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Geography - Coggle Diagram
Geography
Essential Element one: The world in spatial terms
Maps as models of our world
Informal block play
Teaching map and globe skills
Maps of the classroom
Neighborhood and community models
Pictorial maps
Mental maps
Story maps
Commercial maps
Computer based maps
Specific map and globe skills instruction
Map symbols
Place location
Cardinal directions
Map scale
The globe
Thinking Geographically
Asking geographical questions
What do you see?
What is this place like?
Why is it here?
What is significant about this place?
How is it like or different from other places you know about?
Acquiring geographical information
Primary and secondary sources including places to observe an maps.
Organizing geographical information
Charts, models, graphs, illustrations, narratives, timelines, maps, or clear written or oral summaries.
Analyzing geographical information
Answering why? Supporting ideas.
Answering geographical questions
Essential Elements 2, 3, 4, and 5
Essential element 3: Physical systems
Essential element 2: Places and regions
Essential element 4: Human systems
Essential element 5: Environment and society
What is Geography? & Why is geography important?
Integrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of th world in the study people, places, and environments. The science of earth and place/ the study of Earth's natural environment and how it influences people.
Geography is an integrative discipline because trait teaches content, skills, and thinking processes by taking advantage of natural connection among it.
It is important to know about people and places around the world, geography can help us effectively face the challenges of our time.
What should students know or be able to do?
Five themes of geography
Location: Position on Earth's surface/ Where are we on Earth's surface?
Place: Physical and human characteristics/ Physical characteristics include rivers, lakes, mountains, wildlife, sold, precipitation, beaches, etc. Human characteristics deal with the changes that people have made to the environment.
Relationships within places: Humans and environment/ Physical features of location affect people in different ways. How people have been changed by the environment, how the environment has been changed by people, and how people depend on the environment.
Movement: Humans interacting on Earth/ How they are connected with and depended on other regions and other people in the world.
Regions: How they form and change/ an area on Earth's surface whose characteristics make it different form other areas.