Geography for Life Geography’s Key Concepts, Skills and Perspectives & ISSEarthKAM.
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Transcript of Geography for Life Geography’s Key Concepts, Skills and Perspectives & ISSEarthKAM.
• who sees meaning in the arrangement of things in space…
Can you identify London, Amsterdam, Rome, Moscow, and Berlin?
A geographically informed person…
• And who applies spatial and ecological perspectives to life situations.
A geographically informed person…
• Six essential elements– World in Spatial
Terms– Places and Regions– Physical Systems– Human Systems– Environment &
Society– Uses of Geography
The World in Spatial Terms
• Std 1: Using maps, globes and geographic representations to acquire, process, report information
• Std 2: Use mental maps to organize information
• Std 3: Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments
Spatial Relations
• Skills needed to recognize spatial distribution and spatial patterns
• Identify shapes
• Recalling and representing layouts
• Connecting locations
• Associating and correlating spatially distributed phenomena
Spatial Relations (cont.)
• Comprehending & using spatial hierarchies• Regionalizing• Comprehending distance decay and
nearest neighbor effects• Imagining maps from verbal descriptions• Sketch mapping• Comparing maps• Overlaying and dissolving maps
Places & Regions
• Std 4: Human & physical characteristics of places
• Std 5: People create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity
• Std 6: Culture & experience influence people’s perceptions of places/regions
Physical Systems• Std 7: Physical
processes that shape patterns of Earth’s surface
• Std 8: Characteristics and distribution of ecosystems
Human Systems• Std 9: Char’s,
distribution, migration of humans
• Std 10: Char’s, distribution of cultures
• Std 11: Patterns and networks of economic interdependence
• Std 12: Processes, patterns, functions of human settlements
• Std 13: Conflict and cooperation
Environment & Society• Std 14: How human
actions modify the physical environment
• Std 15: How physical systems affect human systems
• Std 16: The meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources
Uses of Geography• Std 17: How to apply
geography to interpret the past
• Std 18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future