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Applied Ninth Grade Social Studies

This course and this wiki are broken into seven units (and current events). I will also place dates beside the units as we do them. That way you will know what we are covering and when.

The units are:

General Geography, Unit #1 August-September

USA Unit #2

Geographic Features, Unit #3

The Five Themes of Geography, Unit #4

GRASPS, Unit #5

Asia, Unit #6

Great Barrier Reef #7

Poverty, Unit #8

Each Unit will have  Links to helpful web sites , papers you might get in class , and end of the unit assessment (except in the case of tests which are not on the wiki.


 * General Geography, Unit 1

Links to helpful web sites

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[|Maps, compasses and GPS]

[|National Geographic Geoliteracy]

[|Geography Resources]

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px;">[|Garmin What is a GPS]

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px;">[|Globe with areas mapped out]

[|screen shots]

[|Types of maps]

[|images for types of maps]

[]

[|Longitude and Latitude Review]



[|Practice with Latitude and Longitude] <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 36px;">Papers you might get in class

Class notes 9-9 and 9-10









End of Unit Assessment is a test. Actually it was a series of quizzes which count as a test!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">USA UNIT Starting October 1st!

[|Interactive Map of the USA] [|More interactive maps of USA] [|Still more maps] Videos you might see in class [|US Geography Introduction] [|Landforms] [|Landforms powerpoint] [|State Capitals Game] [|All about Hawaii] [|Hidden Alaska] [|Visit Montana] [|Glacier National Park Montana] [|Wyoming video] [|Colorado Video] [|Movie about Georgia] [|New Orleans] [|Tourism money in New Orleans] [|Memphis Tennessee] [|Nashville Tennessee] [|Gibson Guitar Factory Nashville] [|Destination Arizona] [|Movie about Seattle] [|Movie on Arizona] [|New Mexico] [|Texas]

_Papers you might get in class

USA TRIP LESSON

COUNTRIES PROJECT



Five Themes Unit

The Spanish Speaking Countries  you will need the following paper and map to complete this assignment.
 * This unit starts after the December/January Break on January 6th.

Mapping South America: [|Link to lesson plan/instructions]



Flags of Latin America: [|Lesson/instructions for Flags of Latin America]

Slide show of Venezuela is too large to upload to this site. Sorry!



Some things that might be helpful for this project! [|map of Spanish Speaking Countries] [|2nd map of Spanish Speaking Countries] [|Regions of Spain...map and information]

South American Maps Assignments

Olympics Sochi Russia Videos [|History of Olympics 1968-2008] [|Black Power Salute in Mexico City] [|Most Inspirational Olympic Moments] [|Top Olympic Moments Ever] [|Munich Olympics Video]

Other Information [|List of Countries Where Games Have Been Held] [|Meaning of Olympic Rings] [|Athlete information]

[|Map of Participating Countries]


 * Use these with the form I passed out which is right here! **

Source # 1 - __ http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/world/2014-sochi-winter-olympics-fast-facts/ __

Source # 2 - __ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/12/sochi-2014-an-olympic-preview/100422/#img16 __

Source # 3 - __ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sochi-olympics-boycott __

In case you want it for anything, here is the video we watched: __ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/winter-olympics-2014-should-americans-go-to-sochi/ __

And, just for fun: __ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/26/sports/olympics/20100226-olysymphony.html?hp&_r=1& __

Papers you might get in class Opening assignment



Project





Reflections on Sochi

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27px;">MAPS OF EUROPE Western Europe



NORTHERN EUROPE

CENTRAL EUROPE

Papers for March 17 and 18

Grasps Assessment

__ The Lorax reading from You Tube: [] __



__ Used in class 3-31 and 4-1 __

What the Assessment consists of and the actual assignment!



Additional links/articles for discussing some of the issues that were covered in the projects! [|Bullying Article/links] [|Signs of Bullying]

[|What is deforestation?] [|Deforestation article]

[|How to End World Hunger....sponsored] [|World Hunger Article] [|Ten Ways to End World Hunger]

[|Poverty in Maine] [|Maine's poverty rate]