World Studies Unit 1 Connecting Themes 6th Grade Social Studies World Studies Unit 1 Connecting Themes

Question: What are some major ideas that geographers study?

Brain Pop: Geography Themes The Brain Pop talks about 5 themes. Can you name them? Location Region Place Movement Environment

Create Foldable Fold paper ‘hotdog’ and leave about an inch from the edge. Wait for further folding instructions

8 Themes of Global Studies Title the foldable: 8 Themes of Global Studies

What affects how your family earns income? Have you ever lived in another region of US? World? Was the lifestyle (jobs, houses, entertainment) different?

a place of settlement, activity, or residence. What is location? a place of settlement, activity, or residence. A place where something is or could be located; a site.

Location Location affects a society’s economy, culture and development. Cow on busy street in Bombay, India

How does the location of each of these communities affect its economy, culture, and development? Laguna Beach, CA Mountain village in Nothern Pakistan Desert community near Luxor, Egypt 11-24-07  

On your foldable…. Choose a section and write LOCATION Draw a picture that makes you think about LOCATION

Location Where is it? Absolute location—uses lines of latitude and longitude Relative location—Your location in relation to another location Look at Google Earth

What causes families to move? What causes large groups of people to move? What are the positive/negative consequences of moving? How can society be affected by large groups of people moving?

What is migration? to go from one country, region, or place to another. move, resettle. to make such a move either once or repeatedly. Migrate is applied both to people or to animals that move from one region to another, especially periodically.

Movement/Migration The movement or migration of people affects all societies involved. Oregon Trail Video

Movement/Migration The movement or migration of people affects all societies involved. Arriving at Ellis Island, New York Harbor

What do you think these people are doing? Mongolian villagers migrate to the ever decreasing grassland regions to escape the desertification of areas of Inner Mongolia.

On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Movement Draw a picture that makes you think about Movement

Movement Transportation—Goods Migration—People Diffusion—Ideas push pull forced Diffusion—Ideas relocation contagious hierarchical migration ppt

How does a society adapt to its environment? Why would a society change its environment? What are some consequences of that change? How have you experienced human environment interaction?

What is environment? The nature, conditions, and circumstances that surround a person, animal, or thing make up the environment. Your bedroom is your environment, and so is your planet. A car in a wet environment may become rusty.

act together or towards others or with others. What is interaction? act together or towards others or with others. to act, or have some effect, on each other.

Human Environmental Interaction Humans, their societies, and their environment affect each other.

Which of the following describe the environment of this classroom? Quiet Noisy Structured Unorganized Attractive Boring Exciting Dangerous Supportive Scary Friendly State-of-art technology Literature rich Other How can your actions help or hurt the classroom environment?

Human Environmental Interaction How much longer will we wait? The future is in our hands. Music - “ONLY TIME” by enya

How do humans interact with the environment in order to survive? How does environment affect what humans eat?

Human Environmental Interaction On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Human Environmental Interaction Draw a picture that makes you think about

Human environmental interactions How man impacts the environment and How the environment impacts man

How does conflict with your friends change your relationship? What conflict have you experienced in your life? What changed occurred as a result? Why is there change when you have conflict between or within societies? Why does change always follow conflict?

Conflict and Change When two people, ideas, or forces work against each other, they are in conflict. A quarrel is a conflict; war is conflict; a pitcher and batter are in conflict. Change is a new state of being. Everything in nature is constantly changing—including people. Conflict causes change.

Conflict Causes Change When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.

What’s the conflict? What change was the result?

CONFLICT? CHANGE?

On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Conflict and Change Draw a picture that makes you think about Conflict and Change

Conflict and Change When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.

What in your life has changed but remained the same? How can a society change but basic components remain the same over a period of time? Why might a society remain the same even if there is change over time?

Time, Change, and Continuity Photos? Think of US

Time, Change and Continuity While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of that society.

uninterrupted connection or union What is continuity? flow, progression uninterrupted connection or union the state or quality of being continuous

Time, Change and Continuity While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of society. Time, Change and Continuity

Kern County Courthouse, California 1896 1866 1922 1952

On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Time, Change, and Continuity Draw a picture that makes you think about Time, Change and Continuity

Time, Change, and Continuity While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of that society

What are the elements of culture? What are the characteristics of your society’s culture? How does religion affect culture? Why do societies have cultural conflict? What cultural conflicts have you seen within your school and the United States? How can government actions (i.e. laws) affect the culture of a society?

What is culture? Habit, custom, tradition, language, celebration, food, religion, family organization, work, and play: all these make up our culture. Think of culture as “the way we do things around here.” In another country—or neighborhood--people do things differently. That’s their culture

Culture The culture of a society is the product of the religion, beliefs, customs, traditions, and government of that society. Untouched Amazonian Tribe Caught On Camera

What Makes Up Culture? Government Institutions Foods Art Dress Traditions, Customs, Beliefs Foods CULTURE Art Dress Language Religion

What factors influence our culture? TRADITIONS GOVERNMENT FOOD BELIEFS ART LANGUAGE RELIGION INSTITUTIONS CLOTHING

On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Culture Draw a picture that makes you think about Culture

Culture A society's culture is the product of its religion, beliefs, values, language, customs, traditions, and government.

Mental Break…Did you know….? A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.

What is Governance? A group of two people—or two million—has to work things out. They need a system of governance, a way to make decisions together. Governance describes who has power, how some people keep and hold power, and how other people can bring about change.

Governance As a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of the government also increases.

What is complexity? complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea. Involving many parts; complicated; intricate

Which society would have the most complex system of government? Why?

In sports, how does the complexity of rules change as players move up in a career?

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Complex, 1991

More people = more businesses = more protection = more laws = more complexity in government. More interaction between different groups = more laws and government.

On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Governance Draw a picture that makes you think about Governance

Governance As a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of its government also increases. Govt ppt

What are the components of an economy? What influences an economy? How are items that you buy produced, distributed, and consumed? How is the economy of our area affected by location, customs, beliefs, and laws?

What is Economics? Check out video, What is Econ? on Safari Montage Power Point

the system of production and distribution and consumption What is economy?  the system of production and distribution and consumption organization of money and resources

What is production? * creation; manufacture

What is distribution? * To sell and ship or deliver (an item or line of merchandise) to individual customers, esp. in a specified region or area. * To deliver or pass out * To spread throughout a given area

to use or use up consumer goods; to use up resources or materials What is consumption? to use or use up consumer goods; to use up resources or materials to purchase economic goods and services

articles of trade; wares; merchandise objects etc for sale, products What are goods? articles of trade; wares; merchandise objects etc for sale, products

What are services? the duty or work of public servants the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional activity supplying aids or activities rather than products or goods

Production, Distribution, and Consumption: The production, distribution and consumption of goods/services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society

Choose a section and write Production, Distribution, and Consumption On your foldable…. Choose a section and write Production, Distribution, and Consumption Draw a picture that makes you think about Production, Distribution, and Consumption

Production, Distribution, and Consumption Goods/Services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society

Mental Break…Did you know….? There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

2008 Beijing Olympics song"Welcome to Beijing“ As you watch this video, write down examples of the following themes that you see. Be specific in your descriptions. Conflict and Change Time, Change and Continuity Culture Governance Location Movement/Migration Human Environmental Interaction Production, Distribution, and Consumption http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoSt7B57uWQ