Tuesday September 4, 2018 & Wednesday September 5, 2018

Today's Learning Target: Student's will know what the five themes of geography are and why these themes are important.

-Circle: If you could only have one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

-Discussion in Circle: What is a learning target? What is the learning target for circles? What is the learning target for today's class period?

-Individual Activity: Students will be trying to list the names of the seven continents.

-Individual Activity: Students will be labeling the five oceans on a world map.

-Individual Activity: Students will be shading in and labeling the five major regions of the United States.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to generate lists of the ways that humans impact the environment and vice versa.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to describe the Oxford Hills region, specifically looking at the physical characteristics as well as the people who live here.

Individual Activity: Design your own country! Using drawings and words, design your own country. Included in this description you will need; Natural Features (rivers, mountains, etc), Human Made Features (Highways, Cities, etc), Region of the World This Country Will be in, List of Products Your Country Will Specialize in Producing, Name for Your Country.