Geography

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1 Geography

2 REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW. Use the first few minutes of class to look at your notes from yesterday. Highlight, circle, underline the important terms and definitions. Create questions on the left for the notes you wrote down yesterday.

3 REMINDER: Please be Safe, Respectful and Productive. Please put your cell phones and electronic devices away and do not use them during class time.

4 TODAY S ATTENDANCE QUESTION: What makes a neighborhood a safe neighborhood?

5 THE PLAN FOR TODAY: Finish discussing a history of geography. Discuss some of the more common tools of analysis used by geographers.

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7 Part 2: A short history of geography. The theory of environmental determinism wanted to show how local conditions like climate, topography and soil characteristics were key determinants or causes in the evolution of local or regional cultural practices.

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9 Part 2: A short history of geography. But there was a big problem with this theory.

10 THE DAILY THINK/WRITE: What would you say is a feature of the people of Prosser because it is a small town?

11 Part 2: A short history of geography. The problem with this theory was that the theorists often found their culture to be the best and their environment to be ideal.

12 Part 2: A short history of geography. For example, Ellen Churchill Semple, an environmental determinist, wrote Among mountain as among desert peoples, robbery tends to become a virtue; environment dictates their ethical code.

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14 Part 2: A short history of geography. In the 20 th century, geographers began rejecting environmental determinism.

15 Part 2: A short history of geography. They did this because the theory could not be supported by data, and because it was being used to support racism.

16 Part 2: A short history of geography. So, geographers then turned back to descriptive geography in the first half of the 20 th century.

17 Part 2: A short history of geography. In the 1960s, the invention of satellites and computers added a quantitative dimension to geography.

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19 Part 2: A short history of geography. Geographers now had a tool to show them what the earth really looked like and to crunch vast amounts of data.

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21 THE DAILY THINK/WRITE: Computers can process a lot of information. But what would be the problems with letting the computers make the conclusions from that information?

22 Part 2: A short history of geography. In the 1970s, particularly in the US and the UK, geographers also started to study the discipline itself with a critical point of view.

23 Part 2: A short history of geography. Critical geographers study how and why societies and individuals believe what they do.

24 Part 2: A short history of geography. Today, the discipline of geography offers a number of tools to help us understand the world.

25 PART 3: A GEOGRAPHER S TOOLS - LANDSCAPE LITERACY. Geography gives you the tools to look at your surroundings and analyze them. The word landscape refers to all the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

26 PART 3: A GEOGRAPHER S TOOLS - LANDSCAPE LITERACY. Landscape Literacy refers to the ability to identify and understand messages inscribed in the environment.

27 PART 3: A GEOGRAPHER S TOOLS - LANDSCAPE LITERACY. You already know how to do some of this. Think about what you ve been told about safe and unsafe neighborhoods.

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32 PART 3: A GEOGRAPHER S TOOLS - LANDSCAPE LITERACY. Pay attention to the everyday details.

33 PART 3: A GEOGRAPHER S TOOLS - LANDSCAPE LITERACY. Ordinary, everyday landscapes are referred to as vernacular landscapes.

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