Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Materials Needed: 1. Tape, Glue sticks, and map colors 2. Student Map The map is in a Publisher File and will automatically print the world map on 6 different sheets of paper. Students will have to tape the maps together. (This may take about 20 minutes or so for 9 th graders). 3. Student Packet each student will need the student resource packet since these items will be cut up, it is essential that you run the packets on only one side of the paper. Suggestion: Since not all of the cutting and gluing will happen on the same day you might want to give the students a manila folder to hold their remaining items. 4. Student quizzes 5. Power Point 6. Atlases or textbooks
Below is an example of what your map will look like when we are complete.
Physical Features
You will begin to fill out physical features on each continent according to the physical features page of the resource packet. Students
may need access to an atlas or textbook
Map Perspectives
Population
Population Pyramids
1. Cut out the population pyramids from your student packet and glue them on or near the appropriate country. You will have 10 of them.
2. Cut out the blocks of people and glue them in or near two highly populated countries.
3. Cut out the growth images and glue them on or near two fast growing countries.
Culture Draw a red heart on your map for each of the culture hearths on the map below.
Can you identify why each of these is a cultural hearth? Think history..
Religion where did it start and where has it spread? Complete the religion chart and glue it on the back of your map.
Use the symbols you created in your religion chart to mark the location of each religion on your map.
Using the migration map below draw arrows on your map to show the migration routes.
Net migrations Why do these different regions fall into these different categories?
Economics
Cut out the four pictures below and glue them next to the correct economic activity on the chart.
Using what you know about economic activities, determine which level of development is most likely to have this activity (more developed, newly industrialized, or less developed).
Glue the completed chart onto the back of your map as directed by your teacher.
Economics.
On your economics chart like the one below, write a definition for each form of economy. Determine an example for each form of economy.
Glue the chart onto the back of your map as directed by your teacher.
Government
Cut out the pictures below and glue them next to the corresponding form of government on the chart.
The classification is based on maximum and minimum temperatures and the temperature range as well as the total and seasonal distribution of precipitation.
Weather
1. Complete your chart using your knowledge and classroom resources.
2. Using the symbols you created, draw the symbols on the front of your own map in the appropriate places for each phenomena. 3. Cut out the chart and glue it to the back of your map.
Resources
1. Cut out these images. 2. Using classroom resources, look up the main locations for these resources and glue them in the proper regions on your world map.
Oil Coal
Lumber
Oil Reserves
Coal
Timber
Diamonds/Gemstones
Nuclear Energy
Conflicts
1. Cut out the caution symbols and glue them onto the following sites on your map to represent these areas of conflict. Ireland Bosnia Israel Rwanda Sudan South Africa Chechnya Uganda North Korea
Conflicts continued.
1. Determine which kinds of conflict apply to the countries using the boxes provided. 2. Cut out each box and glue them on the back of your map.
1. Cut out and glue the visuals into each conflict box that best fits. Make sure there are two pictures per conflict. 2. Cut out each conflict box and glue it to the back of your map as directed by your teacher.
Conflicts continued.
Top Ten
(most developed)
Norway Australia Netherlands United States New Zealand Canada Ireland Liechtenstein Germany Sweden
Bottom Ten
(least developed)
Mozambique Burundi Ethiopia Central African Republic Guinea-Bissau Chad Mali Burkina Faso Sierra Leone Niger
Conflicts
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