Get Lost in Mapping:

Find Your Way in Europe
The Hawaii Geographic Alliance and the National Geographic Society invite you to join us in celebrating Geography Awareness Week.
November 15-21, 2009

Leeward Community College Fair

Iroquois Point Elementary: Family Geography Night

Join Hawaii Geographic Alliance FREE	Hawaii Geography Standards	Mapping Skills	Getting to Know Europe	Fine Arts
HGA Music by Benny Uyetake	Online Resources	Literature Connection	Celebrate Europe	Event Report

GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS:

Hawaii's geography standard is: Standards 7: Geography: World in Spatial Terms -Use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments and understand the nature and interaction of geographic regions and societies around the world.

To see the grade level benchmarks for geography and the other strands in the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards for Social Studies Grades K-12, please go to the Hawaii DOE website: http://standardstoolkit.k12.hi.us/index.html

Become a member of the Hawaii Geographic Alliance. It’s FREE. The website is listed as Hawaii Geographic. Register at: http://www.ngsednet.org/hawaii

Join My Wonderful World (free). There are resources (including interactive games) for students, parents, and teachers.
Go to: http://www.mywonderfulworld.org

“Get Lost in Mapping: Find Your Way in Europe”

MAPPING SKILLS

To learn about different kinds of maps, go to: All Kinds of Maps (zip file) – Learn about the different kinds of maps (political vs. physical; reference maps vs. thematic maps). Postcard format(zip file)

Creating the Base Map Build your Geography Action! Europe Map by using the projector map or tile map found in the “Mapping Europe” Toolkit. (It is downloadable from NGS)

The lessons in the “Mapping Europe” Toolkit take you and your students through several layers of mapping. Students will become familiar with the countries in Europe.

Activities for the different grade level clusters can be found in the “Mapping Europe” Toolkit.

K-1: Language of Location

2-3: Europe’s Symbols, Lines and Directions

4-5: Mapping Mammals and Protected Areas

6-8: Tourism Across Europe

9-12: Powerful Causes and Effects

GETTING TO KNOW EUROPE

Observations Through the Use of Photographs, Postcards, Drawings, and Other Media

Making observations is one of the geographer’s tools. Use your observation skills in this activity. Throughout the activity, students might generate questions about the physical and cultural characteristics of the various countries in Europe. For example, What are the physical features in Europe? What are the human activities going on in Europe? Where are the major cities and why are they there? How do the countries compare in population? How do people make a living? What are some of the environmental issues? What languages are spoken? Are borders a problem? Why or why not? Where are the agricultural regions and why are they there?

Observe through use of photographs, postcards, drawings, music, and text (books, articles, short stories) (in small groups) Using postcards and/or pictures is a visual way to give students images of the various countries in Europe. You might also want to use the postcards/pictures to discuss the physical and human characteristics of Europe. Sample postcard (zip file)

• Speculate on location in Europe (if not told)
• Use worksheet to note observations in photographs, elements of the physical landscape, and elements of the cultural landscape. What clues help you to identify the location of the photographs?
• Make inferences about the location, place and people
• Write a generalization about your observations. Be ready to share.

Get to the Beat with Mapping and Europe.

Learn and sing songs written and composed by Benny Uyetake, teacher at Kalama Middle School.

Literature Connection

Literature Collection from Hawaii Geographic Alliance. (or PDF)

Titles of Books from the Pizza Hut Collection ages ago.

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Page 2

Suggested Ideas:

• Compare and contrast current events to Hawaii.
• Read informational text about the different cultures in Europe. Compare and contrast cultures, or write a reflection of what was read.
• Read what’s happening in Europe. Research to find possible answers to your questions. Write about Europe (poetry, essay, photo essay, etc.) You may use “The Important Book” as a model for writing a poem about Europe or a specific country in Europe. Or, share various ABC books (example: A to Z of Russia). Students can use their research information to create their own ABC book.

Online Resources(link just to the online resources)

·      World Atlas – Political or physical maps of Europe -http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/eu.htm

· Can you name the countries of Europe? (Game) http://www.sporcle.com/games/europe.php

· All about Europe (Games) http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/European_Geography_Mac.htm

· The Europe Quiz http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/euroquiz.html

· Europe Trivia - http://www.triviaplaza.com/trivia.php?quiz=geography-europe

· Europe Quiz Games - http://www.syvum.com/quiz/europe/

· Interactive Maps of Europe -http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm

·   Map Projections – http://www.nationalgeographic.com/2000/projections

·     Map Projections - http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html

·      Map Projections Posters - http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.html

·      World Mapper - http://www.worldmapper.org/

·      The Library of Congress Geography and Maps - http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/

·      Human Footprint - http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/human-footprint/

·      Social, Economic, and Environmental Earth Trends - http://earthtrends.wri.org/

·      Population Reference Bureau - http://www.prb.org/datafinder.aspx

·      NGS Website - http://nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/

For more information, go to:
http://ngsednet.org/ga Online Community will give educators a vast collection or resources to enhance students' understanding and appreciation of Europe.

FINE ARTS

Create Art Products (Replicas) from Europe
(i.e., pottery, jewelry, tapestries, masks, musical instruments, and baskets) and/or share artifacts from Europe.
Art-Craft Link

Compare and Contrast Architectural Designs in Cities in Europe

For example, compare and contrast the Eiffel Tower located in Paris, France with the Stonehenge in England, United Kingdom. For a lesson on the two ancient cities, go to: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/04/g912/twocitiesinca.html

Listen to music from Different Countries in Europe

What generalizations can you make about the music? Discuss, compare and contrast the type of instruments used. For an online website, go to:http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/region/content.region/europe_3/en

CELEBRATE EUROPE

Encourage Students to Wear a T-shirt that Relates to the Theme

Have the students explain why they selected that particular T-shirt and how it relates to the GAW theme.
For a lesson, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/hga/GAW97/tshirt.html

Share Europe

For example, share games played in the different countries, food eaten, artifacts that reflect the various countries, traditional clothing, and sports played.

OTHER GAW SONGS

Includes GAW songs from 1996.

MegaMaps (Large maps) link

GAW REPORT

We would love to hear from you and your students. Use the attached Report Form / or PDF to let us know about your classroom activities and celebrations. If you have created a GAW site on your school's website that HGA can link to, please contact HGA. Deadline for sending in the reports: December 13, 2009.

The Hawaii Geographic Alliance
UH Manoa, Dept. of Geography,
2424 Maile Way, Saunders 408,
Honolulu, HI 96822.

All questions should be sent to: uhgeohga@hawaii.edu

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