9/30 20 Questions --> Mystery Skype

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will 

•  identify jobs individuals should take during a Mystery Skype.

Why?

• To prepare for a Mystery Skype.
• To develop critical thinking.
• To develop team work.

1.  Discuss with someone near you what you will be doing in class today and why (see above).   1 minute

2. Brainstorm on scrap paper jobs people would need for a team to play 20 questions against another team as they are playing against you.     5 minutes

3.  Class discussion ---> assignments?      15 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child, 
"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• What is Mystery Skype? 

9/29 Absolute and Relative Location

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will 

•  identify parts of the map.
• use absolute locations.
• use relative locations.
• use latitude and longitude.

Why?

• To better understand the map as a tool for learning.
• To better understand and practice how to determine and describe where places are.

1.  Discuss with someone near you what you will be doing in class today and why (see above).   1 minute

2. Make sure you have a Geography Alive textbook.  Open to page 577, and examine the map.     5 minutes

3.  By yourself, answer the following in your scrap paper doc or on scrap paper on the back table:      25 minutes

• What is the absolute location of Freetown, Sierra Leone (it's on the west coast)? HAVE YOUR WORK CHECKED BY MR.d'E.
• What is the absolute location of Harare, Zimbabwe (it's in southern Africa)? HAVE YOUR WORK CHECKED BY MR.d'E.
• Where is Khartoum, Sudan in relationship to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia? HAVE YOUR WORK CHECKED BY MR.d'E.

4. Practice - see Mr. d'E     10 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child, 
"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• Why would you use absolute location and relative location? 

9/28 Map Practice

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will 

•  identify parts of the map.
• use absolute locations.
• use relative locations.
• use latitude and longitude.

Why?

• To better understand the map as a tool for learning.
• To better understand and practice how to determine and describe where places are.

1.  Take a copy of the map from the front table & have a box of colored pencils to use.   1 minutes

2.  Do the following to the map:      25 minutes

• Trace the equator green.
• Trace the Prime Meridian yellow.
• Draw and trace the Tropic of Cancer blue.
• Draw and trace the Tropic of Capricorn Orange.
• Draw an appropriate compass rose.
•  lightly shade the eastern hemisphere grey.
• Lightly shade the western hemisphere red
• Put darker diagonal grey lines to show the northern hemisphere.
• Put darker diagonal red lines to show the southern hemisphere.
• Put the letter A where 40* N 40*E is.
• Put the letter B where 30*S 90*E is. 
• Draw an appropriate scale so that 15* = 1035miles.
• What is the relative location of A to B? (Where is A in relationship to B?)

3.  Class check.     5 minutes

4. Practice      10 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child, 
"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• What are key features of a world map?
• Describe how you use absolute location?
• Describe how you use relative location?

9/27 Absolute and Relative Location

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will 

• identify absolute locations.
• identify relative locations.
• use latitude and longitude.

Why?

• To better understand the map as a tool for learning.
• To better understand and practice how to determine and describe where places are.

1.  Make a copy of the document at this link. Move it into your social studies folder in the Drive Classroom folder.   5 minutes

2.  Answer the four questions in your document.      10 minutes

3.  Class discussion.     5 minutes

4. Google Search practice: What Google search can you do to find a natural resources map from a Canadian website?      7 minutes

5. Go to the map of Syria linked here. Answer the following at the top of your social studies scrap paper doc (date, then work)     15 minutes

1. What is the map showing? 
2. Which city is the capital of Syria.
3. Identify one industry in Aleppo.
4. Identify one mineral deposit in Aleppo.

6.  Class discussion.     5 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child, 
"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• Describe how you use absolute location?
• Describe how you use relative location?

9/26 Absolute & Relative Location

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will 

• identify elements of a world map.
• describe locations on a world map.
• use latitude and longitude.

Why?

• To better understand the map as a tool for learning.
• To better understand and practice how to determine and describe where places are.

1.  Label the map on the floor. I think you can do it in 4 minutes!!!   8 minutes

3.  Absolute location practice Koosh. Write the coordinates      5 minutes

4.  Define & gesture.     5 minutes

5. Relative location: describe the location w/out coordinates.      5 minutes

6. Add another Koosh. Where is one in relation to the other?      15 minutes

7.  Define & gesture.     5 minutes

8.  Atlas practice.     10 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child, 
"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• What is absolute location?
• What is relative location?