Monday October 31st Day 48

Mapping Monday's & Current Events

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Current Events #15 & 16

Objective: Given access to a Chromebook, students will be able to access Google MyMaps App and a Google Drive based Current Events Template from the class Blog. Using the MyMaps app and the template, students will be able to look-up current events and summarize their selected story on the template. In addition students will be able to use the MyMaps app to plot the location of these current event stories. 

Rationale: Students need to utilize the tools taught to them to ensure the learning becomes a part of their skill set. In addition, students need to become geographical aware of the world around them.

Evidence: Filling-in the Current Events template as well as using MyMaps to plot the location of the stories, will demonstrate that students have acquired the basic skills of fulfilling the  assignment.

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Friday Oct 28th Day 47

Assignments due today 

Nothing...but you should be making progress on your timeline

Timeline resource- 
Navigational Tools Article
Navigational Tools Website
Nice website with an actual map timeline

Timeline Project 

Timeline Project Directions
Time Line Example

Make sure you add your explorer to the timeline of your class

History of Map Making presentation

Here is a pdf of the Mapping History Presentation

3D mapping of the Universe - coming Monday

Wednesday & Thursday Oct 26th & 27th Days 45 & 46

Assignments due today 

(Wed per 2,4,6 /Thursday per 1,5) 

Navigation & Tools Article and Questions -- Navigational Tools

Assignments due Friday 

Nothing due, but you should have quite a bit of your timeline finished 

Here is another resource that can be used on the timeline project - Timeline resource
- Navigational Tools Website
Nice website with an actual map timeline - Check this out

Timeline Project 

Timeline Project Directions

Timeline Example

Mapping and Explorers

Objective(s):

1. The advantages of coordinating multiple geographic representations—such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations to answer geographic questions

Therefore, the student is able to:

A. Explain the advantages of using multiple geographic representations to answer geographic questions, as exemplified by being able to

• Explain how multiple geographic representations and geospatial technologies (e.g., GIS, GPS, RS, and geographic visualization) could be used to solve geographic problems (e.g., help determine where to locate a new playground, or identify dangerous street intersections within a community).
• Describe how an analysis of urbanization can be done using differ­ent geospatial technologies (e.g., RS for land use, GIS data layers to predict areas of high/low growth, GPS and GIS for identifying trans­portation issues regarding growth).
• Explain how multiple geospatial technologies can be used to solve land-use problems (e.g., effects of new farming technologies on the sustainable production of food, preservation of wetlands in bird mi­gration flyways).

Rationale: Understanding how maps were created and used allows students to understand the history of exploration and its impact on imperialism.

Evidence: Being able to articulate who pioneered/paid for the trips of explorers will allow students to list and explain the historical significance of maps.

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History of Map Making presentation

Here is a pdf of the Mapping History Presentation

Monday & Tuesday Oct 24th & 25th Days 43 & 44

Assignments due today 

(Monday per 2,4,6 /Tuesday per 1,5) 

Current Events #13 & #14
Explorers Project -Submit into Google Classroom

Modern Map Making Article Questions -Submit into Google Classroom 

Future of  Map Making Article Questions -Submit into Google Classroom -

Assignments due Wed/Thursday 

Navigation Tools Article and Questions - Navigational Tools

Here is another resource that can be used on the timeline project - Timeline resource
- Navigational Tools Website

Timeline Project 

Timeline Project Directions

Mapping and Explorers

Objective(s):

1. The advantages of coordinating multiple geographic representations—such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations to answer geographic questions

Therefore, the student is able to:

A. Explain the advantages of using multiple geographic representations to answer geographic questions, as exemplified by being able to

• Explain how multiple geographic representations and geospatial technologies (e.g., GIS, GPS, RS, and geographic visualization) could be used to solve geographic problems (e.g., help determine where to locate a new playground, or identify dangerous street intersections within a community).
• Describe how an analysis of urbanization can be done using differ­ent geospatial technologies (e.g., RS for land use, GIS data layers to predict areas of high/low growth, GPS and GIS for identifying trans­portation issues regarding growth).
• Explain how multiple geospatial technologies can be used to solve land-use problems (e.g., effects of new farming technologies on the sustainable production of food, preservation of wetlands in bird mi­gration flyways).

