Chapter 9 begins with the analogy of the cart. The cart has 4 wheels: Pre-Service Training, In-Service Training, Curricular Position and Teaching Materials and Gersmehl goes into more detail later in the chapter. The analogy, as a whole, says that the educational support car needs all 4 wheels to run.
Initially, Pre-Service Training talks about learning to teach and teacher wind up teaching what and how they were taught in college and usually it entails no geography. Later in the chapter, he essentially says that Pre-Service Training is learning how to teach, going through college, making a portfolio and work with different topics. He also says students should use raw data and learn how to properly use them and lists examples.
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The section talks about what makes a location useful. The two points are the culture of the people and nature of the place and they can also define what’s feasible in a place. This is called the cultural definition of resources. A feature is a resource only if people think it is. It discusses determinism which is the belief that conditions in specific places determine what people do there. “Place and Process” is essentially about Regional and Topical geography and how they should be taught together for the betterment of the students. Regional approaches tend to be more local in scale and descriptive. They combine information from a variety of sources to describe what’s happening in a place. Topical outlines are more global and analytical. Reference maps use many symbols to show different features that occur in an area. A thematic map uses few symbols to show spatial pattern of a limited number of variables, usually …show more content…
I could use some of the raw data examples that is mentioned in Chapter 9’s “Teaching Materials” section. The portion about being a little flexible is something I could work on for the unit also because I have a layout in my head right now of what I would like to do but that doesn’t mean that when I put it into the outline that it’s going to work the way I think. I might have to reorganize according to what makes sense content-wise. For future use in general, I know that taking advantage of the “teachable moment” is important because often times some of the best learning can occur during this time so again, I need to work on not being so rigid with scheduling like I currently
1. Aspects of cultural geography: This is a field which focuses on spatial aspects of human cultures, which is spilt between cultural hearths and cultural landscapes. Cultural hearths are the crucibles of civilization that changed regions, mainly due to cultural diffusion. Understanding the cultural diffusions allows geographers to study the migration patterns of civilizations. Cultural landscape is the landforms that a culture creates. Physical and cultural geography interact in unity.
As Americans we live in isolation, surrounded by advertisements, electronic screens, fast food, the internet, etc. We live these lives while thousands scream out in hunger and thirst begging to nourish their families. Living lives in excess, often unknowingly supporting a system that is not sustainable, breeds capitalism, and unplugs us from the rest of the world. Having been raised in a typical suburban home my ideas of culture were going to Olive Garden or walking by Riverside in Minneapolis. However, Geography 111 has challenged what I believed, truly allowing me to grasp that I am not part of solution I am problem that spreads neocolonialism, capitalism, and western culture wherever a profit can be made. Learning about these topics and combining it with a geographical perspective I know will enable me to break from the molds and forge new paths.
He gives examples of this by explaining what in his opinion is Geography and spatial aspect.The good and the bad things that people use Geography for. Then he discuss the history
Places can have multiple meaning and value depending on the perspective it is viewed from (Massey as cited in Kaplan & Recoquillon, 2014). It can be valued for its’ mythical and historical background, its’ physical and architectural state, and the environmental role it plays in the lives of most people. According to Margaret Somerville (2013) the continent of Australia was created and shaped by two sisters who travelled around its’ perimeters. These mythical stories were established to fit the landscape and to create a visual narrative of Australia. In addition to these mythical
The map presented is a map of California. The map shows roads, highways, regions of water, islands, street names, and landmarks. The map is from 2016. It was produced by Color-Art. INC. If I were to use this map in class I believe that it would fit into chapter 1 (Basic concepts). In chapter one we talk about GIS( Geographic information system) which is a system that layers sections for a map, in the map shown it must've used a GIS, because they would start out with the land mass, then the next layer would be the highways, then the roads, and finally the street names and landmarks. Chapter one also talks about scale,the scale on the map is one inch=.85 miles. Finally, the chapter talks about projections, the map shows is a Mercator projection.
