Vozick Human Geography Blog

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine?language=en#t-520171 How many people live below the poverty line?  ________ people live below the poverty line. What is the Air Line?  The Air Line is ___ ______________. How many people live in the Air Line and how much do they make?  ______ people are in the Air Line and they make ______. What is the magic of the washing machine?  The magic of the washing machine is ____________. Yup, here is some more  Population PowerPoint . Let's  discover what your Ecological Footprint  is.  How many planets are needed to support your lifestyle?  Have you ever thought about your own impact on Planet Earth?  What surprised you about your responses and answers?  Do you think the country you are studying impacts the environment as much as the USA?  Why or why not?   What is one way that population impacts the geography of Basalt? What is one fact about population you did not know about bef

7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? http://www.npr.org/2011/10/31/141816460/visualizing-how-a-population-grows-to-7-billion What is a Drip into the Glass? What is a Drip out of the Glass? Where are most people found today?  Was it the same 1000 years ago? When did we reach 1 Billion people on Planet Earth? What happened to slow the leaks out of the glass? How long did it take to go from 1 Billion people to 7 Billion? What are the issues we face to see if we can survive having so many people? PowerPoint presentation  on vocabulary and concepts for the Population Unit.  Take notes as we investigate the materials.  You can also find the PowerPoint on  Schoology . What is one concept about population you fully understand?  I fully understand ___________. What is one concept you are struggling to understand?   

Internet Exploration Day  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/age-of-man/map-interactive Go to the  map on the link  above.  These maps are from the same article on the "Face of Humanity" we looked at yesterday.  Use the  Google Doc  and Answer the following questions about the maps.  You need to share the Doc with me. You can work with a partner or two. Page (Map) 1: What are the differences in the colors of the map?   Where are the most colors seen around the world?  Why is that? Where are there areas with fewer colors?  Why do you think that is? Page 2 and 3 (Map):  Economics What are the differences between the colors? How much money does a person in the upper middle class make (on average)? What is one trend you see on the Economic maps? Where are high-income countries mostly located?  Where are low-income countries mostly located?  Are there any countries that economically seem out of place where they’re located? Group the countries into a region

What is the Makeup of this 7.3+ Billion? http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/age-of-man/face-zoom-interactive This represents the face of humanity.   What country does the person's face look like?  Why?   It looks like ___________ because _________. What do you think are the top 3 nationalities by population?  ______________, _____________, and ________________.  Was your guess correct?   Population:  What do all these people mean for the places and locations we live?  On your computers, v iew the changes  across Planet Earth.  Were you aware of these changes happening?  What changes surprised you the most?  What impact do you think these changes have on humans?  What does this tell you about population over time? What does population mean to you?   Population means _______. What is one thing you want to learn more about population?   One thing I want to learn is __________.

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/a0684523-6e0d-4b4f-90aa-d09aec6b6106 Turn to a partner at your table and discuss the following question:  What does it mean to develop as a country?  What factors are involved?  How does what Jared Diamond says about environmental determinism and possibilism have to do with this? What questions do you have about the test?

BRAZIL, BRAZIL, BRAZIL https://video.choices.edu/curriculum/brazil What is one new thing you learned about Brazil in the video?  I learned _______________.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7i0yA_upx8 What the 3 primary features or regions mentioned?   The primary regions are _____________. What is one fact about each region?   Why is Brazil more inward looking according to the video?   Brazil is more inward looking because ________________. How is Brazil trying to connect these varied places?   Pre-Reading:  What are the key vocabulary words?  What is the time frame we are looking at?  What is the place like?  What are the items that show wealth?  Which show poverty? You will work in groups to read through the various documents and then answer the questions I will give your group.  Be ready to present to the other groups tomorrow. EXIT QUESTIONS: 1. What does GDP mean? GDP means ________________________. 2. What category did your group study (Political, Economic, Social, Environmental)?  Why do you think that? My group studied _____________ because ________________.

Brazil Fun Facts Fill out the Chart in your notebooks as we watch the video! 5 Themes of Geography Chart Location Absolute Relative Place Physical/Natural Human Human Environmental Interaction Environmental Human Impacts Movement People Ideas Products/Goods Regions Economics Political Cultural Favorite fact about Brazil in the video:   IS BRAZIL RICH?  What does it mean to be wealthy?  Work with your partner to define which items you think indicate if a country is wealthy? How do you define being wealthy?  Why?   I define being wealthy as ______________ because _______________. What are your first impressions of Brazil?   My first impressions are _______________________________.  

