Lab assignment 1' Part A: Where have you been

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Lab assignment 1.Part A Where have you been?

• Using the maps provided, identify the places you
  have traveled.
• Write a brief description of the destinations and
  record a single story about one of your
  adventures in seeing the world.
• (this part of the assignment is so I can learn
  more about 'who you are' )

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as of 2004
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A new destination

• Geography is in large part understanding the
  sense of place
• When you walk down a street in St.Petersburg,
  Dhaka or Hackleburg, what is different about this
  place than other places?

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Understanding a place that you have never seen!
So how does a person find about a place they have
never seen? Before Al Gore invented the internet,
travel books, national geographic magazine etc.
provided the data now we have the digital
resources of cyberspace at our command.
http//boojum.com/photographs.html http//www.wwe
scapes.com/taketrip/mongstep.html http//www.un-mo
ngolia.mn/mongolia/ http//www.nationalgeographic.
com/genghis/index.html http//www.lib.utexas.edu/m
aps/middle_east_and_asia/ http//www.mongoliatouri
sm.gov.mn/indexm.html http//www.odci.gov/cia/pub
lications/factbook/ etc.etc
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So what do we need to know

• What biological communities are present in the
  destination (biomes)? http//www.whps.org/schools/
  SEDGWICK/research/biome.html
• What is the climate of a place? How is a
  climograph read? http//www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/m
  sese/earthsysflr/climograph.html
• What is the physiography of the place? Relief
  map makes a good search term.

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Writing up the exercise

• 1. What is the question? Why does the document
  you are working with exist? What are the limits
  of the question? WHY?
• What is Mongolia like? or What is the
  climate, the biological community and the
  physiography of Mongolia like?
• 2. Where did your data to answer the questions
  come from?
• 3. What methods did you use to answer this
  question?
• (data and methods are often combined in a single
  section)

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Writing the reportcontd.

• 4. Analysis and Conclusions
• This is the core of your write up. What are the
  answers to the questions? Present the data you
  found that answers the questions.
• Make sure and Reference the figures/photographs
  in the text!
• e.g. the relief map of Central Asia (figure 1)
  shows that Mongolia is primarily a high elevation
  plateau and make sure that figure 1 is indeed
  the relief map of central Asia!

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The final part of the write up

• The final part of the analysis and conclusion for
  these labs is your evaluation of the lab.
• What did you learn?
• What worked well? What did not work?
• How might the lab be modified to help a student
  learn (more information, more efficiently, more
  effectively?)