Global 9-Lesson Two-9/17/2020

Global 9-Lesson Two-9/16/2020

BIG PICTURE QUESTION: what is geography and how does it impact your life?

Open Ended

What can you do with your life if you study geography?

Poll

Why is it important to know how to read a map?

• It's not, maps are obsolete

• They can help predict the weather

• Maps can tell you information about time

• Maps helps us know where we are and how to go somewhere new

Open Ended

How would your life change in you lived in a desert?

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How would your life change in you lived on an island?

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How would your life change in you lived in a rainforest?

Open Ended

What is part of the the problem and a major solution to the world's geographic problems? Explain your answer.

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What is an example of physical geography that you can see out your window?

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What is an example of human geography that you can see out your window?

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If someone is ethnocentric, what would they say about their own country? What would they say about someone else's country?

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We refer to New York as in "the north" and Texas as in "the south". How is this an example of perspective?