GEOGRAPHY

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TOPIC 17

• GEOGRAPHY

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WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?

• Examination of human location.
• The study of human behavior as it relates to the
  location decision making process.
• Geography is destiny.
• Place of birth is powerful determinant of
  lifetime experiences.

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FIVE THEMES

• Location
• Place
• Human/Environment Interaction
• Movement
• Regions

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LOCATION (st. 1)

• Where is it?
• Absolute location longitude and latitude
• Relative location in terms of other features of
  the environment
• Use of maps as the tools of geographers

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PLACE (st. 2)

• What is there?
• Physical and human characteristics of places.
• Physical systems shaping the Earth
• (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere
• st. 3) this expands beyond social science to
  natural science

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PLACE cont. (st. 2)

• Cultural systems (st. 4)
• population, language, and religious patterns and
  geopolitics
• Economic systems (st. 4)
• agricultural and economic systems
• Urban systems (st.4)
• including the role of innovation in urban
  development

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HUMAN/ENVIRONMENT (link st.5)

• Link - How is it connected?
• Impact of physical and cultural processes on
  Earths environment
• Environmental and conservation movements

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MOVEMENT (link st.5)

• Dynamic, not static
• Movement in time and space
• Migration of populations
• Diffusion of innovation
• Transportation and communication systems

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REGIONS (st.6)

• Where else is like there?
• Combine similar places together to form a region
  i.e., bread basket
• Regional issues and planning
• Interaction of all other four themes with Region
  theme
• Formal region
• Functional region

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CONTENT STANDARDS

• Colorado Model Content Standards for Geography
  grew out of a series of efforts during the 1980s
  and 1990s to sharpen the focus on just what
  Geography is and just what Geographers do.
• These include the Five Fundamental Themes of
  Geography by the National Council for Geographic
  Education and the Geography for Life of the
  Geography Education Standards Project.

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CONTENT STANDARDS

• Students know how to use and construct maps,
  globes, and other geographic tools to locate and
  derive information bout people, places, and
  environments.
• Students know the physical and human
  characteristics of places, and use this
  knowledge to define and study regions and their
  patterns of change.

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CONTENT STANDARDS

• 3. Students understand how physical processes
  shape Earths surface patterns and systems.
• 4. Students understand how economic, political,
  cultural, and social processes interact to shape
  patterns of human populations, interdependence,
  cooperation, and conflict.

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CONTENT STANDARDS

• 5. Students understand the effects of
  interactions between human and physical systems
  and the changes in meaning, use, distribution,
  and importance of resources.
• 6. Students apply knowledge of people, places,
  and environments to understand the past and
  present and to plan for the future.

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SUMMARY