Format
1. Students introductions
2. Presentations from students
3. Question answer period
Objectives
Research, present and discuss geography to develop an appreciation of our world's surface and environment.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Geography Standard 1:
How to Use Maps and Other Geographic Representations, Tools, and Technologies to Acquire, Process, and Report Information From a Spatial Perspective
Geography Standard 10:
The Characteristics, Distribution, and Complexity of Earth’s Cultural Mosaics.
Geography Standard 6:
How Culture and Experience Influence People’s Perceptions of Places and Regions.
Geography Standard 14: How Human Actions Modify the Physical Environment
History Standard 1: Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450.
Standard 1C: Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450.
Standard 1D
The student understands the differences and similarities among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans who converged in the western hemisphere after 1492.
History Standard 2:
Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
How early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples.
Standard 2A
The student understands the stages of European oceanic and overland exploration, amid international rivalries, from the 9th to 17th centuries.