Blocks 1 & 2 -- Notebook Check 4
2/7 Bellringer: Write the following questions in your notebook, leaving a few lines to write an answer.View this website(press play to cycle through the images)What do you see happening? (observation)What do you think it is showing? (inference)How might this lead to problems? (inference) 2/8 & 2/9 Bellringer: What are three things you know about debates?2/22 & 2/23 Bellringer: Give three examples of physical geography and three examples of human geography for Latin America
2/24 Bellringer-Europe-Mapping-Lab.doc
2/27 Bellringer: What do you know about the U.S. government (branches, who has power, advantages/disadvantages)?
2/28 Bellringer: "Unique Nations" handout; glue into notebook.
3/7 & 3/8 Bellringer: For the following terms, state whether a country wants the statistic to be low or high, and explain why.
GDP per capita
Percent of people above the poverty line
Income per person
Crimes per capita
Life expectancy
Infant mortality
3/12 Bellringer: Write a paragraph about the United States that uses all 5 of your geoterms.
3/27 Bellringer: List THREE strategies you will use to study for your test on Friday and explain how each one will help you.
Mapping lab reflection: Write one thing that you learned about (part of) Monsoon Asia from each of the following maps: physical features, political boundaries, climate, vegetation, population density, economic activity.
Blocks 3 & 4 -- Notebook Check 4
2/8 Bellringer: Write the following questions in your notebook, leaving a few lines to write an answer.
View this website (press play to cycle through the images)
What do you see happening? (observation)
What do you think it is showing? (inference)
How might this lead to problems? (inference)
2/9 Bellringer: According to some sources, one and a half acres of rain forest trees are cut down each second.
Why do you think people do this? What is one benefit and one drawback of this?
2/22 & 2/23 Bellringer: Give three examples of physical geography and three examples of human geography for Latin America
2/23 & 2/24 Bellringer-Europe-Mapping-Lab.doc
2/27 & 2/28 Bellringer: What do you know about the U.S. government (branches, who has power, advantages/disadvantages)?
3/8 Bellringer: For the following terms, state whether a country wants the statistic to be low or high, and explain why.
GDP per capita
Percent of people above the poverty line
Income per person
Crimes per capita
Life expectancy
Infant mortality
3/12 Bellringer: Write a paragraph about the United States that includes all 3 of your geoterms (ethnic group, nationalism, nation-state).
3/26 & 3/27 Bellringer: List THREE strategies you will use to study for your test on Friday and explain how each one will help you.
Mapping lab reflection: Write one thing that you learned about (part of) Monsoon Asia from each of the following maps: physical features, political boundaries, climate, vegetation, population density, economic activity.
Really Old Bellringers
Blocks 1 & 2:
9/9 Bellringer: Arrange the following terms into pairs. For each pair, write a sentence about how they are related to each other.
Words: Bay Basin Delta Gulf Isthmus Peninsula Plateau Strait
9/12 Bellringer: How might mountains affect the climate around them?
9/13Bellringer: Write a paragraph response to the following statement: "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
9/21 & 9/22Bellringer: Pick 2 of the 3 questions below and answer them
By the end of class I should be able to:
1)Explain three specific ways that climate affects vegetation.
2) Explain how population density affects how people live
3) Explain the difference between land use and natural resources
10/3 Bellringer: What are the some of the problems of working in a group?
10/4 Bellringer: Why do good readerstakenotes?
10/10 Explain the following quote (in the context of research):
"Journal articles are Kings, Books are Presidents and Web Pages are Prime Ministers (although they could be con men)."
Explain how this might affect the way you research.
10/24Bellringer:Pick an event you personally experienced over fall break and make a connection between it and geography.(Remember, geography includes the 5 Big Ideas!)
10/31Bellringer: What has surprised you/what have you noticed so far about your personal consumption?
11/2 & 11/3 Bellringer: Give an example of each -- natural resource, industry, infrastructure, human resource
11/7 11/9 Bellringer:In 1900, only 1 in 10 Americans completed high school. Today, that number is over 8 out of 10. How do you think this affects the following areas?
income
productivity
GDP per capita
personal consumption
11/10 & 11/11 Bellringer: Create three word pairs from the following terms and explain how one affects the other: population growth, education, GDP per capita, natural resources, income, scarcity, hunger, infrastructure
11/15 Bellringer: Answer two of the following reflection questions about the Mystery Family Activity: #8, #10, #14, or #18
11/15 & 11/17 NAFTA bellringer (glued into notebook)
11/22 (B1) & 11/28 (B2) Bellringer: What are three ways that culture and economics are related?
