We have begun looking at the five factors involved in the study of geography: Location, Region, Movement, Place, and Human Environmental Interaction. We focused on the concept of “place” with the settlement discussions and activities that students undertook prior to and during the Camp Sweet settlement project.
We delved further into the location factor by locating and following the current storms associated with this year’s Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes. The students had the opportunity to plot the changing coordinates of the many storms that existed in the oceans that further solidified their knowledge of absolute geographical coordinates using latitude and longitude. As a result, we may have even seen a passion for meteorology developing in some students.
We will be winding up this unit with a review and quiz by the first part of the week of September23rd. 5.3 and 5.4 will have this unit test on September 19th.
We delved further into the location factor by locating and following the current storms associated with this year’s Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes. The students had the opportunity to plot the changing coordinates of the many storms that existed in the oceans that further solidified their knowledge of absolute geographical coordinates using latitude and longitude. As a result, we may have even seen a passion for meteorology developing in some students.
We will be winding up this unit with a review and quiz by the first part of the week of September23rd. 5.3 and 5.4 will have this unit test on September 19th.