Download The United States and Canada Monday, August 31

Do Now…
 Take out your World Geography materials
 Take out your homework over the weekend (Class map
and Population Density Activity) and place them in
the Turn In Box
Review Quizzes…
 Climate
 Temperature
 Precipitation
 Vegetation
 Temperature
 Precipitation
 Elevation
 Latitude
 Any questions…
Review Concepts…
Go Geography…
 Topic: Intro to US and Canada
 What do you know?! List all the geographical/cultural
facts you can about the United States and Canada
 Rally Robin – Rapid Fire
Intro Map…
 Use your Atlases and smart devices (website: World
Factbook) to fill in each of the elements for your
individual map of the United States
Impact of Landscape and Resources…
 How does the landscape and natural resources impact
each country’s economy?
 How does the landscape and natural resources impact
settlement patterns?
Standard of Living Paragraph…
 What is standard of living?
 Standard of living the degree of wealth and material
comfort available to a person or community
 Use information from the textbook (Chapter 2) or
world fact book to write a paragraph explaining the
factors that contribute to the standard of living in the
United States and Canada.
Closure…
 What did we learn today?
Do Now…
 After quietly taking your seat, take out your World
Geography materials along with your homework from
the last few days
 DO NOT PUT IT IN THE TURN IN BOX
Homework Turn-In
 Put each of the following activities in neat piles on
your tables:
 Population Density Activity
 Classroom Map
 The United States and Canada Map
 Landscape and Resources Impact Chart
Go Geography!
 Topic: The Mighty Mississippi
 In which state does the Mississippi River
begin?
 Roughly how many states look like their
economy could be affected by the
Mississippi?
 In what ways do you believe Baton Rouge
and New Orleans specifically might be
affected by the Mississippi?
Regions of the United States and
Canada
 Use your atlas and smart devices to determine these
landform regions (outline and shade):
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Pacific Mountains
(Intermountain) Basins and Plateaus
Rocky Mountains
(Interior) Great Plains
Central Plain/Lowlands
Canadian Shield
Arctic Coastal Plains
Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain
Appalachian Mountains/Highlands
Connecting Regions to Natural
Resources
Do Now…
 Take out your World Geography Materials
 Pass back the Material in the Pick Up box
Go Geography!
 Topic: Standard of Living in the US and Canada
 According to the video, what are some relevant factors
that contribute to a person/country’s standard of
living?
 How would your describe the standard of living in the
United States? Explain.
Standard of Living
 What is a standard of living?
 What are the factors that contribute to standard of
living?
 Text Chain – Factors that contribute to standard of
living
 Group Summary
 Standard of living is the degree of wealth and material
comfort available to a person or community
Standard of Living
 Text Chain – Definition and Factors that contribute to
standard of living….
 Each person will write down their definition of
standard of living and what contributes to it (1)
 Next pass the papers to the right, write your definition
on the paper you receive (2)
 For (3) and (4) see if you can your definition from
before
Regions determined by standards
of living factors
 Some regions are determined by the material items produced, as
well as other non-material items that affect standard of living
 United States: Bread Basket, Rust Belt, Tornado Alley, Great
Plains, Silicon Valley, Cotton Belt, San Andres Fault, Sunbelt,
and New South
 Canada: Atlantic, Central, Prairie, West Coast, and the North
 Work in groups to determine:
 1) Where is it? (by putting it on the Map, you have answered this
question)
 2) What sets this region apart from the rest of the country? How
does the region influence standard of living?
Challenges between regions…
 How do the human characteristics of a region affect
the communication and interaction between regions?
 How do the physical characteristics of a region affect
the communication and interaction between regions?
 Mix – Share – Switch
Factors that bring regions together…
 What are the unifying physical and human
characteristics of the region? What brings people
together?
 Summary Paragraph
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Big picture followed by examples…
Closure…
Do Now…
 After entering the class QUIETLY, take your seat and
get out your World Geography materials.
 If you have Homework to turn in, place it in the Turn
In Box
Go Geography!
 Topic: Climate Zones
 Review: What two factors determine climate?
 How might a climate zone affect the standard of living,
land use, settlement patterns, and economic activities
of a specific place?
Examining the Physical and Human
Characteristics of the US and Canada
 Find an example of the following maps for North
America in Your Atlas:
 Political,
 Physical,
 Vegetation,
 Population,
 Land use,
 Resource
 Make note of the Atlas and page in which you find the
map
Climate Regions – Describing Regions
 Each group gets a region…
 Within your climate regions, use the maps at your
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disposal to determine the following information
1) States and/or Provinces
2) Most common elevation
3) Types of vegetation found
4) Sentences explaining the population trends
5) How the land is used, including common resources
 Present the Information to the Class
Comparing Canada and US
 Literature to Read
 Describe the physical and human characteristics of the
United States and Canada
 What are the differences, what characteristics do they
share
 Venn Diagram
Closure
Do Now…
 After quietly taking your seat, please take out your
Homework from last night (put in the turn in box) and
World Geography materials
 There was a mouse running around the front of the
room earlier, so watch where you step…
 There is some candy in the back corner of the room by
the paper towels, first come first serve…
Go Geography…
 Topic: Push and Pull Factors
 How would you describe a push factor and a pull
factor?
 The circumstances at the beginning of class, which
was a push factor and which was a pull factor?
 Can you recall a push/pull factor involving the United
States in the past? What were they?
So What Exactly are Push/Pull
Factors
 Push-Pull Factors. When people migrate, they don't
just leave one place and magically arrive somewhere
else. Usually something pushes them away from their
native country and pulls them toward a new place.
This idea is called the push-pull factor
 Push/Pull Factors Activity
Examining Immigration Trends into
America…
 Students will research their heritage or a country of
interest using your smart device.
 As you conduct your research summaries, important
information notes should be taken from each source
and recorded into a Graphic Organizer.
 Research should focus on determining possible
reasons for your ancestors’ migration to the United
States and should be classified as push or pull factors.
 At the End, you will write a Summary Paragraph
explaining the information you found.
Common Push/Pull factors…
 What are some of the major Push or Pull Factors you
discovered?
The Effects of War/Conflicts
 How do wars or conflicts affect immigration trends?
 Common examples of wars or conflicts involving
America?
Connecting Conflicts to
Geography…
 What part does geography play in major conflicts?
 How do conflict effect the geography of a place?
 Closing Go Geography!
 Reflect on the questions above, discuss with your
shoulder partner
 Respond in your Go Geography
Closure…
 No Homework over the weekend
 Will most likely have a test a week from today… so
keep that in mind