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Geography and Travel - Dewey 910

Geography is the study of the earth interacting with man often interpreted from a spatial interpretation which affects the economy and emphasizes location, place, regions, movement, and relationships.

The Domain of Geography

	Location * exact location, relative location		Place * Natural features, human features
	Regions * physical land features including mountains, hills, lowlands, coastal plains, plains, river valleys, salt marshes, swamps, beaches AND human characteristics including culture		Movement * settlement patterns, trade, transportation of products and goods, movement of people [settling, vacationing], movement of ideas
	Relationships * People and the land. People and the ecosystem. Mining and the land. Refuges and saving animals. Regional changes over time.		Map study * outline maps, regions of the world by continents, annual precipitation, climate regions, topographic maps, water resources, distance between cities
	Climate zones * Frigid (tundra) , Temperate (grasslands, broadleaf deciduous), Tropical (broadleaf evergreen, rainforests, savannas)		Land and landforms * Continents, islands (atolls, coral reefs), elevations (mountains, plateaus, hills, slopes), depressions (canyons, chasms, gorges, gulches, valleys, karsts), plane regions (pampas, plains, steppes, tundras), coastal regions and shorelines)
	Vegetation regions * Forests, grasslands, deserts, swamps, marshes		Air Water * Atmosphere (precipitation; air temperature); oceans and seas, rivers; ponds; estuaries
	Hemispheres * Northern, southern, eastern, western		Map reading * Map scales, symbols, abbreviations (topographic map symbols, prime meridian line, latitude, longitude, census address, population, water symbols)
	MAPS * North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica		Books and resources to support the study of geography

THE DOMAIN OF GEOGRAPHY

* | United States * maps | map machine *)

LOCATION - place name, relative location (near what), mathematical location - weather, seasons, time zones

Exact Location - latitude and longitude *

Resource - * * Latitude and longitude of United States cities *
Resource - ** Latitude and longitude of any * city in the world
Lesson - 1 * - "Crack the Code" - latitude and longitude challenge
Lesson - 2 * - "Where Were the U. S. Presidents Born?"
Resource - Latitude - The Art and Science of Fifteenth Century Navigation *
Resource - Finding your way with a * map and compass
Resource - Distance between * two cities on the globe
Resource - Find your census address * in the United States

Relative Location - location in relationship to something else (near, between, north of)
PLACE - regions characterized by business and economy, alliances and allies
- Shared Resource - Creating a Massachusetts artifact * box
- Natural features - trees, soil, plant and animal life *, natural resources, mountains, lakes, rivers 1 * 2 *, coastlines, beaches, peninsula, islands, climate, weather, seasons, elevation, rainfall, natural and archaeological wonders, dinosaurs
  - Shared Resource - Reading * thematic books and creating student-created slave * narratives based on their study of 1800s * abolitionism, fugitive slaves, and the Underground Railroad resources
- Human features - churches, barns, city buildings, homes, malls, monuments, forts, public structures, public and private lands
  - Shared Resource - Reading *, creating *, and sharing *, regional tall tales of the United States
REGIONS - physical land features (mountains, hills, lowlands, uplands, coastal plains, plains, river valleys, forests, salt marshes, swamps, beaches) and human characteristics or attributes including culture
- Shared Resource - Creating a Massachusetts artifact * box
MOVEMENT - settlement patterns; trade, transportation of products and goods, movement of people (settling, vacationing) , movement of ideas
- Shared Resource - Reading about the diverse cultures of the United States including Native Americans in books * and their timeline *; African-Americans in books * and in their timeline *; Asians in books * including the Japanese-Americans * during World War II. Observe the people of the 1600s * and 1700s * "in their own words" * while following the events in the timelines of the early 1700s *, the late 1700s *, the early 1800s * , the late 1800s *, the early 1900s *, the late 1900s * as varied immigrants * continued to come to the United States and recount their dreams, memories, and contributions.
RELATIONSHIPS - How do people interact with the land? How do people affect the ecosystems by cutting down trees and building homes and bridges. How does building dams and reservoirs affect the environment? How does mining affect the land and air in the environment with industrial waste and gases? How does the saving of public land and creation of wildlife refuges protect the area? [oceans - waterpower, food, seaports, shipbuilding] How does the region look over time (changes in life forms from prehistoric time; changes in climate with glaciers creates topographic features
Desert ecosystem - Shared Resource - classroom study including reading fiction ("Holes" by Louis Sachar) and non-fiction children's books and poetry * about the desert [strategy: twin texts and literature circles]
Rainforest ecosystem - Shared Resource - children's bibliography * and student-created acrostics *
Shared Resource - Songs * of the regions and people of the United States
Shared Resource - Reading * thematic books and creating student-created slave narratives * based on their study of 1800s * abolitionism, fugitive slaves, and the Underground Railroad resources

