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?"