Course Outline
Rules and Routines
Why Study Natural Disasters?
What is Geography?
The Concepts of Geographic Thinking
Understanding Spatial Significance
What are Patterns and Trends?
How can Geographers describe and explain them?
What is an interrelationship?
How do Geographers describe and explain them?
Can you discover geographic interrelationships?
What is a perspective? How can I identify my own perspective?
What are the 4 geographic perspectives?
What is difference between fact and opinion?
Introduce Assignment #1 --Hazard Mapping with ArcGISonline
What are Geo-technologies?
How do Geographers use Geo-technologies to study people and the earth?
Your Cell Phone is a Snitch! Perspectives on the privacy of your cell phone locational data
Open the each dataset below and follow activity instructions.