Spaceship earth: teaching and using the system of coordinates that we call latitude and longitude

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Teaching coordinates and Spaceship Earth

1. Color, cut and paste globes of lat. and long. from p. 5, textbook.
- Identify sample coordinates; see the terms parallel and meridian.
- Use the globes as part of your Spaceship Earth Teaching Project.

2. Great Circle route sketches, p 6.

3. What's distorted on a Mercator projection? Is a Robinson projection
more accurate than a Mercator? Why?

4. Making our own Atlantic Hurricane Tracking map
- refer to WG, p. 28 and p. 63. Identify -

Europe
Africa
S America
North Amer

Gulf Stream
North Atlantic Current
Canary Current
Equatorial Current (N Equatorial and S Equatorial)

Read about the Coriolis Effect on prevailing winds.



5 themes of geography . . .

Location of the people? Manhattan
Character of the place? Island at confluence of
Interaction of people and the place?
Movement of people, goods and ideas?
Comparison of places: how are they similar and how different?