5 Themes of Geography and Climate Zones

Student Learning Objective- Students will demonstrate understanding of one of the 5 themes of geography in their analytical writing after the lecture and discussion.

First we watched a video.  It is corny but will be helpful.  It is the first thing that pops up when you search "5 themes of geography" on youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqC79WrpKg

Then we talked about the 5 themes of geography.  This confirms what the class said in a previous discussion that we all understood the concept of geography before but we did not know all about it.

Location- "where it is"
Absolute location-


Relative location-


Practice both

Place- "what is it like when we get there"
Physical Characteristics-
Human characteristics-
The class brainstormed physical and human characteristics for Gloucester



Movement- "people and ideas get around"
-human migration
-Trade and transportation
We will discuss Cultural Diffusion and Ethnocentrism later in the unit, which play into this.


Human-Environment Interaction- "What do the people do to the environment?" "What does the environment do for the people?"
The class discussed the positive and negative examples of this.


Regions- "What do locations have in common"
The class discussed this and will go over the specific regions


Climate Zones

Tropical
Subtropical
Temperate
Sub-Arctic
Arctic

Inland
Coastal
Mediterranean
Arid

Reflection (to be turned in on google classsroom)- Show understanding of one of the 5 themes of geography in a short personally written reflection.  As always, no plagiarism!  For example, give directions somewhere using relative location and human and physical characteristics.  Or, explain some SPECIFIC positive and negative examples of human-environment interaction.  Stay on the zoom or email for help.  Post on the google classroom when complete.