Week 4--due on Friday, September 6th

Hello Everyone,

Great job with our first wave of Africa presentations this week! 👏🎉 Ivey, Caroline, Lila, and David kicked us off with intriguing and well planned presentations.  Next week, we'll have the second wave of remaining presentations.  I look forward to them.

The work this week is straightforward.

1) Prepare for your Africa presentation if you have yet to present (eight of you).

2) Complete all of the Africa pages I handed out in class.  Many of these are quick puzzles and ways to jog your memory or explore basic map work. They should just jog your memory and shouldn't take long.

3) Watch the following video and consider the following map and graphs.

Human Geography: Cultural Regions (12 minutes)
from this video define the following terms in your notes: cultural group, ethnic group, ethnocentrism, cultural region, subculture and counterculture.  What are some traits by which we can categorize culture?

What can you infer about internet usage from this map with regard to Africa?
Title: Internet users in 2015 as a percentage of a country's population
Source:  International Telecommunications Union

Hit play on this interactive graph and watch how sub-Saharan Africa compares to other regions with regard to the number of  children per family and life expectancy from the 1960's to 2015.  What can you infer? Write down a sentence about your inference.

Hit play at this interactive graph, but this time you are following the region of North Africa and the Middle East.  Compare it to the sub-Saharan dot and other countries.  Again, what can you infer?  Write down a sentence with your inference.

Finally,  hit play on this North America version of this graph.  What do you notice in comparison to the others? Write down a sentence with your inference.

3) For those behind on these pages, complete all of the Africa pages I have provided thus far.  Do some research, explore a bit when you define terms and look up items.  You will get out of this activity exactly what you are willing to put into it.  Be curious.  Let the material inspire questions in you; remember to let it "breathe." 😉 

4) Make time to master the 54 countries of Africa and land features on the Sheppard Software site if you have not already.   You should be able to find this link by yourself by now. A quiz will be coming up on 9/11.