Geography

 

 

We talked about the five themes of geography today in class and did a few activities with them. We discussed how to take an activity and incorporate the five themes of geography: location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction. The first activity we did was to bring in a picture of our neighborhood. We taped all of them to the wall and discussed the similarities and differences, plus what we could do with it in the classroom.

 

 

This is the collection of all of our neighborhoods. Some city, some country, and some student housing.

 



After we discussed our neighborhoods, we wrote a cinquain poem about our neighborhoods. We wrote them on colored paper, backed them on black paper and hung them with string to the ceiling.

 

 

 

 

The next activity we did was to decipher these pictures to determine the location they were talking about.



 

For example, this one is Tokyo.

 



We then chose our own locations and created our own puzzles for our classmates to decipher. See if you can decipher our puzzles! They're all for locations in states in the United States.