Debate - Week 2

I am pretty impressed with this process after just one week of map copying. Each student whipped out a decent version of Canada within about 10 minutes, all while chatting about provinces/territories that they'd only first heard of a week ago.

This will be another week of copying Canada/Greenland, adding in the list of features found in the back of your Challenge A guide in the Debate section. Thankfully there are only a handful of rivers (those are difficult little lines to remember).

Next week the students will get a blank paper and will be drawing Canada from memory.

Remember:

Do your best. Copy maps every day. Enjoy the process :).

Don't forget your geography dictionary. See your guide for the terms to add this week.  Geography Terms (1st 6 weeks)

Drill those locations! Canada Geography

Debate - Week 1

Great job copying those maps today! Remember, strive for an hour a day working on this strand! You will be amazed at what can be accomplished. Get cozy with your guide - it will tell you what you need to do. But these first few weeks I'll write the general expectations here as well with some explanations! I am getting these assignments from week 2 in your challenge guides, because these are the tasks that should be completed this week to be ready for our community day on week 2.

- Draw and label the provinces, territories, and capitals of Canada from the Cartography book. Remember to look for significant shapes and reference points to guide your copying. You will find a list of the locations covered each week in the back of your guide starting on page 187. Don't get bogged down trying to be perfect - do your best and then cop another map tomorrow!

- Memorize the provinces, territories, and capitals of Canada. Yes, that is right. Not only do you draw them, but you will work on memorizing them! This is the grammar you will be memorizing for this strand. How to memorize, you ask? Some ideas:

• Flashcards
• Quizlet.com (set up an account and search 'challenge a geography', and presto, options like this come up: Challenge A Geography - Canada)
• Chant aloud for all to hear (or maybe in the yard if you are bugging your family)

- Read about Canada and Greenland in your Cartography book. This is easy and interesting and fun.

- Define the terms listed in your guide (archipelago, arm, etc.). You will need to set up a geography dictionary OR flashcards for this assignment. It's easy so don't stress! Geography dictionary is a basic spiral notebook with A, B, C written every 5-6 pages, with terms added as we go. Get fancy and add some sticky tabs! Working with one term at a time, look the word up in the dictionary (the back of your guide also has a glossary of terms in the debate section) and write the definition in your book or on your notecard, making sure to include a couple of examples of the term (i.e. when defining 'bay', write the definition and then a couple real deal examples like 'Baffin Bay', 'Hudson Bay').

- Important: Bring your best map to class on week 2 to show to us!

Look to the guide for a full run down on what will be due for class on Week 2!