GCU 672 Physical Geography for Teachers

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GCU 672Physical Geography for Teachers

• Review of the Syllabus and Assignments

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Outline for this Review

1. Instructor information
2. Contact information
3. Introduction to class
4. Organization of topics
5. How to approach each topic
6. Assignments
7. Student A Example Assignments

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1. Instructor Information
Ron Dorn, Professor School of Geographical
Sciences PO Box 870104 Arizona State University,
Tempe AZ 85287 FAX [phone] Phone
480-965-7533 E-mail (most reliable contact)
ronald.dorn_at_asu.edu My role is to organize and
present the content, score assignments, help
students develop ideas, and help connect class to
broader MAS-GE program

• http//alliance.la.asu.edu/dorn/dorn.html
• Rons homepage

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2. Contact Information

• How to Contact start by e-mailing
  (ronald.dorn_at_asu.edu). Let me know if you want me
  to phone you back. Never hesitate to ask
  questions, schedule a phone contact, or a visit
  in person. I am dedicated to trying to provide
  you with the best possible online educational
  experience.
• Associate Director Denise Dorn will visit you at
  your site if you are having trouble with this
  class. E-mail her to schedule a phone or
  in-person visit(denise.dorn_at_asu.edu)

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3. Introduction to the Class
Physical geography is the first holistic natural
science, asking how Earths surface came into
being. The complexity is traditionally divided
into six parts shown in this diagram.

• Note the 2nd presentation explains in detail the
  reasons for a physical geography class in this
  masters program.

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4. Organization of topics
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5. How to approach each topic

• http//www.asu.edu/courses/gcu600/gcu672a/672Calen
  dar.html

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Watch presentation first
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How to listen to the breeze presentations

• You can listen straight through
• You can pause at any time
• You can repeat a slide at any time
• You can interrupt the presentation and open up
  one of the classroom resource movies to watch the
  indicated animation

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Animations Discussed in Presentation
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Watch Animations

• Click on the animation
• .mov .mpg .avi .wmv .swf

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Online Text to Assist
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Extra Readings Teacher Suggestions
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Online Resources Discussed in the Presentation
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6. Assignments

• 90 of Grade Integrating GCU672 with your
  classroom
• Option 1 take 3 tests. Test 1 would cover units
  12. Test 2 would cover units 34. Test 3 would
  cover units56.
• Option 2 Complete 1 assessment for each of the 6
  class units. You can mix different types of
  assessments to fit your instructional setting

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Test 1 would be 2 units
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Unit Assessments

• One assessment for each unit with options to
  allow you to best integrate material into your
  educational context

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Unit Assessments - Options

• Bulletin board for your classroom or hallway
  display (can be done twice). Send digital photo
  of your display.
• Design your own assessment (can be done once),
  linking to standards that you teach and involve
  an outcome that would improve your teaching.
• Discussion thread leader. Blackboard has an
  interface that allows students to discuss
  material on a topic that greatly interests you
  (can be done twice). Work with instructor on how
  best to design discussion thread to integrate
  class material and active learning (discuss later
  idea in the context of beaches).

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Unit Assessments Options (continued)

• Journal Article Analysis (can be done twice).
  Find journal article in ASUs library on topic
  related to unit. Present summary of journal
  article (1/2 page), summary of the material
  covered in class (1/2 page), and compare the
  differences similarities.
• Write a Binko style lesson. style of lesson
  plan used in GCU 671. However, add a new section
  on Background Information that provides your
  research and sources. (can be done for all units)
• Online lesson adaptation (can be done twice).
  Take an internet lesson. Evaluate the validity of
  the content, and then modify the lesson to
  improve content and student activity.

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Unit Assessments Options (continued)

• Powerpoint Presentation (can be done for all
  units). Make powerpoint presentation (can modify
  the powerpoint available for this class). Submit
  your performance objectives, student assessment
  for the powerpoint (e.g. quiz, notetaking sheet,
  worksheet, other activity) along with the answer
  key.
• Student Readings. (can be done twice). Find
  grade appropriate readings/literature on the
  subject matter. Then, develop the complete
  assignment that you would give your own students
  including handouts, instructions, worksheets,
  keys and other items that would make this ready
  to use tomorrow.
• Study Guide and Test (can be done twice).
  Develop a test guide for your own classroom for
  when you would teach the material in this module.

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7. Student A Example Assignments

• Profile of Teacher Middle School Social Studies,
  mostly history

Choice of Assignment Binko Lesson on
Earthquakes and Chinese Emperors reviews the
tectonic setting of China, before examining how
prior earthquake disasters has influenced Chinese
history.
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Choice of Assignment Binko Lesson on Nikita
Khrushchev and the Aral Sea reviews the
hydrology (drainage basin) of the Aral Sea, why
and how it was altered by the Soviets in the
1950s, and the current environmental crisis.
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Choice of Assignment Start and Lead a Discussion
Thread on re-interpretation of my favorite
beach.
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• Baymouth bar carried by littoral drift?
• Changing river supply of beach sediment?
• Summertime beach (supplied by offshore bars)?

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• Find student reading about global warming on side
  of skeptics and side of those believing that
  humans are altering climate.
• Develop assignment such as a classroom debate,
  how individuals can make a difference, or other
  standard-based activity.

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• Develop powerpoint presentation student
  activities about the role of storms on major
  events in history, based on book by Randy
  Cervenys Freaks of the Storm

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• For the ½ semester course on world geography,
  develop a study guide and test for teaching
  deserts of the world based on unit 23,
  subtropics

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Integrative Assignments

• 10 of the Grade Integrating GCU 672 in your
  Classroom and School Setting . (Same assignment
  will be for GCU 673, 675, and 676 to be compiled
  in GCU 677)
• Final Exam. (5) Compile your thoughts in less
  than 500 words on how the subject matter has
  changed your perspective on geography, and how
  pieces of the material might be incorporated into
  what you teach
• AYP Strategic thinking (5). Analyze how the
  content of this class might be used to improve
  your schools AYP. First, overview the situation
  of your school, providing a brief history of the
  past. Second, provide a brief summary of your
  schools current strategy at improving AYP.
  These first two paragraphs will be repeated for
  GCU 673, 675 and 676. Third, specify steps that
  you think should be taken to integrate geography
  content and skills into your schools AYP
  strategy.