1. Monday 9/12/16
Warm up: watch regions video (next slide). On your sheet- Define a REGION
A Spatial Way of Thinking – Sections 7 & 8
Economic Activity: Land & Resources
Regions
Film – Geographical Features: Landforms
HW: Finish “A Spatial Way of Thinking” (if you have any missing sections)
Test Friday Sept 16th

7. What is a region?

17. Agenda 9/13/16 HW: Complete any missing work!
TEKS: (6) Geography. The student understands that geographical patterns result from physical environmental processes. The student is expected to:
(A) describe and explain the effects of physical environmental processes such as erosion, ocean currents, and earthquakes on Earth's surface; Readiness Standard
(C) analyze the effects of the interaction of physical processes and the environment on humans; Readiness Standard
Language Objective: Students will be able to describe and explain how forces shape the earth.
Physical Processes
Tectonic Movement
Glaciations
Volcanic Activity
Erosion
Cornell Notes
HW: Complete any missing work!
**Geography Test on Friday Sept 16th

18. Physical Process:
Erosion
Glaciations
Tectonic Movement
Volcanic Activity

20. How Tectonic Movement Shapes Earth
In 1906, a terrifying earthquake shook San Francisco, California. “Trolley lines snapped like threads” and buildings “crumbled like card houses,” wrote one eye-witness. “The cobblestones danced like corn in a popper.” No one at that time understood how or why earthquakes happen. Today we know that they are caused by tectonic movement.
The Continents and Oceans Rest on Plates Scientists solved the mystery of earthquakes in the 1960s. They discovered that the lithosphere is broken into huge pieces called tectonic plates. Earth’s lands and seas rest on these plates, which lie below the surface of our planet. The plates float like rafts on Earth’s liquid mantle.
Tectonic plates move in three ways.
1. They can move away from each other.
2. They can move toward each other.
3 They can scrape sideways past each other. When two plates collide, one usually slides under the other.
Tectonic plates are incredibly heavy. When they meet, friction can lock them into place for long periods. During this time, enormous pressure builds up below Earth’s crust. When the pressure gets too great, the plates come unstuck and move with tremendous energy. We feel this sudden movement as an earthquake.

21. A Crust of Moving Plates
Earth’s solid crust is made up
of tectonic plates. These plates
float on the liquid rock that makes up the middle layer of
Earth. There are at least 14 plates, some very large in area,
some smaller.

22. Tectonic Movement- 3 minutes

25. Agenda 9/14/16 HW: Complete any missing work!
TEKS: (6) Geography. The student understands that geographical patterns result from physical environmental processes. The student is expected to:
(A) describe and explain the effects of physical environmental processes such as erosion, ocean currents, and earthquakes on Earth's surface; Readiness Standard
(C) analyze the effects of the interaction of physical processes and the environment on humans; Readiness Standard
Language Objective: Students will be able to describe and explain how forces shape the earth.
Continue Physical Processes
Tectonic Movement
Glaciations
Volcanic Activity
Erosion
Finish Cornell Notes
HW: Complete any missing work!
**Geography Test on Friday Sept 16th

26. Glaciations Process
2 min video- Yellowstone

28. Volcanic Activity- 3 minutes

30. Erosion Video- 3 minutes

34. a physiographic feature is.
Physio means "physical," graphic means "written down or recorded," and feature means "a particular characteristic of something." Thus, a physiographic feature is a physical characteristic of the land-a lake, a mountain, a river, a desert--that is recorded on a map.

35. TED Blog
13 October 2010
Haiti’s disaster of engineering: Peter Haas on TED.com

36. Thursday 9/15/16 Review for Test- work on study guide
Go over study guide & images on slides
HW: *STUDY FOR TEST!*

37. Types of Maps
Political Map
Thematic Map
Physical Map

44. Agenda 9/16/16 HW: Complete any missing work!
All Geography Skills TEKS
****GET OUT A PENCIL!!****
Geography Skills Test
HW: Complete any missing work!

45. Agenda 9/18/15 HW: Complete any missing work!
TEKS: (6.3C) compare various world regions and countries using data from geographic tools, including maps, graphs, charts, databases, and models.
(6.4D) identify and locate major physical and human geographic features such as landforms, water bodies, and urban centers of various places and regions.
Language Objective: Students will understand the significance of the Mesopotamian River Valley civilization.
Mapping Activity – Mesopotamian Empires
Each group will need the following supplies:
World Map
Dry-Erase Marker
Atlas
Eraser (Tissue)
Mesopotamian Empires Worksheet
HW: Complete any missing work!