To demonstrate your learning of this geography unit, you will explore regions of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Background Information:
It’s been one year since the start of the apocalypse. Life As We Knew It is gone. After an asteroid hit the moon, knocking it into a closer orbit, all sorts of natural disasters brought the world to a halt. With limited resources, you have struggled to survive; you got lucky and happened to be in one of lesser affected cities; however, things are becoming worse. You are faced with a life or death choice – to stay in your current location or join a caravan traveling to one of the other surviving locations. Your choice and your knowledge of geography decide whether you live through this – or not.
Directions:
Your job is to gather information on your “current” location, as a geographer would, using the 5 THEMES. You are also going to do the same for an alternative location. The purpose is to determine whether or not your current location is better suited to help you survive the apocalypse, or if you need to join the traveling caravan and relocate to the alternative location. In the end, your goal is for mankind to rebuild the surviving locations into a once-again sustainable cities.
You’ll want to find the absolute and relative location, explore the surrounding areas to see what similar characteristics they share, discover what the physical and human characteristics are like there, study the adaptations that people have made to this environment, and examine what factors have caused people and goods to move in and out of this location.
You will complete this job with a fellow geographer and present your findings to other geographers in the field. Your information should be complied into a Google slide show with visual aids to help show what your “place was like,” and could be again someday.
Click on the links below for more information about this project-based assessment.
Background Information:
It’s been one year since the start of the apocalypse. Life As We Knew It is gone. After an asteroid hit the moon, knocking it into a closer orbit, all sorts of natural disasters brought the world to a halt. With limited resources, you have struggled to survive; you got lucky and happened to be in one of lesser affected cities; however, things are becoming worse. You are faced with a life or death choice – to stay in your current location or join a caravan traveling to one of the other surviving locations. Your choice and your knowledge of geography decide whether you live through this – or not.
Directions:
Your job is to gather information on your “current” location, as a geographer would, using the 5 THEMES. You are also going to do the same for an alternative location. The purpose is to determine whether or not your current location is better suited to help you survive the apocalypse, or if you need to join the traveling caravan and relocate to the alternative location. In the end, your goal is for mankind to rebuild the surviving locations into a once-again sustainable cities.
You’ll want to find the absolute and relative location, explore the surrounding areas to see what similar characteristics they share, discover what the physical and human characteristics are like there, study the adaptations that people have made to this environment, and examine what factors have caused people and goods to move in and out of this location.
You will complete this job with a fellow geographer and present your findings to other geographers in the field. Your information should be complied into a Google slide show with visual aids to help show what your “place was like,” and could be again someday.
Click on the links below for more information about this project-based assessment.