1. Five Themes of Geography

2. Warm Up:
Which type of geographer would research whether or not extra busses are needed in an area on a Saturday night?
Justify your answer.

3. Location, Location, Location
Theme 1:
Location: describes where something is.
Example: The building below is in San Francisco, California

4. Theme two Place: describes the features that make a site unique.
Example:
Citi Field is where the New York Mets play their home games.

5. Theme 3
Regions: are areas that share common characteristics.
Example: A desert. Deserts are regions because they share distinctive climates, animal and plant life.

6. Get moving!
Theme 4:
Movement: analyzes how and why people and things move.
Why do people use escalators?
Why would a person use a plane?

7. Last, but not least
Human-Environment Interaction: the way people interact with their environment.

8. Work Time:
Group A: Create your own example for each theme of geography. Analyze each definition and decide are there too many themes? Not enough? Or the right amount. Justify your answer.
Group B: Differentiate between region, location and place. Why are they not one big theme?
Group C: List three examples of how people move and identify one reason they may use that type of movement for each.