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GEOGRAPHY LOOKS AT EVENTS IN SPATIAL TERMS…

If events or features are mapped, what patterns emerge?

How can analysis of patterns inform decision making?

GEOGRAPHY HAS AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE.

Geographers look at the earth and it’s physical systems in relationship to humans and their activity.

STANDARD ONE:Students will develop a personal geographic

framework or “mental map”, and understand the uses of maps

and other geo-graphics.

GR. 9-12

Students will identify geographic patterns which emerge when collected data is mapped, and analyze mapped patterns through such common geographic principles as:

HIERARCHYPatterns at a detailed scale may

be related to patterns at a more general scale.

Example- Villages and small towns rely on clinics or local hospitals in small cities. Small cities rely on major cities for top level services- like medical care.

DIFFUSION

Describes patterns in the movement of people, ideas, diseases, trade or other items across space.

Expansion diffusion- spreads out from a fixed point

Relocation diffusion- follows a moving object

Relocation Diffusion

Expansion Diffusion

COMPLEMENTARITYThe mutual exchange of people

or goods among places usually occurs over the shortest possible distance.

Food Stores

Law Offices

Hospitals

Travel patterns in Southwest Iowa

STANDARD ONE BStudents will apply the analysis

of mapped patterns to the solution of problems.

Examples:Best business locationCause of pollutionPlan a bus routeSuggest best voting districts

STANDARD TWO:

Students will develop a knowledge of the ways humans modify and respond to the natural environment.

GRADES 9-12Students will understand the

Earth’s physical environment as a set of interconnected systems (ecosystems) and the ways humans have perceived, reacted to, and changed environments at local to global scales.

STANDARD THREE

Students will develop an understanding of the diversity of human culture and the unique nature of places.

GRADES 9-12Students will

understand the processes which result in

• distinctive cultures,

• economic activity, and

• settlement form in particular locations across the globe.

STANDARD 4

Students will develop an understanding of the character and use of regions and the connections between and among them.

GR. 9-12

Students will apply knowledge of the types of regions and methods of drawing boundaries to interpret earth’s changing complexity.

SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES: Drawing boundaries, regionalizing

based on mapped data (Theissen polygons are one method)

Using regionalization as a means to analyze and solve problems