Until the 1950s, Atlases were mostly comprised of maps that simply show space and place. However in 1953, the World Geo-Graphic Atlas, published by Walter Paepcke’s Container Corporation of America (CCA) with Herbert Bayer, changed people’s notion of what maps look like and what information they contain. Bayer believed, that maps were “a record of time and perhaps even a tool of prognostication.” By the use of Isotypes (International System of Typographic Picture Education), Bayer created an atlas that is universal, therefore allowed viewers to understand complex data more clearly and easily.
The question that I will be answering for my coursework is which is best at protecting the Northumberland coastline – groynes or beach nourishment. I will be going to Blyth beach also I will be visiting Newbiggen beach I am investigating the Northumberland coastline as part of my geography coursework also because I live in the UK and I want to see how safe the people of the UK are with the safety of the coastline and its defences against coastal erosion. We will be visiting the Northumberland coastline on Thursday the 15th of May 2014.
Gibbs, G (1988) Learning by Doing, A guide to teaching and learning methods. Cheltenham: The Geography Discipline Network. (GDN).
The Five Themes of Geography are: Location – Absolute points on a map or grid or Relative to where something may be; Place – The physical and/or human characteristics of a locations; Human/Environment Interactions – How humans have impacted the landscape or environment; Relationship between places Movement – How humans interact on the earth (i.e. how they communicate over distance (short or long)) and Regions – a unit of space that has commonalities defined by physical, human and environmental geography. The Explorers of the New World may have not known what the Five Themes of Geography were but they quickly learned. Of the five themes the ones that they all took advantage of was the physical Location and Place as they learned to navigate to and from as well as through their new environments. Over Time the explorers began to discover the relationships within their environments and original occupants of the lands as well as the regions in which they now occupied.
Geography’s Impact on Culture and Society. When studying ancient civilizations and the beginning societies of the world, the geography has shaped its story significantly. Depending on the location of the civilization, whether or not water was nearby was crucial for its survival. With trade networks, metals, foods, and languages were spread.
Since the beginning of humankind, the study of geography has captured the imagination of the people. In ancient times, geography books extolled tales of distant lands and dreamed of treasures. The ancient Greeks created the word "geography" from the roots "ge" for earth and "grapho" for "to write." These people experienced many adventures and needed a way to explain and communicate the differences between various lands. Today, researchers in the field of geography still focus on people and cultures (cultural geography), and the planet earth (physical geography).
Hart, Diane. Geography Alive! Regions and People. Palo Alto, CA: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2006. Print.
After finishing the teaching part of the lesson, I realized that not everything goes according to plan. For example, in our lesson plan, we had the explain portion detailed and outlined to teach students the technical terms of what they were seeing in the stations and other activities and make it a collaborative effort within groups to work with the vocabulary words. However, the teaching of the plan was not well executed. Also, I learned that teaching a topic does not have to be boring or just full of worksheets. Fun, engaging lab stations and interactive activities can fulfill the standards and requirements just as well, if not better, than basic worksheets and PowerPoint lectures. Lastly, I realized that lesson planning and teaching require a great deal of effort and work, but it is all worth it when a light bulb goes off in a students’ head and they learn something new and are excited to be learning and extend their science
The scope of this paper will identify and help readers to visualize the three National standards listed under the heading topic "Places and Regions." By explaining the past and the present of Botswana, including how the people, culture, economy, beliefs, and government have changed, the reader will understand National Standard number four which says: "Knows and understands the physical and human characteristics of places." I am hoping that this paper will open some of our ethnocentric minds to understand the growing world around us. It will also help define National Standard number five which states: "Knows and understands that people define regions and use them to interpret the world’s changing complexity." Botswana is a third world country, however, it is becoming more known because of its developing economy and stable government.
In the process of completing this coursework, I have realised that every teacher should be all-rounded and equipped with adequate skills of educating others as well as self-learning. As a future educator, we need make sure that our knowledge is always up-to-date and applicable in the process of teaching and learning from time to time. With these skills, we will be able to improvise and improve the lesson and therefore boost the competency of pupils in the process of learning. In the process of planning a lesson, I have changed my perception on lesson planning from the student’s desk to the teacher’s desk. I have taken the responsibility as a teacher to plan a whole 60-minutes lesson with my group members. This coursework has given me an opportunity