Geography, Day 4 - Class Recap

My friend Ryan and I, on a mountain looking over Bogota, Colombia in 2009. We had our South America map quiz today in class, which included Colombia!

Hi wonderful students,

Great to see you all again today! It was a quiz and work day in class. Here's what happened today:

Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 7: I can demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of locations and regions.
Knowledge LT 10: I can demonstrate an understanding of the connection between physical and human systems.

Soundtrack: "Es Por Ti" by Juanes. Selected for today because Juanes is a singer from Colombia, which is in South America, which is what our map quiz today was about! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 9/20/17:
News Brief – Ryan C.
South America Map Quiz
5 Themes/Map Work
Oceania

Homework: Read the blog. Finish Oceania map (colored and labeled) for the quiz next class. Next news brief: Neel.

News Brief: Ryan C. had the news brief today and selected this story to talk about: CNN.com - Hurricane Maria pounds Puerto Rico after killing 7 people in Dominica. We found the island of Dominica in our world map packed (in the Caribbean!) and talked for a bit about this developing story. Thanks, Ryan C! Neel was assigned to do the next news brief.

We also talked about what students were up to outside of the classroom and we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):

BBCNews.com - One-minute World News

South America Map Quiz: As promised, the first map quiz. This was for South America and it is probably the easiest map quiz of the six we will do. I let students use their South America maps if they had completed them before class. Hopefully, you understand the importance of having a completed map to use on the test, and of reading the blog! We corrected the quiz in class and I passed it out for students to see what they got, before collecting them to be returned for good next class.

Five Themes/Map Work: This was the atlas work packet that we have been working on in class the last few days. This will be due at the end of the Geography unit (in about 3 classes, when we are done with each of the continents) and will count towards the assessment of a learning target. If you missed class, the packet is here (you need to work in class with the atlas in order to complete this):

Google Drive - Five Themes of Geography Atlas Packet

Please keep at this in class and work hard to get it done!

Oceania: The last part of class was dedicated to labeling and coloring the Australia/Oceania section of the map packet, in order to be able to use it on the upcoming quiz next class. This is much tougher than the South America quiz, so be ready! For checking the blog, here's a question from the quiz: This is the northernmost country in Oceania, with U.S. territories to the west and east. If you are missing your map packet and know you need to have it done, please print out another and have it ready to go for next class:

Google Drive - World Maps Packet

Again, mostly a work day today. Thanks for your focus today. See you next class!