Around the World – Across the Years

Journal Topic – Write out four to six things you learn about the deserts of our world from watching Planet Earth: Deserts.  If you missed this video in class, you will either need to get the video out of the Mt. Gilead library or check out a book about deserts from the library and write six facts, in sentence form, about deserts.

Journal Entry for 5/13/08
1.    How did the establishment of plantations influence the Atlantic slave trade?
2.    Why did some African people help supply slaves to European traders?
3.    Why were the slave trading posts established along Africa’s west coast?

Journal topic – There are four different types of graphs on pp. 474-475 in The World and its People.  Read “Understand It” about the four different types of graphs and answer the “Explore It” questions 1-5 on page 474.

Journal Topic – How can an elevation map be useful? When would people use an elevation map? For example, you might use an elevation map if you were going on a skiing, farming, going hunting, or looking for a warm place to vacation.  How would you use an elevation map in these circumstances?  How might an elevation map be important if you were a pilot flying a private airplane?  Other ideas our class had involved using an elevation map when cooking or hiking?  How else might an elevation map be useful?  Write a paragraph explaining how you might use an elevation map.

Journal Topic – Write at least one fact in sentence form about each of the following mountain ranges: the Andes, the Rockies, the Alps, and the Himalayas.

Today we also watched the Mountains segment of the BBC / Discovery Channel production of Planet Earth.

1. Pass out map for the week.
2. Correct quizzes from Friday.
3. Reminder that journals will be picked up tomorrow.
4. No journal entries this week.  Start reading & discussing p. 43 in “Ohio Books”.

Journals will be picked up and graded on Tuesday.  Click on the appropriate class to see what you should have in the journal.

1st period

2nd Period

6th period

8th period

1. Review five major themes of geography.

2. Journal entry – Use one of the five major themes of geography to describe Mt. Gilead to someone who had never been here before. Tell me which theme you are using and then describe Mt. Gilead using that theme.

3. Review for Thursday’s quiz by doing p. 15, 1-6 & p. 22, 1-8

4. Finish Map Jumble Activity as a class.

Journal Entry Topic

4/22/08    State and explain three different kinds of maps.  See the top of page 20 in your Ohio books.

- For example: “One kind of map is a physical map.  A physical map…”

Journal Entry

4/21    Tomorrow is the democrat primary in Pennsylvania where voters will decide between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Why is it important for voters to be able to choose between different candidates in a democracy?  What kind of differences might be important between two candidates?
-    health care
-    the military (Iraq, The War on Terror, Iran, Israel, Afghanistan)
-    moral issues (abortion, prayer in schools, capital punishment)
-    supreme court judges
-    taxes
-    how government spends money
-    immigration
-    the price of gasoline & alternative fuels
-    2nd amendment rights

* We are now working on global grid coordinates.