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?