Week of Mar. 3-7

3/3/14
Learning Target:  to understand importance of GDP.
Standard: 

• Gather relevant information to understand a subject.
• Florida Standard:  Draw evidence form informational text to argue point of view.

Activities:

• finish Macroeconomics BEEP video
• complete vocab. worksheet
• take quiz
• explain homework

Homework in Rubenstein: 

• View Figures 9-1 and 9-11 on pages 275 and 282 respectively. 
• Be ready to explain the HDI in MDCs and LDCs. 
• Read pp. 282-288. 
• On a T-Chart list MDC and LDC regions from highest to lowest noting their respective HDI numerical value.

3/4/14

Check homework.

Jigsaw Reading:

Rubenstein:  p. 284 & 289.

Homework:  Read pp. 288-293.  Be ready to explain the GDI and GEM.  In a paragraph, choose a country that would be the most friendly towards females.  Support your choice with evidence.

3/5/14
Present your homework findings to rest of class.
Homework:  Choose a map projection from Rubenstein Ch. 9 that you think is the most importance for human awareness.  Support your choice.
Homework:  Review Barron's section on Globalization. 

 3/6/14
collect best place to be a woman paper
Jigsaw article "The Best Place to be a Woman"
Pair/Share
Prepare for debate

Practice for debate

3/7/14
Review globalization issues.
Debate practice.
Homework:  Prepare for debates on MONDAY (change of date).

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY:  I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE OR SOME GROUP TO RESEARCH THE CURRENT SITUATIONS IN UKRAINE AND VENEZUELA AND RELATE THEM TO GEOGRAPHIC TERMS, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF CONFLICT, BORDERS, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMICAL, AND ANY OTHER HUMAN GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTIONS YOU CAN FIND.  THIS PROJECT NEEDS TO BE PRESENTED AS A POWER POINT WITH VISUALS.  READING PARAGRAPHS OF INFORMATION IS DISCOURAGED.  YOU CAN ONLY USE MINIMAL NOTES. 

Climate Change and Development

http://www.economist.com/node/14447171/print

Week of Feb. 24-28

2/24- (25/14 No class)
Learning Target:  understand economic indicators
Florida Standards:  Determining the meaning of words and models.
Warm-up:  review of Rostow

1. Activity: 

• From Barron's, bullet one/two word summary of each  Rostow stage.
• Illustrate stages on wall.
• Replicate on handout.

2. Promethean Board review of GDP, GNP, etc.

3.  BEEP segment: Macroeconomics
Homework:
In Rubenstein, review sections that pertain to what we've talked about in class.
Review BEEP notes.  Be ready for eco. test coming next week. 

2/26/14
Learning Target:  understand various economic sectors
Florida Standards: 

• Use technology to find and link information.
• Draw evidence from multiple texts to support ideas.

Sectors of the economy
Promethean Board:  Demonstrate sectors of economy and provide examples
Activity:  sort various jobs within each sector.
Homework:  Review "Global Eco. Patterns"
Research this on reliable Internet site:  Why will periphery countries suffer more during rapid climate change?  Find two different points of view on this topic and evaluate them in terms of evidence. Be ready to present on Friday.



2/27/14
Learning Target:  to understand how to support an evidence based argument
Florida Standard:  to demonstrate ability to construct academic argument
Finish Macroeconomics BEEP video.
Complete notes
Complete vocab exercise
Take quiz
Homework:  Review "Location Principles".  Work on climate change and economy papers.



2/28/14
Learning Target:  to analyze an argument
Florida Standards:  Compare and contrast treatment of the same topic.
Present different points of view. Volunteer presentations of climate change and periphery countries.

Activity 1:  Students will present investigation of climate change effect on periphery countries.
Activity 2:  Finish Macroeconomics, vocab., notes, and quiz.

Week of Feb. 18-21

Learning Goal:  To understand spatial geographic issues.

2/18/14  (No 3rd Period)
Make sure you have thoroughly read Economic Geo.; have studied the vocab., and have completed the practice tests.