Country Investigation:  Work with your team to  research the Quality of Life and Development Criteria  for the country I assign you.  Compile the data you found  in the chart.   You will then compare them with each of the other countries.  Then you will go back to your original group and together you will write a full five sentence paragraph answering the question: Our Country is Developed/Developing/Non-Developed and has a High or Low Quality of Life? What new idea did you learn today? One new idea I learned today was ______________________. How would you define a developed country?   I would define a developed country as _______________________. In your opinion, what is the most important criteria in determining quality of life?   I think __________ is the most important criteria because _____________.

What is this cartoon showing us? Are the white people being helpful? What might this have to do with developing countries? Country Investigation:  Work with your team to research the Quality of Life and Development Criteria for the country I assign you.  Compile the data you found in the chart.  You will then compare them with each of the other countries.  Then you will go back to your original group and together you will write a full five sentence paragraph answering the question: Our Country is Developed/Developing/Non-Developed and has a High or Low Quality of Life? What new idea did you learn today? One new idea I learned today was ______________________. How would you define a developed country?   I would define a developed country as _______________________. In your opinion, what is the most important criteria in determining quality of life?   I think __________ is the most important criteria because _____________.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_Q_cw4tdo What do we mean by "developing"?   We mean  What 3 categories do we research when we look at development?  What factors are involved in each category? What does quality of life mean to you?   Quality of life means ___. How do we compare development from across these 3 categories?    ATLAS WORK:  Fill out the chart using the copies of the Atlas.   Which of the 5 themes did we cover looking at the atlas? The themes we covered today with our atlas worksheet were _____________, ________________, and ________________. What new idea did you learn today? One new idea I learned today was ______________________________. How would you define a developed country?   I would define a developed country as _______________________.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYmY7b8sPE What are the variables in a Choropleth map?   The variables are _____________. How might the colors change?   The colors may change by ___. What are the negatives of the Choropleth maps?   The negatives of a Choropleth map are ____________________. Is it better to include more or less values? Let's have some fun.  Develop your own Choropleth map for the high school graduation rate in Colorado.  Develop your own scale and key and color in the counties.   What surprised you about the high school rates in Colorado?   I was surprised that  ____________. How would the map change if you focused down to the town/city level?   Is there a difference between urban and rural areas? What was your impression of developing a Choropleth map?  

https://www.good.is/slideshows/interesting-borders#0 What was one border that showed cooperation?  How so?   One border showing cooperation was ______________ because _____________. What was one border showing conflict?  Why?  One border with conflict was ______________ because ______________. What was a surprising border to look at?  Why?  A surprising border was __________________ because ______________. Boundary PowerPoint, more, more, more At your tables, write a paragraph with your peers describing why boundaries create conflict or cooperation.  Give two examples of why you think that.  The paragraph can be the same but everybody should write it in your journals.  You will need to be able to share the paragraph with the table next to you.

Boundaries, Politics, and Power What is the dispute about?   The dispute is about ______________. Why is that a problem?   It is a problem because ______________. Do you think this is a valid problem? Why or why not? It is _________________ problem because _______________. POLITICS AND BOUNDARIES POWERPOINT Take notes in your journals.  Write down the vocabulary terms with a definition in your own words. Which type of boundary would most likely cause the greatest political problem(s)?  Why?  ( ¿Qué tipo de límite lo más probable es que el mayor problema político (s)? ¿Por qué? ) The boundary that would cause the greatest political problem is _________________ because ___________. How do you think you did on the quiz? Did you study enough?  What could you have studied differently?

October 3, 2017 After you finish the quiz, please go to the spreadsheet, find the appropriate tab for your class on the bottom of the page, find your name and select 3 countries you would like to become the Expert on throughout the year.  Rule 1, you cannot choose the USA.  Rule 2, no two students will be experts on the same country.  Rule 3, I want people to become experts on regions from around the world, so if we have too many people choosing countries in Central America or Europe I will spread you out.  Rule 4, have fun with this choice; choose a country you have never heard of or that you really want to visit or that you like the food from there.  Be creative.  Rule 5, if you erase somebody else's choices I will select your country for you.  When you finish this you can work on finishing any missing homework you have for me or using the time to finish work for another class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXB1Z_CxBK0 What is one map that surprised you?  Why?  One map that surprised me was _______________ because ______________________. What is one Flow Line map that was in the video?  One Flow Line map was ___________________. Which map was either a Robinson's or Molleweide?  A map that was either a Robinson's or Mollweide was ____________________. Review Day!  What does a Vozick Quiz look like?  Do you want to earn Honor's? https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/951ce1d2-b3cc-4760-848e-fb58a454d866 Are you ready for the quiz? What is one area you need to further study? What is one area you completely understand?