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Meeting in lobby of Iacocca! 6:30. We will head outside
Back in class: Let's make sure we're lined up for microteaching next week...
Geography ed! I have no idea how far we are going to get through this; expect some of these to roll over to next week / week after...
TRADITIONAL: What's where and what's it called
A gameified approach: Stack the States / Stack the Countries
Who can name the most post-Soviet republics? Name which countries in Africa were not created via de-colonization? (Tricky question...)
Sketchmaps! Draw me a sketchmap of...Iacocca Hall? Canada?
What is the tallest mountain in North America? Let's take a look via Google Maps...
DISCIPLINARY - Tools of geography
Scaffolded geocache
Other coordinate systems: Try this? https://what3words.com/
Mapping an orange (see the lesson plan I'm adapting here: https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp009.shtml
Video: “orange globe”
Video: “Why All World Maps Are Wrong” (Vox) – first 45 seconds cover the main move of the lesson plan; rest is a pretty worthwhile discussion of projections, tech, etc.
Photos & video
Photos
Flickr map: https://www.flickr.com/map – my usual move is to search for 'mosque'
'What the World Eats' activity (see ppt in CourseSite)
Video – I'll demonstrate this through a couple of things posted to YouTube...but I'm not going to link them in advance
DISCIPLINARY - The whys of where
So why did the name of the tallest mountain in North America change? Or should we instead say the name(s) didn't change so much as the pattern of use changed? And why did that pattern of use change?
More playing with names and their significance: What's in a State Name? See this spreadsheet, then this map
Follow-ups: Can you do this same thing with Canada? Fun trick: Look at maps of Canada in the English version of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada ) vs. the French version (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Provinces_et_territoires )
How about Mexico? Guatemala? County names in Pennsylvania? County names in England?
SOCIAL - Geography is power!
Initial example of what I'm talking about: "Town map of Bethlehem and vicinity", circa 1758: https://exhibits.lafayette.edu/s/lvhmc/item/35941
Maps that make a point: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8618261/america-maps-truths
Geospatial inquiry: Weaving the Globe (this is again a lesson borrowed from elsewhere, in this case an old article in Social Education)
Geospatial inquiry in students' neighborhoods: Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse and Other (Un)natural Disasters
Homebrewing your own localized historical geographic inquiry: Sanborn maps. For example, what's buried underneath Lehigh's College of Business?? (Look here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IfeI25VDAmnGXOmCSYM_lvH81lrjvegu/view?usp=sharing )
Maps, analysis, and making decisions: Eagles and Wind Turbines (see Leeson et al., 2022)
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