Third Quarter

Week 1 (Jan 25 -  28)

• Day 1: Introduction/Icebreakers
• Fads activity
• NASA simulation
• Day 2: Introduction/Icebreakers
• Broken squares activity
• Go over syllabus
• World Map review (continents/lines/oceans)
• Find items in the room from foreign countries (EC)
• Homework: bring all supplies for class next week

Week 2 (Jan 31 -  Feb 4)

• Day 1: 5 Themes of Geography
• Introduction of the 5 themes (lecture/notes)
• Go over newspaper analysis expectations
• Video: 5 Themes for Planet Earth
• Day  2: 5 Themes of Geography
• Check materials and newspaper articles
• Begin room map assignment
• Measure classroom dimensions
• Day 3: Map projections
• Go over classroom maps, expectations for room map project
• Scale
• Grid
• Rose
• Key
• Project due Wed Feb 16. Check out the grading scale
• Balloon-popping exercise
• Notes: Advantages of maps vs. advantages of globes
• Notes: Latitude and Longitude
• Work on classroom maps

Week 3 (Feb 7 - 11)

• Day 1: Latitude and Longitude
• Review Definitions, ways of measuring
• Latitude Longitude worksheets (due next period)
• Find cities' coordinates -EC (due next period)
• Day 2: Latitude and Longitude
• Work time for:
• Room map project and
• Forensics crime scene map
• Activity "Where in the world was Mr. Stutz"

Week 4 (Feb 14 - 18)

• Day  1: Latitude, Longitude, and Location
• Finish Activity "Where in the world was Mr. Stutz"
• Computer lab for intro to Geography resources
• Check Lat/Long answers against internet: Where in the World Part 2
• Day  2: 
• Room Map Projects Due
• Finish Where in the World Part 2
• Review for Quiz (Continents, Oceans, Lines, Themes, Projections, Maps)
• Day  3: Room Maps/Computer resources
• News Articles Due
• Where in the World Part 2 due
• Quiz (Continents, Oceans, Lines, Themes, Projections, Maps)
• Landforms/Waterforms worksheets (due in class)

Week 5 (Feb 21 - 24)

• Day 1: Population
• Review history of world population and graph
• To computer lab for Population Assignment #1, due next class
• Day 2: Population
• Population Assignment #1 due
• 5 Themes book exercise pg 20-22 (due in class)
• Special Event (TBA)

Week 6 (Feb 26 - March 3)

• Day 1: Population
• Assignment #1, due
• Begin Assignment # 2, due at the end of week 7 (see the grading rubric)
• Day 2: Population
• Lists of positives and negatives about population growth, discuss
• Work on Assignment # 2
• Day 3: Population
• Short Day (10:45 dismissal)
• Work on Assignment # 2

Week 7 (March 6 - March 10)

• Day 1: Population
• Work on Assignment # 2
• Day 2: Population
• Assignment # 2: Due today! Presentations begin
• (see the grading rubric)

Week 8 (March 13 - March 17)

• Day 1: Population
• Finish presentations
• Day 2: Population
• Quiz on North/South American maps
• Begin project #3, due next week
• Day 3: Population
• Continue work on project #3
• Begin Europe map, quiz on April 14

Week 9 (March 20 - March 24)

• Day 1: Population
• Take sample Census
• Continue work on project #3 due next class period
• Day 2: Population
• Project #3 DUE TODAY
• Reading "A Modest Proposal"
• Video "The People Bomb" (if time)

Week 10 (March 27 - April 1)

• Day 1: Special Purpose Maps
• Vocabulary review: workbook vocab for quiz, questions pg 50-51
• Cartograms: US Census map activities
• Day 2: Human/Environmental Interaction
• Begin project on Drugs
• Europe Map Quiz on April 14
• Day 3: Human/Environmental Interaction
• Census Maps due
• Begin project on Drugs
• Europe Map Quiz on April 14