EDEE 280 Midterm: Midterm Notes
17 Mar 2013
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Unit 1: the nuts and bolts of social studies midterm notes. Historian"s hurdles: distance between past and present, what happened vs. today, choices how to make the past coherent interpretive lenses worldview, what stance they will take. Make sense of time & give meaning to oneself/family/community/society/world. Farris (2012) geography is the study of the earth, including its features and the distribution of its human inhabitants and other life (physical vs. human geography) 5 geographical themes location: place unique characteristics, movement relationship with places regions characteristics based on feature. Make sense of space/development & to navigate/control/adapt to environment for survival. Why teach geography: parker (2012): mr. help. Humans live in different areas (farms, cities) but they still interact through travel, communication, products regions how they form and change landscapes, landforms. Everywhere on earth has + and for human settlement in that area location position on earth"s surface. Absolute & relative location describe people & places.
