Week+Three

This week your assignment is to read chapter two Portraying Earth and review the supplemental material located here: Chapter Two Portraying Earth, and you will also need to review and label the North America map, located here: North America Map Study. You will have a quiz on chapter two and you will have a quiz on North America on Blackboard.

You have two posting assignments this week, one for Chapter Two and one for North America. For the Chapter Two post, since it is all about the tools of geography, I would like for you to write about one of the tools of geography that you find interesting, enjoyed learning about, or had any difficulty understanding. I would like for you to use at least one vocabulary word in your posting. For your North America posting, I would like you to have fun with this one, and write about a place in North America that you would like to visit, or that you have visited. Please include a picture in your North America post.

Chapter Two is all about the tools of geographers and how we use them to portray Earth. It is one of my favorite chapters to lecture on. I have included several videos in the Prezi to help with the different concepts and I also have more articles and videos on the class web page that I have not had a chance to embed into the Prezi yet. There are also links on the chapter two page to several apps that use GPS and GIS. Of course you are not required to use the apps or read any of the supplemental material, but if you are interested, there are a lot of neat things that connect to this chapter. There are also a lot of local jobs that involve the use of these types of tools, so I am enthusiastic about them in the classroom. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

I know that this is your fist map study and quiz, so I wanted to say a little bit about what is expected of you. On the North America map page, you will see first the North America map which is uploaded onto Slideshare. Directly below it, you will see the pdf of the map - you will need to print this out, or come and pick one up in the Physical Science office, unless you have purchased the Geography coloring book. The first page of the map packet is the cover page, the next page is the list of terms - this is what you need to learn - the page after that is the physical map of North America, that is the one that you will work with. There is also a political map, but this is just for reference - your map study is of the physical geography of North America. The political map is included because some of the descriptions may use states as a reference, and you have the political map with all of the states just in case you need it. So anyway, it is your assignment to learn where all of the map terms are and what there significance is. There is a Prezi of North America, it will walk you through the map study. It follows the terms in order, and there is a map, picture, and description of each map term.

I know that some of you may have some anxiety over this first map study and quiz, please relax, it will be OK. My last online class was able to find all of the terms and several of them had perfect scores on the quiz. Also there have been a number of times that onsite students have missed map studies and they are also able to find all of the terms and most are able to get A's too. North America is first because I am hoping since you live here, you may know where some of these place are. If there is a term you cannot locate, try doing a Google search because all of the places are well known. Of course you can ask me too if you need any help.

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