What to study for geography?

Resource - Geography standards * include the study of maps, patterns of human settlement
Resource - Intepretation * of what geography targets

Resource - National Geography Content Standards * from ERIC

The Study of Teaching Maps

Resource - Outline maps of the world *
Resource - Regions * of the world by continents
Resource - Climate regions * of the world using Koppen's Climate Classification
Resource - Annual animated * precipitation in the world
Resource - Annual animated * air temperature in the world
Resource - Countries * of the world
Resource - Topographic maps * of the United States and how to read them (purchasing *)
Resource - Water resources * of the United States

Resource - Distance between two cities * on the globe

Areas, regions, places in general [World Climate Classifications *] (910.1)

Frigid Zones (910.11)

Tundra - arctic biome *

Temperate Zones (910.12)

Temperate grasslands *
Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous *
Temperate grasslands *

Torrid (Tropics) Zones (910.13)

Tropical Broadleaf Evergreen Forest - Rainforest *
Tropical - Rainforest * biomes (visual)
Tropical Savanna *

Land and Landforms (910.14)

Continents (Continental shelves) (910.141)

Resource - Continental shelf of the ocean floor diagram *
Resource - Countries * of the world
Resource - North America and South America - as a region *
Resource - Europe - as a region *
Resource - Asia - as a region *
Resource - Africa - as a region *
Resource - Australia and the Pacific - as a region *

Islands (atolls, coral reefs) (910.142)

Islands of the world * - find any island by ocean location or alphabetic name

Coral Reefs

Resource -Coral reef life * and images *

Elevations (mountains, plateaus, hills, slopes) [images *] (910.143)
Depressions/Openings (canyons, chasms, gorges, gulches, ravines, valleys, caves, karsts )(910.144)
Plane regions (pampas, plains, steppes, tundras)(910.145)

Pampas

Resource - Pampas *

Tundras

Resource - Tundras *
Resource - How is the tundra * like a desert? (visual)

Coastal regions and shorelines (beaches **, deltas) (910.146)
Soil [images *] (910.148)

Regions by vegetation [World Climate Classifications *] (910.15)

Forests (910.152)

Resource - Boreal forest - Taiga biome *
Resource - Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous - biome *
Resource - Deciduous Forest - biome * (visual)
Resource - Tropical Broadleaf Evergreen Forest - Rainforest *

Grasslands (910.153)

Resource - Grasslands * biome (visual)
Resource - Temperate * grasslands
Resource - Tropical Savanna *
Resource - Savanna * biomes (visual)

Deserts (910.154)

Resource - Desert scrub biome *
Resource - North American deserts *
Resource - Desert biome *
Resource - How is the tundra * like a desert? (visual)

Swamps

Resource - Map of Crocodile Locations *

Marshes

Resource - salt marshes *

Air Water (910.16)

Atmosphere (910.161)

Resource - Annual animated * precipitation in the world
Resource - Annual animated * air temperature in the world
Resource - United States water resource * conditions - rainfall and drought
Resource - Climate regions * of the world using Koppen's Climate Classification

Oceans and Seas (910.162)

Floors of the ocean

Resource - Types of ocean regions *
Resource - Ocean life *
Resource - Physical features * of oceans
Resource - Profiles * of the oceans - visual

Atlantic Ocean (910.163)

Resource - Facts about and location of * the Atlantic Ocean (includes visual)
Resource - The Atlantic Ocean facts * and image

Arctic Ocean (910.1632)

Resource - Facts * about the Arctic Ocean

Pacific Ocean (910.164)

Resource - Facts * about the Pacific Ocean

Indian Ocean (910.165)

