Test...oh yeah!!!

Students took a test over the 5 Themes of Geography & the location of some of the NBA teams.

NBA team schedules & 5 Themes of Geography

Students finished up creating their NBA class team schedules and were assigned a win-loss record at random. Afterwards, we finished discussing and reviewing the 5 themes of geography.

NBA arenas & divisions

Today we went over the suggestions for the different NBA arenas. We also divided up the NBA into 6 divisions. This will be useful for Monday when we create our class team schedule.

Where is your NBA team from?

Students decided as a class where they would like to place a new NBA team and what they should be called. They based their decision off of all the choices from their classmates.

NBA Commissioner for a day

After taking the quiz over the location of the NBA cities (latitude & longitude coordinates), students were able to look at a chart of the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. After deciding on 2 (regular classes) or 3 (Pre-AP classes) cities, students are to do a little research at home about their city selections. Students are to create team names/mascots from the cities that they've picked.

What do you think of when someone says New York?

Today, students finished up the class discussion over Location (1 of the 5 Themes of Geography). And we began talking about Place, like the question above: "What do you think of when you someone says New York?"

Where are the NBA teams?

Today, students began learning about the location of the NBA teams (which ties into our geography unit). Students were looking at Location today, tomorrow we should be able to move into Place.

5 Themes of Geography & Project info

Today we went over 1 of the 5 themes of geography as well as how to work on the Passport Project. Students will work on their Passport Project on Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday of this week. Students will find information regarding 7 of the 50 states and this will be a test/project grade.