sentence(s) using your own words.
Insert examples in the definition

5. Rather complex definition
Human geography is one of the two major branches of geography (versus physical geography) and is often called cultural geography. Human geography is the study of the many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and then travel as people continually move across various areas. Some of the main cultural phenomena studied in human geography include language, religion, different economic and governmental structures, art, music, and other cultural aspects that explain how and/or why people function as they do in the areas in which they live. Globalization is also becoming increasingly important to the field of human geography as it is allowing these specific aspects of culture to easily travel across the globe.
Cultural landscapes are also important because they link culture to the physical environments in which people live. This is vital because it can either limit or nurture the development of various aspects of culture. For instance, people living in a rural area are often more culturally tied to the natural environment around them than those living in a large metropolitan area. This is generally the focus of the "Man-Land Tradition" in the Four Traditions of geography and studies human impact on nature, the impact of nature on humans, and people's perception of the environment.

6. Little Easier: Human Geography
Is a science that deals with three questions: Where are things – that is it looks at and for PATTERNS, second Why/How things exist at a specific location – that is it looks at and for PROCESSES that created the patterns, finally it considers why they are Significant – that is what are the IMPACTS of something at a given location.

7. Human Geography: Bullet Points
Is a spatial science that deals with three questions:
Where are things – Looks at and for PATTERNS
Why/How things are at a location – Looks at and for PROCESSES
Why they are Significant -- IMPACTS

8. Human Geography: Points Ranked
Is a spatial science deals with three questions:
PATTERNS
PROCESSES
IMPACTS

9. Human Geography: Points Ranked
Is a spatial science that
deals with three questions:
Where are things – Looks at and for PATTERNS
Why/How things are at a location – Looks at and for PROCESSES
Why they are Significant -- IMPACTS

10. In Class Exercise: Now you finish
Break class into groups
Turn these points into complete sentences
Use you own words
Add illustrations

11. Now you finish