Leonard's Lines of Latitude

After our current events discussion, we reviewed the vocabulary and map skills that will be on the test Tuesday. As we reviewed the Five Themes of Geography, students were able to examine how people, places, and the environment interact. 

Homework:  Prepare for Map Skills test Tuesday - - Have a safe and restful weekend!

 

Today students continued to present their map skills group assignments...what great teachers they are! We also watched a short video of the Five Themes of Geography and will complete a themes assignment tomorrow.  As we prepare to take our Map skills post test, students are reminded to review their geography skills (pages 6-11) and terms each night. 

Homework: 

1.  Review Five Themes pages 35-40

2.  Map Skills Post test Tuesday, Sept 2nd

Today students took cornell notes on eight key vocabulary terms.  We'll complete the other eight tomorrow.  Tonight would be a good time to read over these terms to begin preparing for our upcoming quiz...more information will follow. 

Mapping groups continued today with students working on a particular map skill presentation.  Groups will begin sharing these with their  classmates tomorrow. 

Homework:  Stay dry...study geography terms (pg 7 of notebook).

After completing our locations warmup, we spent time establishing our time clocks.  Scheduling appointments took a little longer than I anticipated but it will help with grouping later in the nine weeks. 

We'll organize tomorrow, so students are reminded to bring their notebooks and a glue stick to class.

Most students have received their textbook.  Since we have a class set that we use each day, students were told to take their books home and leave them there for the remainder of the year. 

Homework:  Enjoy family time :-) 

Our day began with a review of last night's homework.  The mystery object was a hot air balloon.  Many of the students have perfected the skill of coordinate graphing.  Way to Go!

We talked about the various landforms  we'll study throughout our year and students had to complete a Topographical Map.  The "TOPO Quest" as we call it, challenged students to find various landforms and label them on the drawing.  We checked answers at the end of each class and students will be graded on their final product tomorrow. 

Homework:  Add color to TOPO Quest.  Ensure that all labeled landforms are visible and that there are no spelling errors. 

Today we checked answers to the textbook scavenger hunt we began yesterday.  Now students should have a grasp of where the various glossaries, handbooks and strategies pages we'll use this year are located.  We also had a quick review using a grid of latitude/longitude .

Homework:  Finish the latitude/longitude worksheet drawing and it will help you complete the following sentence:  People first saw the earth from above in a _________________.

Welcome Back!  I enjoyed seeing everyone's smiling face yesterday.  We began our day by discussing the 2008 Olympics.  Many students learned some interesting facts about several of the countries that are participating in this year's Olympics.  Students also played a little basketball to help celebrate their correct answers.  I missed the deciding basket...so... there was no homework last night:)

Today we took the opportunity to review some of the class expectations and procedures.  There was also a short Maps Skills Pre-test, then a review of certain agenda pages. 

Homework:  Personalize the cover of your 3-subject Mead notebook and bring it to class this Friday.