Unit 2: Understanding Timelines and Timeline Vocabulary

• I can use my World textbook to complete notes about Timeline Vocabulary words.

• I can follow timeline rules to solve problems about elapsed time. 

• I can read and understand the events represented on a timeline.

Directions:
1. With your partner, read pages 58 - 59 in your 'World' textbook.
2. Use the information from those pages to hep you complete the Guided Notes

*** As a whole group we will go over your responses, and fill in the rules for solving elapsed time problems.

*** In your Table Groups solve timeline problems & record the 'Rule' that you followed in order to solve. 

Homework:
Finish the 'Skills' page questions 1 - 5.

 Triad Group Work - Page 1

 Classwork - Page 2

Homework - Page 3

Unit 1 Assessment Day: Famous Failures - If you’ve never failed, you’ve never tried anything new!

Today you will be taking the Unit 1 Assessment on Geography and Cartography

• Be sure to read all the directions, and each individual question carefully.
• Keep your eyes on your own paper
• Write neatly & cover your responses
• When you are done, check over the test
• Raise your hand so that I can collect it. I will give you a geography word search that you may work on quietly while the other students are finishing their test.

Unit 1: Geography Unit Review Day

Review Day

• The test will be Friday October 16
• Complete the review packet and review the 5 themes of Geography to prepare for the Unit test on Friday.

Unit 1: Plan your Dream Vacations Unit Project

• I can use latitude and longitude coordinates to plan out My Dream Vacation.

Plan your Dream Vacation

Step 1: You will be working in groups of 3. Work with your group members to first make corrections to Friday's Quiz. ***Be sure you hand them in to improve your quiz grade.

Step 2: Fill out the answer Key for your dream vacation.
Select a location to begin your Dream Vacation (Write the city & Country)
Select Select 9 other locations to visit on your journey (Write the City and Country)

Step 3: Select a location where yo would like to finish your dream vacation. (Write the City and Country)

Step 4: Fill out the corresponding Coordinate sheet using the maps in your World Textbook as a reference. Yo must write down the latitude and longitude coordinates for each of the cities you will be visiting on your dream vacation.

Answer Key & Coordinate sheet look exactly alike. 

Plot your route on a world map. Use the cities names and be sure you number each stop on your vacation! 

Dream Vacation Rubrik

Homework: No Homework

Unit 1: Using Latitude & Longitude Coordinates Quiz

• I can record important information about the different types of maps and the features found on them.
• I can use Latitude and longitude coordinates to locate the capitals of countries on a political map of Europe.

Quiz Directions:
Use the map on page R6 in your World textbook to find which capital cities are located at these points. 


Todays Notes:

Directions: 
1. Read pages G4-G11 in your World textbook.
2. Read pages 12 & 13 in your World textbook.
3. Fill in each blank to complete the note taking worksheet. 

Unit 1: Practice using Latitude and Longitude to locate places on a map

Learning Targets

• I can collaborate effectively with a group of my peers.
• I can use latitude and longitude lines to name cities on a map of the United States.
• I can use my map skills and geography skills to answer comprehension questions about locating places in Alaska.

Activity #1
Write the name of the city that you find at the latitude and longitude coordinates.

Activity #2
Use the map of Alaska to answer the questions.

Homework:
Finish Latitude and Longitude worksheet & Locating Places in Alaska.

Unit 1: Latitude and Longitude Introduction

Brain Pop Video reviewing the Types of Maps

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/geography/mapskills/

Brain Pop Video on Latitude and Longitude:

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/geography/latitudeandlongitude/

Username: oncoma
Password: ocmsls

Bonus Question:
(Use your World textbook, pages R18 & R19)

Figure out the exact location of Tim and Moby.
Their exact coordinates are:
60 degrees 5’22”N  
159 degrees 13’10”W

Your map doesn’t show the Minutes and seconds. It only shows the degrees of latitude and longitude.