Unit 1 - Mapping and Geographic Skills

Lesson Details

1. Explore Mr. Durk's website (Complete Mr. Durk's Website Scavenger Hunt and receive a "Durk Dollar" tomorrow)

2. Mr. Durk's Website.

3. Class Rules and Expectations - "How we roll"

4. A Little Bit About Me

5. Class Scavenger Hunt & BINGO

6. CGC 1P Course Outline

7. engrade.ca

8. So...what do you know about Canada?

9. Photography Permission Form (permission to use photographs of students from field trips, class activities, etc for use on this website). Please return to Mr. Durk ASAP.

Today I am introducing an assignment that is on-going throughout the course. Each day for the first 10 minutes of class we will be watching the CBC online news broadcast (The National). The purpose of this is to stay informed on what is occurring in and around the world and within Canada. You will be required to make point form notes of the major news stories from each day, and be prepared to discuss some of these major stories (the ones that involve Canada's involvement in World events and issues) with the rest of the class.

2. Pick up textbooks from the JFR library (bring your student card with you in order to get a textbook out)

3 Take up Mr. Durk's Website Scavenger Hunt

4. Video: Alex Trebek quizzes people on the street about Geography.

- Be sure to carefully follow all of the mapping guidelines while producing and labelling any map.

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Activity: Your Mental Map of Canada (actual map of Canada)

4. Introduce Canada's Extremes Crossword Puzzle (students will have time to complete tomorrow in class)

The MacKenzie River in the North-west Territories

is the longest river in Canada and flows North-west

into the Beaufort Sea.

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Finish Canada's Extremes Crossword Puzzle (~ 30 minutes).

4. Mapping Requirements

5. Brainpop Video: Mapping Skills

6. Mapping Our World Assignment #1 - DUE: Day # 7

- Today you had lots of time to work on and maybe finish your Mapping Our World assignment. Please be sure to have this completed by Day #7.

- I will give you more time in class tomorrow to work on Latitude and Longitude: Pin-pointing places using a special grid system.

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Work Period: Mapping Our World Assignment #1 (evaluation rubric)

DUE: Day #7

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Brainpop Video: Latitude and Longitude

4. PPT: Latitude and Longitude (student worksheet)

5. Latitude and Longitude: Pin-pointing places using a special grid system.

Homework

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Collect Mapping Our World Assignment

4. Rapid Recap!...how much do you remember?

5. Continue working on and take up: Latitude and Longitude: Pin-pointing places using a special grid system.

6. The "Amazing Race Across Canada" (Answers)

Homework

MAPPING ASSIGNMENT IS DUE TODAY, PLEASE HAND IT IN TO MR. DURK AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Take up the Latitude and Longitude: Pin-pointing places using a special grid system. and the "Amazing Race Across Canada"

4. Brainpop Video: Timezones!

5. Video: Longitude and Timezones (4 min.)

6. PPT: Canada's Timezones (student worksheet)

7. Canada Timezone Map (copy onto blank map of Canada)

8. Timezones Calculations / Questions (Answers)

Homework

5. Take up textbook questions (map scales) from last day.

6. Scale Conversion Quiz (Answers)

7. PPT: The Compass Rose (student notes)

8. Introduce Assignment: My Compass Rose (evaluation rubric)

2. CBC Online News Journal

3. Continue working on "My Compass Rose Assignment" DUE: Day #2 of Unit 2.

4. Study and review your notes for Unit 1 Test tomorrow.

2. Unit 1 Test - Geographic Skills

TEST FORMAT - 74 marks

Part A: Introduction to Canada (10 marks)

Part B: Latitude and Longitude (8 marks)

Part C: The Compass Rose (8 marks)

Part D: True / False (8 marks)

Part E: Time Zone Calculations (18 marks)

Part F: Map Scales (10 marks)

Part G: Map of Canada (12 marks)