Rationale: Understanding how maps were created and used allows students to understand the history of exploration and its impact on imperialism.

Evidence: Being able to articulate who pioneered/paid for the trips of explorers will allow students to list and explain the historical significance of maps.

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History of Map Making presentation

Presentation  - you will have access to a pdf copy of this presentation when it has been presented
Your timeline should contain information from the presentation, the 3 articles about Hist of Map Making and the Navigational Tools Article

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Thursday and Friday Oct 20th & 21st Days 41 & 42

Assignments due today 

Early Map Making Article Summary and Questions

Assignments due NEXT week Tuesday/Wednesday 

Explorers Project should be ready to display Monday/Tuesday
Modern Map Making Article Questions - Here is the Article and questions

Future of  Map Making Article Questions - Here is the Article and questions

Mapping and Explorers

Objective(s):

1. The advantages of coordinating multiple geographic representations—such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations to answer geographic questions

Therefore, the student is able to:

A. Explain the advantages of using multiple geographic representations to answer geographic questions, as exemplified by being able to

• Explain how multiple geographic representations and geospatial technologies (e.g., GIS, GPS, RS, and geographic visualization) could be used to solve geographic problems (e.g., help determine where to locate a new playground, or identify dangerous street intersections within a community).
• Describe how an analysis of urbanization can be done using differ­ent geospatial technologies (e.g., RS for land use, GIS data layers to predict areas of high/low growth, GPS and GIS for identifying trans­portation issues regarding growth).
• Explain how multiple geospatial technologies can be used to solve land-use problems (e.g., effects of new farming technologies on the sustainable production of food, preservation of wetlands in bird mi­gration flyways).

Rationale: Understanding how maps were created and used allows students to understand the history of exploration and its impact on imperialism.

Evidence: Being able to articulate who pioneered/paid for the trips of explorers will allow students to list and explain the historical significance of maps.

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History of Map Making presentation

Presentation  - you will have access to a pdf copy of this presentation when it has been presented

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EXPLORERS PROJECT

When learning about early Map Making, it should transition into how were those maps used and or expanded into the maps we know today. For that we will study early explorers to understand why they ventured out to "discover" new lands and how maps were shaped by these voyages.

An explorer will be assigned to each student.The Explorer you are assigned is the explorer with the same number as your current seat.
i.e student sitting at seat 11 gets explorer #11
The directions for the project are listed below

This is the world Map you will use on your Explorers project - ( here ) 
This map is very big, and you should crop out the part of the Map where your Explorer took his voyage(s). Use Google Slides to draw the path(s) from where your Explorer started and where he landed. Be sure to use dates and different colors to depict different voyages (if he in fact took more than one voyage)

Explorers Project - Directions Page: ( Link )

Resources for the Project

Explorers Name and links to informational websites: ( Link )
Explorers Information website:( Link )  
All about Explorers:( Link )
Notable Explorers: ( Link )
Conquistadors: ( Link )
Mr Donn's Site: (Link)

When you finish with your Explorer Project submit it into Google Classroom Folder.
Then Start
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Modern Map Making Article - ( here )
Future Map Making Article - ( here )
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Tuesday and Wednesday Oct 18th & 19th Days 39 & 40

Assignments due this week-

Early Map Making Article Annotation and Summary

Long/Latitude Worksheet packets

Time Zone Project

Mapping and Explorers

Objective(s):

1. The advantages of coordinating multiple geographic representations—such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations to answer geographic questions

Therefore, the student is able to:

A. Explain the advantages of using multiple geographic representations to answer geographic questions, as exemplified by being able to

• Explain how multiple geographic representations and geospatial technologies (e.g., GIS, GPS, RS, and geographic visualization) could be used to solve geographic problems (e.g., help determine where to locate a new playground, or identify dangerous street intersections within a community).
• Describe how an analysis of urbanization can be done using differ­ent geospatial technologies (e.g., RS for land use, GIS data layers to predict areas of high/low growth, GPS and GIS for identifying trans­portation issues regarding growth).
• Explain how multiple geospatial technologies can be used to solve land-use problems (e.g., effects of new farming technologies on the sustainable production of food, preservation of wetlands in bird mi­gration flyways).

