Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Week of Apr. 21-25


Human Geography
Learning Goal:  to understand the processes of agriculture; to introduce student to urbanization processes.
4/21/14
Address the following in a paragraph: 
  • Who is Lynn Henning? 
  • What did she do? 
  • When did she do it? 
  • Where did she do it?
  • Why did she do it?
  • Do you agree with her actions?
Urban Geography vocab. and reading quiz.
Finish Promethean Board Review
Homework: Start reviewing agricultural vocabulary.  Pay particular attention to practice quizzes at end of chapter in Barron's.

4/22/14
Promethean Board vocab review
Draw a von Thunen model and label the following: 
  • highest rent
  • lowest rent
  • intensive land use
  • extensive land use
  • inexpensive transportation costs
  • expensive transportation costs
  • dairying
  • grazing
  • fruit and vegetable gardening
  • cattle ranching
  • orchards
Homework: Review all aspects of Agriculture in Barron's.  Test tomorrow. 

4/23/14
Agriculture crossword test
Agriculture MC test
Agriculture essay test
Homework:  reread "Historical Geography of Urban Environments"


4/24/14
warm up:  How did cities first appear? In chronological order, list how cities came to be.
Compare your list with LP
Make timeline of events which includes the following:


Neolithic Revolution
deindustrialization
colonial period
feudal cities
renaissance
US cities explode due to migration
Industrial Revolution
CA Gold Rush




Homework:  Make a chart with the following heading:  Types of Cities. Subheadings:  Colonial, Gateway, Medieval, Islamic, Latin American.  Under each subheading list characteristics and then bullet 5 examples.


4/25/14
Check homework
Think about the town in which you live
Group students depending on town
Sketch a depiction of your town's urban morphology.  Which model does it mostly conform to?
Homework:  Reread remaining Urban Geography chapter.  List 5 problems of urban sprawl.
Make a chart with the following subheadings:  Primate cities; megacities; top-tier world cities; second-tier world cities.  Research the top 5 cities today and compare their populations to your Barron's book.

Starting Monday, be prepared for a vocabulary quiz beginning with Ch. 1 in Barron's.





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