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• Using your phone, look up what is at the location 48.85 degrees North and 2.29 degrees East.

GeographyUnit—1 Part—2

Pgs.— 18-24

Weekly Jobs

• At the end of each class students are required to make sure their group is clean and everything is turned in.

• #1-Turn in all work (Make sure group work is stapled and folded correctly!)

• #2-Wipe down all desks in group.• #3 and #4- Clean up ANYTHING around your group’s

area (paper, trash, etc.)

Before—Guess the Lesson

Guess the Lesson—Possible Answers• Topography• Elevation

• Latitude and Longitude• Map Key• Symbols

• Coordinates

Learning Goals

• ALCOS #1:Describe the world in spatial terms using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies.

• Goal: Tell me the essentials of maps and how they show geographic patterns.

Read—Pgs. 18-19 • Read through “Elements of a Map” then STOP.

• T—Title (1)• H—Headings/Subheadings (5)• I—Introduction (1)• V—Vocab/Key Terms defined (7)• S—Summary of the lesson at the end. (1)

• A 3-D representation of the world is called a globe.

• A 2-D representation of the world is called a map.

• Lines of latitude run east and west, parallel to the equator that runs across the center of the Earth.

• Lines of longitude run north and south from the North Pole to the South Pole. The prime meridian passes through Greenwich, England and is 0 degrees.

• A hemisphere is a half of Earth.

QARs• Lines that run east and west are called what?

• Lines that run north and south are called what?

• What line passes through Greenwich, England?

Read—Pgs. 20-21• Read through “Map Scale” then STOP.

• Lesson Outline: Reading the pages listed above, create a lesson outline using the following template.

I. Heading for lesson goes here.A. Important information regarding the lesson goes here.

1. Key Facts and Vocabulary goes here.2. “ “ “ “ “ “

- Other/smaller information goes here.B. Important information regarding the lesson goes here.

• A map’s scale shows how much distances on Earth is shown on the map.

QARs• How is distance between places shown on a map?

Read—Pg. 23

• Read through “Political and Physical Maps” then STOP.

• 1’s: Key Term Keeper (Make sure you have every key term defined.)

• 2’s and 3’s : Key Fact Keeper (Find at least 3 key facts for each part of our lesson.)

• Map makers, or cartographers, make maps to show different things.

• Political maps show things such as borders between countries, physical maps show things such as elevation.

QARs• What are people called who create maps?

• What is one thing political maps show?

QAR Answers

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