2/19/14
Oral quiz on econ. vocab
Crossword on econ. vocab
Homework:  Review notes on IR film; review bulk gaining industries, bulk reducing industries & break-bulk point, and 5 types of economic activities.

2/20/14
Eco. Reading Accountability Test
Warm-up:  Notes quiz on Industrial Revolution
Homework:  Review Rostow's stages of development

2/21/14


Activity: 

1. With LP, note similarities and differences
2. In your own words explain what each stage means.  Carefully read each explanation and explain what it means.

 
5 minute write on Rostow


 
Homework:  Review Measures of Productivity (GDP, etc.).  Review GNP, GDP, NNP, PPP, and HDI.  Make a 5-column chart to help you understand these terms.  (a. spell acronym out; b. define; c. indicate importance.)

 

2/24/14
economic sectors exercises

Economic Development Essay Questions

These are questions for the Economic Geography Unit:
1.  Identify and explain 4 Institutions of Economic Development.  What are the costs and benefits of dealing with these institutions for the periphery countries?  Extra credit if you can relate these institutions to your cultural hearth.

2.  Discuss the history of US industrialization and the causes and effects of the shifting economic geography of American manufacturing since the 1970s.

3.  Identify and discuss Rostow's stages of development in terms of its assumptions, predictions, strengths, and weaknesses.

4.  Support and/or oppose globalization.

5.  Economic activities are often categorized as being either primary, secondary, tertiary, or quaternary.

a.  What is deindustrialization?  How does it fit into this categorization of economic activities from a geographic and development perspective?
b.  What are the effects of deindustrialization?
c.  How does deindustrialization fit into the global geography of production that has emerged in the last 30 years?  What are its backwash effects?


6.  What are the characteristics of a less developed country? Use examples of economic indicators for classification.


7.  What is the relationship between the developing and the developed world.  Use two specific examples.


8.  List and define different economic sectors of a country's economy and explain the relationship between them.


9.  What are maquiladoras?  Describe their spatial characteristics?
How do they affect the US/Mexican economy?


10.  How can disparities between MDCs and LDCs be reduced according to the UN?  (Hint: UN 8 Millennium Development Goals)

Week of Feb. 10

Learning Goals: 
to understand the results of the Industrial Revolution
to understand development models and measures of productivity

2/10/14
Collect vocabulary paragraphs
Multiple Choice Test
Homework: Study questions

2/11/14
Political Geography essay test
Homework:  In Barron's read "Industrialization" section.  Make sure you know all the vocab. words from this section.



2/12/14
vocab. oral quiz
Discussion:  What was the Industrial Revolution?  How did it change the world?
View BEEP presentation "Living in the Industrial Revolution"
Homework:  research Maquiladoras and write a paragraph on what you found.



2/13/14
Discussion of maquiladoras:  Who, what, where, why, how?
Show parts of City of Factories
Homework:  Connect Valentine's Day to globalization.  Where did it originate?  How has it diffused?  Where is it celebrated?  Why?  What does it have to do with the Industrial Revolution? 



2/14/14
Show CNN's Japan's Valentine's Day celebration.
Homework:  Read and study entire Barron's Economic Geography section with special emphasis on vocabulary.  Also complete all the practice tests.


OUR NEXT DEBATE WILL BE ON THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF GLOBALIZATION.
BE READY TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR DEBATE SKILLS!

Political Geography Essay Questions

Political Geo. Essay Questions
1. Discuss the concepts of state, nation-state, multinational state, and stateless nation.

a. Define terms.

b. Give examples and identify place (location and region).

c. Discuss problems of each.

2. Discuss the history and function of the United Nations. Identify one current UN issue? How effective has the UN been in solving world problems?

3. Choose three international organizations. Discuss their

purpose and list important members. What are the advantages
and disadvantages of membership?

4. Define irredentism and devolution and illustrate with examples.

5. List advantages and disadvantages of different types of boundaries and provide real-world examples.

6. Discuss the concepts of imperialism and colonialism and illustrate some of their consequences occurring today.

7. List advantages and disadvantages of different shapes of states and provide examples.