An Introduction to Human Geography (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ce4P05TrNQ

Barrons Ch. 1 Outline

History and Development of the Discipline
• Early cartographers
 3rd C. BC Eratosthenes calculated the earth’s circumference
 2nd C. AD Ptolemy rough maps and landmasses
 1400s explorers (Columbus & Magellan)
 18th-20th C. geography became a respect field of study and scholars began to synthesize knowledge.
• Darwin’s theory of evolution
• Wegner’s theory of continental drift
• 1864—George Perkins Marsh wrote Man and Nature
• 1925—Carl Sauer proposed that cultural landscapes be the focus of geographic inquiry which began environmental geography and cultural ecology
• 1960s—quantitative revolution
o Empirical measurements
o Hypothesis testing
o Mathematical models
o Computer programs
• 1970s—with more complex computers and technology we have
o Remote sensing
o Global Positioning System (satellites)
o Geographical Information Systems (software programs)

• Geography Today
 Broadly defined as “the study of human activities on the earth’s surface”
• Population
• Cultural
• Economic
• Urban
• Agricultural
• Political
 Today’s focus is on environmental geography
• How humans have altered the earth
• Are our actions sustainable?


• Thinking Geographically
 Developing a spatial perspective
• Looking at relationship between places
o Why do certain phenomena occur in certain places?
o How do places interact economically, socially, and culturally?
o Why are places alike or different?
 Appreciation of scale
• Ratio between distance on a map and distance on earth’s surface
• Looking at the local and the global
o How each affects the other
• Looking at the neighborhood, city, metro, and region (small to large)
o Regions
 Defined as an area that contains some type of unifying social or physical characteristics
• Functional (Nodal) Regions
o Specific characteristics
o San Francisco Bay area (all depend on SF)
• Formal
o Uniform specific characteristics
o Rolling hills
o Cultural similarities (practice same religion)
• Vernacular (Perceptual) Regions
o Exists in people’s minds
 The Deep South
 Southern accent
 Southern Baptist
 Fried food
o Sense of Place – People’s attachment to these regions
o US has 10 major ones
 The Northwest
 West Coast
 Inter-Mountain West
 Southwest
 Great Plains
 Midwest
 South
 New England
 Mid-Atlantic
 South Florida
• Understand and synthesize various types of data
o Qualitative data
 Associated with culture or region
 Non-mathematical
 Interviews
 Empirical observation
 Interpretation of texts, art, maps, etc.
o Quantitative
 Uses math
 Measures
 Statistical
o Idiographic
 Uniqueness of particular region
o Nomothetic
 Universally applicable


• Applications of Geography
 Environmental studies
• Global warming
• Climate change
 Human conflict
 Population predictions

Week of Aug. 30

Human Geography
Objectives: Understand and use Unit 1 vocab.
8/30/10
1. Vocab. Writing
--With LP write a paragraph using any 10 of your vocabulary words. Underline the words. Paragraph must be coherent, legible, and geographically informed.
2. Enter bus numbers in roll book.
3. VIS 5 words

8/31/10
Objective:
a. to expand on the purpose of Human Geography
b. to list different kinds of regions
b. to outline video clip: What is Human Geography.
1. get samples of VIS
2. collect paragraphs
3. continue with Promethean Board (outline video)
4. Choose two quotes and highlight key words; paraphrase quote; provide examples.

9/1/10
1. Make a geographic time line noting the work of the geographers mentioned in Ch. 1
2. Continue Promethean Board flipchart
3. Pattison's regional analysis (do one instead of two)
4. Finish outlining chapter

9/2/10
Objective: test review
1. Review flipchart
2. vocabulary bingo
3. computer research

9/3/10
1. vocab. test
2. Writing Prompt:
Thinking about what you have learned in Human Geography this week. Now convince your friend to take a Human Geography course.
3. Check vocab & outlines

Vocabulary Link

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo101/glossary.html#site

First Day Introductions

Name______________________ First Day Introductions
If you could go to any destination in the world, where would you go and
why?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where is your family’s cultural hearth?____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever been outside the US? Where? What were the circumstances?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Have you ever lived in another country? Explain.____________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What do you think this class is about? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What do you want to learn from this class? ________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What classroom rules do you think are important? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How do you learn best?
____________________________________________________________________________________
Is there anything special that I need to know about you? (confidential)
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who rocks your world and why?__________________________________________________________

What would you like to ask me? __________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
Name one thing you’d like to share that few people know about you.____________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________

High Yield Strategies for Learning

Haley’s High Yield Strategies

Setting Objectives
Unit Objectives
Daily Agenda
Review Objectives

Identify Similarities and Differences
T-Charts
Venn Diagrams

Summarizing and Note Taking
Outlining Chapters
Read, Pair, Share
note one key sentence per section
VIS (Vocabulary Instructional Strategy)

Word Clue Context Examples Non-examples




Homework and Practice
Review notes
Study vocabulary
Watch multimedia presentations
Writing assignments
Study for tests
Working on projects
Research
Presentation

Week of Aug. 23

Human Geography

August 23, 2010
Warm up -- Questionnaire
Seating Chart
Index cards
Bathroom passes
Homework: Read first 5 vocab. words and definitions. Highlight key definition words. Complete VIS diagram using 5 words.

August 24
1. Warm-up – VIS diagrams 5 new words
2. Learning Partner—Each take a word and explain it to your partner until all words have been explained.
3. Task Assignments
Computer tech. person

• LCD tech. person
• VCR/DVD tech person
• Distributor
• Collector
• Phone operator
• Housekeeping engineer
• Office/errand runner
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Score keepers

Homework:
Study Conduct Code (Block 1)

August 25
Warm-up--hostility sheet
Collect forms
Hearth discussions
Pre-test


August 26
Warm-up—list 4 strategies you’d like to see as group norms
Review procedures
Group project
Pre-test review
Impulse control
Web site
Homework: finish Unit 1 vocab. Test next week

August 27
Promethean Board:

• Inspiration Groups
• What is Human Geography?

Check notebooks
Conduct Code Test (1st Block)
Web site interactive map
Homework: Study Vocab. words and any notes you have taken. Test on Fri. 9/3.