Rationale: Understanding how maps were created and used allows students to understand the history of exploration and its impact on imperialism.

Evidence: Being able to articulate who pioneered/paid for the trips of explorers will allow students to list and explain the historical significance of maps.

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Early Mapmaking article - How to Annotate

Early Mapmaking Article - Here is the article

Early Mapmaking Template - Here is the template

History of Map Making presentation

Presentation  - you will have access to a pdf copy of this presentation when it has been presented

Explorers Project

When learning about early Map Making, it should transition into how were those maps used and or expanded into the maps we know today. For that we will study early explorers to understand why they ventured out to "discover" new lands and how maps were shaped by these voyages.

An explorer will be assigned to each student.The Explorer you are assigned is the explorer with the same number as your current seat.
i.e student sitting at seat 11 gets explorer #11
The directions for the project are listed below

This is the world Map you will use on your Explorers project - ( here ) 
This map is very big, and you should crop out the part of the Map where your Explorer took his voyage(s). Use Google Slides to draw the path(s) from where your Explorer started and where he landed. Be sure to use dates and different colors to depict different voyages (if he in fact took more than one voyage)

Explorers Project - Directions Page: ( Link )

Resources for the Project

Explorers Name and links to informational websites: ( Link )
Explorers Information website:( Link )  
All about Explorers:( Link )
Notable Explorers: ( Link )
Conquistadors: ( Link )

Monday Oct 17th Day 38

Longitude and Latitude Assignmnets

Make sure you upload the 4 diff worksheets from Thurs/Friday
Make sure you turn-in the Time Zone assignment
Make sure you have turned-in the Scavenger Hunt assignment

Don't do the EdPuzzle video assignment

Make sure you upload your Current Events 10 & 11 stories

Mapping Monday's & Current Events

Objective: Given access to a Chromebook, students will be able to access Google MyMaps App and a Google Drive based Current Events Template from the class Blog. Using the MyMaps app and the template, students will be able to look-up current events and summarize their selected story on the template. In addition students will be able to use the MyMaps app to plot the location of these current event stories. 

Rationale: Students need to utilize the tools taught to them to ensure the learning becomes a part of their skill set. In addition, students need to become geographical aware of the world around them.

Evidence: Filling-in the Current Events template as well as using MyMaps to plot the location of the stories, will demonstrate that students have acquired the basic skills of fulfilling the  assignment.

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Thursday & Friday Oct 13th & 14th Days 36 & 37

Latitude and Longitude Section

Objective(s): Presented with a presentation covering the basic elements of Latitude and Longitude, students will be bale to identify various locations around the world based on their latitude and longitude coordinates.
-The student, when requested, will identify at least 10 places on the world map using the given latitude and longitude points to the nearest whole degree with 90% accuracy.

- The student, when requested, will identify the latitude and longitude points of at least 10 places on the world map to the nearest whole degree with 90% accuracy.

Rationale: Understanding how places are positioned and identified on a world map, allows students to better grasp the various characteristics on locations, such as climate, vegetation, animal life etc.

Evidence: Being able to use and understand Latitude and Longitude on a world map, allows students to locate just about anything.

