Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The 5 Themes - A Web Quest

You'll use the sites below to learn more about your environment, and other environments around the
world, using the 5 Themes of Geography.

Browse the following websites, then choose ONE that you will use to complete the items listed in your packet today.
Work through the questions in your packet. You will need to access the following website for Theme 5:
NOW, take a piece of white paper. Divide it into three columns and label them like the example to the right.

You will be researching ways we DEPEND on the environment, ways we CHANGE or MODIFY our environment, and ways we ADAPT our environment.

Now, go to one of the following newspaper websites:
Find articles and/or photos that show people interacting with their environments in each of the ways required by your table. Do the following for each:
  1. Write the name of the article.
  2. Write the name of the newspaper in which you found the article.
  3. Summarize the way in which the article shows that we DEPEND, MODIFY, or ADAPT to our environment.
  4. Draw a picture that shows the main idea of the article.