Tuesday October 1, 2019 & Wednesday October 2, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What would your ideal vacation look like?

Kahoot: We will be playing a Kahoot as a class to prepare for the upcoming test.

Continents & Oceans: Students will be working individually to locate the 7 continents, 5 oceans, and 5 major countries on a blank map.

Specialty Maps: Students will be working in groups to identify what different specialty maps are showing, and what they can prove using the information from the maps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income#/media/File:Countries_by_gross_median_household_income_in_Int$_(PPP).png

http://www.mapsnworld.com/temperature-and-pressure.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:Countries_and_Dependencies_by_Population_in_2014.svg

Study Groups: Students will be working together to study using the note cards they created.

Relative Location: Students will be working together in groups to describe states using relative location.

Exit Ticket: Which part of this test are you most unsure about/going to need to study the most for?

Friday September 27, 2019 & Monday September 30, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What was your favorite Disney movie as a kid?

Continents & Oceans Game: Students will be working in teams to find the seven continents and five oceans the fastest.

5 Themes Practice Test: We will be working through the five themes practice test together as a class.

Note Cards: Students will be making note cards to prepare for the upcoming test.

Major Countries Game: Students will be working in teams to find the major countries of the world the fastest.

Monday September 23, 2019 & Tuesday September 24, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: Who is your favorite musical artist?

5 Themes Practice Test: We will be working through the five themes practice test together as a class.

Kahoot: We will be playing a Kahoot as a class to study for the Five Themes of Geography test. 

Partner Up: Each student will grab a piece of paper with a random word on it. Their goal is to find the other person in the room with the same word. Once students are paired up, they will ask each other the question of the round. The last group to find each other has to share out each others answers.
- What is your least favorite food?
- What is your favorite genre of music?
- What is your favorite type of ice cream?
- What is your most used emoji?
- What is your favorite video game?

Exit Ticket: Which theme are you having the hardest time understanding?

Thursday September 19, 2019 & Friday September 20, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What is the worst injury you've ever had? 

Kahoot: https://create.kahoot.it/details/continents/14ec0c0b-f6a1-43f1-9da9-b9a2d43ca735

5 Themes Practice Test: We will be working through the five themes practice test together as a class. 

Exit Ticket: Which theme are you having the hardest time understanding?

Tuesday September 16, 2019 & Wednesday September 17, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What was your favorite activity to do on the playground?

Human/Environment Interaction: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Human/Environment Interaction. They will then be doing an activity where they will be asked to brainstorm a list of ways people in Maine adapt to their environment.

Terms Needing Defining: Latitude, Longitude, Equator, Prime Meridian, Hemisphere

Mapping: We will be talking about the differences between types of maps and what their uses are. Physical, Political, and Special Purpose maps will be included.

Special Purpose Maps: We will be looking at a couple of different special purpose maps to try and figure out what the map is trying to tell us.
https://maps-usa.com/united-states-population-map

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/archive/us/julavgt15.png

https://visual.ly/community/infographic/economy/median-household-income-us-county

Kahoot: https://create.kahoot.it/details/continents/14ec0c0b-f6a1-43f1-9da9-b9a2d43ca735

Friday September 13, 2019 & Monday September 16, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What is your favorite show to watch on TV?

Mapping Game: We will be playing a mapping competition game to learn where the major countries are in the world. 

Movement: We will be doing an introduction and note taking on Movement. We will then be doing a group activity looking at what Maine imports and exports.

Region: We will be doing an introduction and note taking on Region. We will then be doing a group activity looking at all the possible regions in Maine.

Human/Environment: We will be doing an introduction and note taking on Human/Environment Interaction. We will then be doing a group activity looking at how people in Maine interact with their environment.

Exit Ticket: What's one thing you had a hard time understanding in class today?

Wednesday September 11, 2019 & Thursday September 12, 2019

Today's Learning Target: Students will be learning about 9/11 and will understand the impact that it still has on our society today.

Circle: If you could only live in one state for the rest of your life, which one would you choose and why? What do you know or have you been told about 9/11?

9/11 Video Series: We will be watching this series of videos from the day.

9/11 Summary Video: We will be watching this summary of the day.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to research and discuss the ways that 9/11 still impacts us today. This is a great article to read!

Writing: Students will be writing a paragraph arguing the 3 most important ways they think America has changed as a result of 9/11.

Movement: We will be doing an introduction and note taking on Movement. We will then be doing a class activity looking at what Maine imports and exports.

Monday September 9, 2019 & Tuesday September 10, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Mapping Competition: We will be playing the team mapping competition with the first team to ten points being the winner.

Five Themes: We will be taking notes and doing activities for the five themes of geography.

- Using Longitude and Latitude Activity

- Describing something using relative location

- Describing something using place

- Claim, evidence, warrant paragraph on Maine

- Movement introduction and notes

- What does Maine import? What does Maine export?

Exit Ticket: Try to name to seven continents and five oceans.

Thursday September 5, 2019 & Friday September 6, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What is your favorite season and why?

Student Interviews: You will be interviewing one of your fellow classmates and then reporting out their answers. There will be two rounds, questions 1,2,3 will be asked in the first round and questions 1,4,5 will be the second round.

The questions will be:

- Whats your name?

- What town are you from?

- What's your favorite movie?

- How many pairs of shoes do you own?

- If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

Mapping the World: I will be projecting a blank world map up on the wall. We will be working together as a class to fill in the map. We will then have a class competition where students will be paired into teams and compete to find locations on the map the fastest. 

7 Continents

5 Oceans

USA

Canada

Mexico

Russia

China

India

UK

Five Themes: I will be introducing the five themes of geography. I will be explaining to the class what each of the five themes is and why it's important. Students will then work together in groups to describe Maine using the five themes of geography. They will then write a claim, evidence, warrant paragraph arguing whether Maine is or isn't a great place to live.

Exit Ticket: What is one thing you are excited about for high school and what is one thing you are nervous about?

Tuesday September 3, 2019 & Wednesday September 4, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be working to build a classroom community. Students will be able to identify major landmarks on a map.

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

Learning Targets: We will be talking about what a learning target is and what impact it has on our classroom.

Birthday Lineup: Students will be attempting to lineup according to their birthdays without talking or writing. They will then attempt to lineup in alphabetical order by last names.

Mapping Pretest: Students will be working individually to complete a pretest over world, regional, and local mapping.

Tower Building: Students will be given toothpicks and marshmallows. In their small groups, students will work together to try and be the group with the tallest free standing tower after 10 minutes.

Reflection: If you had the chance to do the tower building competition again, what would you do differently and why?

Exit Ticket: What is one thing you are excited about for high school and what is one thing you are nervous about?