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Finish Longitude and Latitude Presentation
Latitude and Longitude Review video -( here )

Timed Quiz/Contest -Latitude/Longitude - ( here )

TimeZone

TimeZone vid ( here )
TimeZone Activity/Project - I will provide a blank piece of Printer Paper for this assignment

Daylight Savings Video - Why is this still a thing Video

EdPuzzle Video Questions

Go to Google Classroom to get the link

Classwork/Homework for Monday

All of the activities below can be placed on a google Doc and uploaded into Google Classroom into 1 assignment
Longitude and Latitude Worksheet   
Measuring Longitude and Latitude
Mapping Locations in Calif activity
Mapping Locations in the USA activity

Tuesday and Wednesday Oct 11 & 12 Days 34 & 35

History of Mapping 

Today we are starting the Unit on Latitude and Longitude as well as European Exploration

Introduction to the Unit

We are beginning our Unit on Latitude/Longitude  Time zones and the History of Cartography (map making). In this unit students will learn about the challenges early map makers had in representing an accurate picture of their surroundings. Many early map makers had limited to no technology at their disposal and had to develop a way to represent various land features, coastlines, mountains, etc. This led to many early maps being incredibly limited and inaccurate. These inaccuracies led many expeditions to unknown parts of the world and resulted in some very destructive behaviors as well as new found places and people. This unit will cover various explorers, and the lands they mapped-out for future exploration.

Objectives- 
*Given a blank piece of paper, the student will experience the challenges of a cartographer in producing and accurate map based solely on verbal instructions.
*Given a fictitious land mass to view, students will use only cardinal direction in describing the details to a amateur cartographer in producing a map.
*Given a description of a fictitious island, students will use recently acquired mapping skills to produce an accurate replication of the described land.
* Given a blank piece of paper students will be able to draw a relatively accurate map of a familiar place they know very well.

Rationale:-  Understanding the challenges with making accurate maps will teach the students the reasons why early explorers were usually dumbfounded when venturing off into unchartered waters

Evidence:- Students will be able to use an atlas and latitude/longitude coordinates to locate various places within the world as part of a scavenger hunt

Does this look very accurate?

Today you will get a chance to experience what being an ancient cartographer was like...
In this activity each student will play the role of a mapmaker (Cartographer) as well as an explorer who visits uncharted lands.

After the Mapping activity, we will go over Latitude and Longitude and Seasons and do a scavenger hunt as well as a Latitude and Longitude Packet - Lat Long Scavenger Hunt

Once the presentation is finished I will post a pdf version of the presentation for students to have.

Lastly (if time permits), we will go over time zones and their history, as well as introducing the Early Map Making article which we will summarize/annotate using a google doc with tables.

Monday Oct 10th Day 33

Columbus Day?

Why do some places still celebrate Columbus Day?

Journal Entry - Should the USA celebrate Columbus Day? Columbus never actually stepped foot in America, did he "discover America?"

Columbus Myths

Mapping Monday's & Current Events

Objective: Given access to a Chromebook, students will be able to access Google MyMaps App and a Google Drive based Current Events Template from the class Blog. Using the MyMaps app and the template, students will be able to look-up current events and summarize their selected story on the template. In addition students will be able to use the MyMaps app to plot the location of these current event stories. 

Rationale: Students need to utilize the tools taught to them to ensure the learning becomes a part of their skill set. In addition, students need to become geographical aware of the world around them.

Evidence: Filling-in the Current Events template as well as using MyMaps to plot the location of the stories, will demonstrate that students have acquired the basic skills of fulfilling the  assignment.

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Thursday & Friday Sept 29th & 30th Days 31 & 32

Mapping of the School (Last Day)

Last Day of the Mapping the school scavenger Hunt project

Objective: Given access to a fully functioning Chromebook with access to Google Docs, students will import a map of the school and place various shapes and pictures on its surface to identify various locations on campus as part of a scavenger hunt activity

Rationale:  Understanding the campus and where things are located will assist Freshmen in knowing their "place" of school

Evidence: Accurately and successfully placing pics and shapes on the school map within the time allotted

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You should be plotting the various classrooms onto the school map template today

Style #1 - Make a square, put the class number inside the square, modify the shape of the square to fit the available space, copy and paste the square for all additional classes

Style #2 - Make a larger square and use lines to separate the classes