This week, students will be voting on a winner for our Australia Sketch Map Contest. We will also wrap up our study of this region. While the first few units have been short, the Australia test will be our first large test. Please help your child prepare.
As we travel on to Asia, Africa, and North America, our focus will shift to include much more ancient history.
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Thanks to one of our fabulous middle school parents, Portland Middle School will be offering a Geography Club. Students will partake in games, computers, fun and competition. The club meets on Thursdays from 2:30-3:30 and will host a National Geographic Bee in December.
The parent sponsor is a former teacher who formerly lived and taught in a small village in Alaska. Encourage your young geographer to check it out. (Open to grades Our studies have blown us across the sea to Australia and the Pacific Islands. Students will be able to identify various regions within Australia and the Pacific Islands, identify unique plant and animal life, and explain human-environment interactions by the end of the unit. They should also know characteristics of lands in the Southern Hemisphere. (You can see that we are focusing on Regions - one of the Five Themes of Geography.) In addition, students will further refine their spatial and mapping skills by making sketch maps of this region.
This cold snap is fitting weather for a unit on Antarctica. The results for the Five Themes of Geography test are out. Students will be getting their results this week. We will continue to reinforce the Five Themes as we move forward. In addition, we will be wrapping up our unit on Antarctica and moving on to the study of Australia. While these early units are short, students should plan on studying Asia, Africa, and the U.S. and Canada in considerable depth.
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