1. Model Mapping and Exercises
Learning to Read Maps
Model Mapping and Exercises

2. I. Geography Questions
A. What impact does geography have on our lives? How would your life be different if you lived in a…
1. Desert?
2. On an island?
3. In the rainforest?
B. What is physical geography (what does physical mean)?
Physical geography includes landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil quality, resources, and plant & animal life.
C. What is human geography (what does human mean)?
Human geography studies where people live, economic activities, religious beliefs, and languages.
D. How do both physical and human geography affect people?

3. II. Ethnocentrism
A. What two words can you see in the single word ethnocentrism?
i. Ethnic (meaning your ethnicity, your background or culture) and center (meaning most important)
ii. What does an ethnocentric person believe about their own culture? What about other cultures?
a. Someone who is ethnocentric believes their culture is the greatest and that all other cultures aren’t as great.
B. Why do we call China the “far east”?
i. Clue: Which map are you used to seeing?
C. Americans call China the “far east” because we think of America as the center of the world and China seems far away. If you were in China, America would be the “far east”!

4. Get ready to draw your own map!

5. Our Classroom: High School Rm. 109N
Our Classroom: High School Rm. 109
DOOR
These are other symbols, what do you think they represent?
F o l l o w T h e
CABINETS
This is a border with a label, telling you what a space represents on a map. E W
CABINETS
Y O U R D E S K S !
P a t h
!!!
This is a key, it shows you what symbols mean and how they can help you.
!!!=SURPRISE N,S,E,W=DIRECTION
This is a border, it separates space on a map. S
KEY

7. III. Map Question…
A. What kind of map was the map you just drew was it a…
i. Physical Map? How do you know this?
or a…
ii. Human Map? How do you know this?
B. It was a human map because it showed what humans made, this classroom! It would have been physical if it showed what was here before the school (the hills, types of grass, etc.)

8. Global Geography Review
*Take two minutes and FROM MEMORY try to fill out as much of the map as possible.
*The word bank to the map will be on the next slide.
*After two minutes you will be given time to check.

9. Name:________________
Word Bank:
Places:
*Africa*Antarctica
*Asia*Europe
*North America
*South America
*Australia
Oceans: *Atlantic Ocean *Pacific Ocean *Arctic ocean *Indian Ocean

10. Label Important Places and Oceans
Arctic Ocean
Asia
North America
Europe
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
South America
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Australia
Oceans:
*Atlantic Ocean *Pacific Ocean *Arctic ocean *Indian Ocean
Word Bank:
Places: *Africa *Antarctica *Asia *Australia *Europe *North America *South America
Antarctica