Resource - Facts * about the Indian Ocean

Antarctic Ocean (910.167)

Rivers, ponds, estuaries, lakes * (910.162)

Resource - estuaries *

Hemispheres (Dewey 910.181)

Eastern Hemisphere (910.1811)

Resource - In which hemisphere did various foods originate *? (Food Museum)

Western Hemisphere (910.1812)

Resource - In which hemisphere did various foods originate *? (Food Museum)

Northern Hemisphere (910.1813)
Southern Hemisphere (910.1814)

Historical Geography - Dewey 911

Graphic Representations of the Earth
and extra terrestrial places - Dewey 912

MAP READING (912.014)

Map Scales, Symbols, Abbreviations (912.0148)

Calendars *
Resource - Create * your own online map
Resource - Topographic map symbols * of the United States
Resource - Latitude and longitude *

Resource - Prime meridian line * at Greenwich
Resource - * * Latitude and longitude of United States cities *
Resource - ** Latitude and longitude of any city * in the world
Lesson - 1 * - "Crack the Code" - latitude and longitude challenge
Resource - Outline maps of the world *
Lesson - 2 * - "Where Were the U. S. Presidents Born?"
Resource - Latitude - The Art and Science of Fifteenth Century Navigation *
Resource - Finding your way with a map and compass *
Resource - Distance between two cities * on the globe
Resource - Find your census address * in the United States
Resource - U.S. Gazetteer - Search for a place using the city and state name *
Resource - Topographic Maps of the United States *
Resource - Water symbols *
Resource - United States population * - includes latitude and longitude tool

SPECIFIC CONTINENTS, COUNTRIES, LOCALITIES, LAND ATLASES (912.3-912.9)

Maps of EUROPE (Dewey 914)
Maps of ASIA * (Dewey 915)

Maps * of China
A map * of Thailand
Map of Singapore * (Malaysia)

Maps of AFRICA (Dewey 916)

Map * of Tunisia
Map * Libya
Map * of Egypt
Map * of Sudan
Map * of Eritrea
Map * of Ethiopia
Maps of Northwest Africa Coast

Map * of Morocco
Map * of Western Sahara
Map of the Canary Islands

Map * of Algeria
Maps of West Africa and Offshore

Map * of Mauritania
Map * of Mali
Map * of Niger
Map * of Burkina Faso
Map * of Senegal
Map * of Sierra Leone
Map * of Gambia
Map * of Guinea
Map * of Guinea Bissau
Map * of Cape Verde Islands
Map * of Liberia
Map * of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
Map * of Ghana
Map * of Togo
Map * of Benin
Map * of Nigeria

Maps of Central Africa and offshore

Map * of Cameroon
Map * of Sao Tome
Map * of Equatorial Guinea
Map * of Gabon
Map * of the Republic of the Congo
Map * of Angola
Map * of Chad
Map * of Central Africa
Map * of Zaire
Map * of Rwanda and Burundi
Map * of Uganda
Map * of Kenya
Map * of Djibouti
Map * of Somalia
Map * of Tanzania
Map * of Mozambique

Maps of Southern Africa

Map * of South Africa
Map * of Botswana
Map * of Swaziland
Map * of Lesotho
Map * of Namibia
Map * of Zimbabwe
Map * of Zambia
Map * of Malawi

Maps of the South Indian Ocean

Map * of Madagascar
Map * of Comoros
Map * of Seychelles
Map * of Reunion
Map * of Mauritius

Maps of MIDDLE AMERICA (Dewey 917)
Maps of NORTH AMERICA (Dewey 917)

Maps of Canada
Maps of the United States (Dewey 917)

Maps anywhere in the United States

Maps of SOUTH AMERICA (Dewey 918)
Other Areas (Dewey 919)

Using games with geography

Game - GeoNet * - an online geography trivia game

Geography of & travel in ancient world * - Dewey 913
Overall Resources

Egyptology * resources
Seven Wonders of the World *
Discovering Ancient Egypt * (see: 962.1)(see: 916.21)
Temple of Luxor * on the Nile River in Egypt (see: 962.1)(see: 916.21)
Flags of the world's nations

Educator is the recipient of the Miss Rumphius Award *

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