Assignment-Designing a realistic country: Part One due: October 15th Using the materials from the last three weeks, you must design a realistic third world country using the problem, solution and geography cards that you drew using cartographic principals and the five themes of Geography. For example: If your country has poor water sanitation, you would include water borne illnesses as issues that your country has to deal with (Cholera, Hepatitis, etc…). If you have a dry country you would have problems with drought but not mosquitoes. A dry country would have a map that did not showed savannas or deserts but not rain forests or lakes. You will turn in: 1) A MAP of your country with the 5 themes of Geography and the 3 essential elements of maps on it.- clearly labeled. 2) A one page reflection about your country from each group member- this will detail how YOU WORKED as a group, the contributions you made and details about your country. 3) A log sheet detailing how each member working in class on the project, listing activities completed for each day. On Friday October 12th part two will commence. Each member of your group will make a Blog about our country and interact with other countries on this Blog. Details on the part two Blog will be given on Friday October 12th. Once we are finished, a short presentation will be given by each country.
Designing a LEDC- Instructions
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Create your own LEDC, The Rubric
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The following rubric details how you will be graded for part of the LEDC create your country project. This is a bad copy of the sheet you were handed in class.
| Points | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Connection to Themes of Geo. and maps | Uses all 5 themes of geography*. Map has the three required elements of a map -scale, a compass, and a key | Uses 3-4 themes of geography. Map has 2 of the required elements. | Uses 1-2 themes of geography. . Map has1 of the required elements. | Uses: 0 themes of geography. Map lacks: a key, scale and a compass. |
| Places and features | Names of places and features in country are descriptive and creative They clearly correspond with your problem and solution cards. | Names of places and features in country are descriptive and creative They correspond with your problem and solution cards. | Names of places and features in country are somewhat descriptive and creative They somewhat correspond with your problem and solution cards. | Names of places and features in country are not descriptive and creative. Your country does not correspond with the cards. |
| Time Use | Classroom time was used to work on the project. Conversations were not disruptive and focused on the work. | Classroom time was used to work on the project the majority of the time. Conversations were not disruptive and focused on the work | Classroom time was used to work on the project the majority of the time, but conversations often were disruptive or did not focus on the work. | Student did not use classroom time to work on the project and/or was highly disruptive. |
| Roles | Each member of your group participated and worked on your country. A log sheet for your activities was filled out and handed in. | Each member of your group participated and worked on your country. A log sheet for your activities was mostly filled out and handed in. | Each member of your group participated and worked on your country. No log sheet was handed in. | Several members of your group had no clear role. One or two people did all of the work. |
| Effort, Creativity and Artistic outcome | Outstanding effort, extremely creative. map and reflection are neat and shows a high degree of attention to detail. | Good effort, good creativity. Map and reflection are well presented, neat and creative. | Satisfactory effort, satisfactory creativity. Map is neat. One page reflection describes country. | Minimal effort and creativity is shown. Map is sloppy. Reflection sheet is poorly done with little thought put in to it. |
The 5 Themes of Geography
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Mr Jamgochian- Humanities 7
The 5 Themes of GeographyMOVEMENTThe movement of people, the import and export of goods, and mass communication have all played major roles in shaping our world. People everywhere interact. They travel from place to place and they communicate. We live in a global village and global economy.
People interact with each other through movement. Humans occupy places unevenly on Earth because of the environment but also because we are social beings. We interact with each other through travel, trade, information flows (E-Mail) and political events.
Not only do humans move but also ideas move; fashions move; fads move. What is an example of an idea that moves? Fashion? Fad? How do we depend on people in other places? How would our lives change if our movement options changed? What would happen if we traveled by camel or horse? How do we move from place to place? How do we actually get food? REGIONA region is the basic unit of study in geography. A region is an area that displays a coherent unity in terms of the government, language, or possibly the landform or situation. Regions are human constructs that can be mapped and analyzed.
There are three basic types of regions.
Formal regions are those defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (i. e.,
United States,
Birmingham, Brazil). These regional boundaries are not open to dispute, therefore physical regions fall under this category (i. e., The Rockies, the
Great Lakes
States).
Functional regions are those defined by a function (i. e., Radio reception, United Airlines Service area or a newspaper service area). If the function ceases to exists, the region no longer exists.
Vernacular regions are those loosely defined by people’s perception (i. e., The South, The Middle East).
What region do we live in? What type of region is it? What are its characteristics? Hessen? Taunus?
Germany? What areas are in
Latin America? The South of
Germany? The Axis of Evil? What characteristics and perceptions go along with these regions? HUMAN/ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONHow do humans and the environment affect each other? We change the environment and then sometime Mother Nature changes it back. For example, floods in
Australia, Hurricanes in
Costa Rica, and earthquakes and mudslides in
California. There are three key concepts to human/environmental interaction:
Humans adapt on the environment.
Humans modify the environment.
Humans depend to the environment.People depend on the
Rhine
River for our water and transportation. People modify our environment by heating and cooling buildings for comfort. People adapt to the environment by wearing clothing that is suitable for summer and winter; rain and shine.
All places on Earth have advantages and disadvantages for human settlement. One person’s advantage may be another person’s disadvantage. Some like the excitement of large cities whereas others prefer remoteness. Environment is not just trees, spotted owls, and rain forests. Environment is a feeling. What is the environment of a big city?
Madrid?
Seoul?
Berlin?
Given the choice, where would you live? Why? What is the environment? How do people interact with the environment? How do the physical features affect us?
How have we adapted to or changed our landscape? For example, in the
Sudan even though everything is seemingly barren, the land sustains farmers and nomadic herders. People and animals have adapted to a hot, dry climate.
LOCATION“Where are we?” is the question that the theme Location answers. Location may be absolute or it may be relative. These locations, whether relative or absolute, may be of people or places.
An absolute location is a latitude and longitude (a global location) or a street address (local location).
Florence, AL is 34o46′ North latitude and 87.40′ West longitude
Paris, France is 48o51′ North latitude and 2.20′ East longitude
Marshall Islands are 10o00′ North latitude and 165o00′ East longitude
Relative locations are described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another and may associate a particular place with another. PLACEWhat kind of place is it? What do you think of when you imagine
China?
Japan?
Russia?
Saudi Arabia?
Places have both human and physical characteristics, as well as images.
Physical characteristics include mountains, rivers, soil, beaches, wildlife, soil. Places have human characteristics also. These characteristics are derived from the ideas and actions of people that result in changes to the environment, such as buildings, roads, clothing, and food habits.
The image people have of a place is based on their experiences, both intellectual and emotional. People’s descriptions of a place reveal their values, attitudes, and perceptions.
How is your hometown connected to other places? What are the human and physical characteristics of
Florence? How do these shape our lives?
