Students will complete a PRA with every chapter. You will find instructions below.
PRA Chapter 1
Chapter Summary
Our study of human geography will analyze people and places and explain how they interact across space and time to create our world. Chapters 2 and 3 lay the basis for our study of human geography by looking at where people live. Chapters 4-7 focus on aspects of culture and how people use culture and identity to make sense of themselves in their world. The remaining chapters examine how people have created a world in which they function economically, politically, and socially, and how their activities in those realms re-create themselves and their world (page34).
Key Questions
Field Note: Awakening to World Hunger
1-8
1. What is human geography?
8-9
2.What are geographic questions?
9-15
3. Why do geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us?
15-22
4.Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
23-31
5.What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic questions?
32-33
Chapter 1 Outline
A. What Is Human Geography?
B. What Are Geographic Questions?
1. Introduction
2. Maps in the Time of Cholera Pandemics
3. The Spatial Perspective
a. The Five Themes
b. Cultural Landscape
C. Why Do Geographers Use Maps, and What Do Maps Tell Us?
1. Introduction
2. Mental Maps
3. Generalization in Maps
D. Remote Sensing and GISD. Why Are Geographers Concerned with Scale and Connectedness?
1. Introduction
2. Regions
a. Introduction: Formal, Functional, and Perceptual
b. Perceptual Regions in the United States
3. Culture
4. Connectedness through Diffusion
a. Introduction
b. Expansion Diffusion
c. Relocation Diffusion
E. What Are Geographic Concepts, and How Are They Used in Answering Geographic Questions?
1. Introduction
2. Environmental Determinism
3. Possibilism
4. Today’s Human Geography
***Geographic Concepts Dictionary***
Terms Definition Symbol and Sentence using the term
Pre- Reading Activity (PRA)
1. Write down each of the Key Questions and the number of pages for each (Look at key questions section to complete).
2. After looking over the Key Questions, read the chapter summary, write a few
sentences about what you expect to learn in general in this chapter.
3. Preview the entire chapter and look at all the maps, tables, charts, and pictures. Read the captions. Briefly describe IN
YOUR OWN WORDS five maps or charts and what pages they are located.
4. How many maps are there in this Chapter? _________
5. Read the Field Note introduction of the chapter and list five specific facts you learned.
6. Read the Field Note introduction of the chapter and list five specific facts you learned.
7. I Think I know I Need to know chart
Go to your Geographic Concepts Dictionary that you have created then create a list of terms you think you know and terms you need to know.
Vocabulary
Students will find vocabulary(concepts) at the end of each chapter. Students must follow the format when completing vocabulary terms.
PRA Chapter 1
Chapter Summary
Our study of human geography will analyze people and places and explain how they interact across space and time to create our world. Chapters 2 and 3 lay the basis for our study of human geography by looking at where people live. Chapters 4-7 focus on aspects of culture and how people use culture and identity to make sense of themselves in their world. The remaining chapters examine how people have created a world in which they function economically, politically, and socially, and how their activities in those realms re-create themselves and their world (page34).
Key Questions
Field Note: Awakening to World Hunger
1-8
1. What is human geography?
8-9
2.What are geographic questions?
9-15
3. Why do geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us?
15-22
4.Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
23-31
5.What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic questions?
32-33
Chapter 1 Outline
A. What Is Human Geography?
B. What Are Geographic Questions?
1. Introduction
2. Maps in the Time of Cholera Pandemics
3. The Spatial Perspective
a. The Five Themes
b. Cultural Landscape
C. Why Do Geographers Use Maps, and What Do Maps Tell Us?
1. Introduction
2. Mental Maps
3. Generalization in Maps
D. Remote Sensing and GISD. Why Are Geographers Concerned with Scale and Connectedness?
1. Introduction
2. Regions
a. Introduction: Formal, Functional, and Perceptual
b. Perceptual Regions in the United States
3. Culture
4. Connectedness through Diffusion
a. Introduction
b. Expansion Diffusion
c. Relocation Diffusion
E. What Are Geographic Concepts, and How Are They Used in Answering Geographic Questions?
1. Introduction
2. Environmental Determinism
3. Possibilism
4. Today’s Human Geography
***Geographic Concepts Dictionary***
Terms Definition Symbol and Sentence using the term
Pre- Reading Activity (PRA)
1. Write down each of the Key Questions and the number of pages for each (Look at key questions section to complete).
2. After looking over the Key Questions, read the chapter summary, write a few
sentences about what you expect to learn in general in this chapter.
3. Preview the entire chapter and look at all the maps, tables, charts, and pictures. Read the captions. Briefly describe IN
YOUR OWN WORDS five maps or charts and what pages they are located.
4. How many maps are there in this Chapter? _________
5. Read the Field Note introduction of the chapter and list five specific facts you learned.
6. Read the Field Note introduction of the chapter and list five specific facts you learned.
7. I Think I know I Need to know chart
Go to your Geographic Concepts Dictionary that you have created then create a list of terms you think you know and terms you need to know.
Vocabulary
Students will find vocabulary(concepts) at the end of each chapter. Students must follow the format when completing vocabulary terms.