11/29 (B1) Bellringer: What are three ways that the government helps supply people's needs in the U.S.A.?
12/9 Bellringer: List as many ways as possible to present information on your Hot Topics.
12/12 Bellringer: What are 3 groups of people affected by migration? What are 3 ways that a place might be affected by migration?
1/2 Choose something that you did over break and make three connections to something we learned about in the first half of the year. Ideas to think about include climate, vegetation, transportation, absolute/relative location, natural/capital/human resources, consumption, any of the 5 Big Ideas, and many more things.
1/17 Bellringer: Consider your Election Brochure, and answer TWO of the following reflection questions: #3, #17, #18, #22
1/18 Bellringer: Four each of the following social classes, list three characteristics that would help you identify someone who is a member of that class:
Upper class
Middle class
Working class (Working poor)
Lower Class
1/18 ReflectionLouisville-Neighborhoods-Reflection.docx
Really Old Bellringers
Blocks 3 & 4:
9/15Bellringer: Write a paragraph response to the following statement: "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
9/21 Bellringer: Pick 3 climates from your graphic organizer and explain why each climate supports the vegetation that is found there.
10/3 & 10/4 Bellringer: What are three differences between a map that shows physical geography and a map that shows human geography?
10/5 Bellringer: What are some of the problems of working in a group?
10/6 Bellringer: Why do good readerstakenotes?
10/10 & 10/11Bellringer: What is one advantage and one disadvantage of using each of these resources to reseach? a)magazine, b) book, c) website
10/24 & 10/25 Bellringer:Pick an event you personally experienced over fall break and make a connection between it and geography.(Remember, geography includes the 5 Big Ideas!)
11/2 Bellringer: Give an example of each -- natural resource, industry, infrastructure, human resource
11/9 Bellringer:In 1900, only 1 in 10 Americans completed high school. Today, that number is over 8 out of 10. How do you think this affects the following areas?
income
GDP per capita
personal consumption
11/10 & 11/11 Bellringer: Create three word pairs from the following terms and explain how one affects the other: population growth, education, GDP per capita, natural resources, income, scarcity, hunger, infrastructure
11/11 (block 4 only) Bellringer: What are 3 ways you will study for your test on Tuesday?
11/16 Bellringer: Answer two of the following reflection questions about the Mystery Family Activity: #8, #10, #14, or #18
11/17 Bellringer: On video games, glued in notebook. Videogame-Bellringer.doc
11/28 & 11/29 Bellringer (glued into notebooks): 3 types of jobs
12/1 Bellringer: What are three ways that culture and economics are related?
12/12 & 12/13 Bellringer: Give two examples of push factors and two examples of pull factors.
1/2 & 1/3 Choose something that you did over break and make three connections to something we learned about in the first half of the year. Ideas to think about include climate, vegetation, transportation, absolute/relative location, natural/capital/human resources, consumption, any of the 5 Big Ideas, and many more things.
1/9 (Block 3 only) Bellringer: Add three items to your T-chart about the Albas & the Romeros. Use page 141 to refresh your memory.
1/10 (Block 4) & 1/11 (Block 3) Bellringer: List at least five different characteristics that might affect someone's standard of living.
1/18 (Block 3 only) Bellringer: Write down 3 words to describe each of the neighborhoods that we have visited so far.
Neighborhood #1 -- Woman living in cardboard house
Neighborhood #2 -- Shoemaker
Neighborhood #3 -- Cinderblock house with tin roof
1/18 (Block 4) & 1/19 (Block 3) Bellringer: Four each of the following social classes, list three characteristics that would help you identify someone who is a member of that class:
Upper class
Middle class
Working class (Working poor)
Lower Class
1/18 reflection (block 4 only) Louisville-Neighborhoods-Reflection.docx
1/20 Bellringer (Block 3 only) What are you struggling with as you research the neighborhoods of Louisville?
