Thinking Geographically

1. Thinking Geographically Unit 1: Geography, It’s Nature and Perspectives

2. Key Concepts • Locations of people • Reasons for distribution • Where? Why? • Globalization v. Local Diversity

3. Physical Geography Where and Why?

4. Human Geography Where and Why?

5. Topical vs. Regional Approach • Instead of starting with a REGION and going over all of the issues in that PLACE… • We are going to start with the Issues and see how they apply to different places in different ways and ask WHY?

6. Hurricane Katrina

7. 5 Themes of Geography • Location • Place • Region • Movement • Human-Environmental Interaction

8. Three Concepts • Scale • Space • Connection

9. Maps • Spatial perspective • Store reference material • Communicate information • Explain dynamic processes at work • Reveal patterns and help us think about the reasons for distributions of humans and activities

11. Big Mac Attack • http://show.mappingworlds.com/world/

12. Overview of the Reading • History of cartography • Scale • Projection • Contemporary Tools • Place • Regions • Scale, Space, and Connections

13. Maps What is a map? What do they do?

14. Map • Visual representation of the physical world • Can include: • Cultural landscape • Cities • Houses • People- Demographics • States- Countries • Physical Features • Mountains, Deserts, Rivers, Oceans

15. Cartography • Science/Art of map making • How accurate does a map have to be? • Scale • Symbols • Maps tell stories • What is the map trying to tell you?

16. Historic Maps

17. Art in Maps

18. World maps

19. World maps

20. Political Maps

21. Large Scale Artistic Maps

22. Physical Maps

23. Travel and Information

24. Demographics

25. Blueprints

26. Mind Maps Mental image of your world.

27. Scale

28. Map Components • Compass • Neat Line • Title • Scale • Key