Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Types of maps or geographic resources—reference, thematic, planimetric, topographic, globe and map projections, aerial photographs, satellite images.
- The difference between aerial photography and satellite images and their properties for interpreting spatial patterns.
- The uses of GIS in portraying geographic or spatial patterns and in answering geographic questions.
- The uses of mapping technology to trace diseases through a population geographic trade patterns, governmental alliances, and immigration patterns, mental maps, cultures, urban land-use patterns, distribution and linkages of cities, migration patterns, population-density patterns, spread (diffusion) of culture traits, spread (diffusion) of contagious.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Read, analyze and interpret maps, aerial photography, satellite images, and other types of mapping technology.
- Use mental maps.
- Use GPS for locations.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Maps portray human and physical geographic patterns, understand the use of GPS and GIS in explaining geographic patterns, that mental maps are important in understanding cultural perceptions and the organization of cultural landscapes.
Vocabulary
- spatial thinking
- spatial relationships
- spatial perspective
- spatial patterns
- spatial models
- geospatial technologies
