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Getting our Bearings

Explore the importance of cultural literacy, historical perspectives, and global interdependence. Understand connections between yourself, groups, and various times and places to find your place in the world. Learn how events across the globe impact our lives and societies.

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Getting our Bearings

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  1. Getting our Bearings Maps of time, space and history

  2. Why do we need to know this?

  3. ousman

  4. Prepare to live in the world • World scale cultural literacy • Perspectives between past and present • Increased “Global” world: economy, societies, cultures • Tied via technology • Growing interdependence • Understand connections between yourself & groups, times and places so you can find your place in the world

  5. You and perspective JOB FAMILY FRIENDS COUNTRY SCHOOL YOU STATE TEACHERS NEIGH- BORHOOD CITY

  6. Why start with the globe? • Because it is a place and we all have a shared history as people living on this place • Events take place in different places and times, but all are parts of the earth • Earth itself is part of a larger context in the solar system, galaxy and world • A LOT has happened in over 4 billion years • Man as been here for 7 million years

  7. “think the world” • Technology means we can experience the same thing at the same time • Intertwining • Where was your shirt made? • Where did the materials to make it come from? • How did they get there? • Where did you buy it? • How did it get to the store? • Where did the money come from to buy it? • That shirt impacted how many lives? How may places?

  8. No such thing as isolation • Tsunami in Japan, March 2011 • Destruction’s impact on Japan resulted in loss of: • property • life • jobs • Destruction’s impact on the world • Loss of production of Japanese goods • Demand for resources to rebuild • Financial support • Loss of Japanese income means less demand for certain types of foreign goods

  9. Scales of space and time • 18th century Italian document explaining a court decision: • Magnifying glass: look at writing and document itself • Study the author and the proceedings that lead to the document being written • Study the society whose laws are being applied to get some insight on their cultural values • Panoramic (broad) view of the Enlightenment in Europe and impact on law and society

  10. Space and Time • Independent of each other • Examine a very specific place over a large time period • Examine a continent over a short period of time • i.e.: Wisconsin since the glacier to today • i.e.: United States on 9/11/2001 • i.e. Public Enemy and their impact on music in NY; the country; the world; and/or on MTV; political influence (window of society in late 1980s); history of hip hop in general…

  11. Culture • Language, institutions, moral codes, social routines • Shared culture can enable people to have some expectations or predictions • Cope with change • Effects of change vary and can result in big or small reactions, good or bad

  12. Global change • Not just 1 event affecting 1 thing • Now it’s global: • War in Iraq = gas prices go up = shipping costs more = everything costs more = companies close because can’t afford increased costs = loss of jobs = less people buying things… • War in Iraq = racial and religious prejudice increases

  13. Basic Geography • Physical and natural environment • Patterns of topography (what the land itself looks like), vegetation (plants), climate (hot/cold, wet/dry, etc.) and weather (patterns)

  14. Afroeurasia: Africa, Europe, Asia

  15. America/the Americas

  16. Australasia

  17. Eurasia

  18. Great Arid Zone

  19. Inner Eurasia

  20. Oceania

  21. Southwest ousia

  22. “Cartography”king ous • “Chronography”: term used for 500 years • The art of arranging historical events • “Cartography”: since 1859 • The art of map making • Ways to describe relationships in time and space • Document these relationships • Maps tell us where we are • Other things and people are now • Where things and people were in the past • Our relationships with those things

  23. Elements of maps ousman is your king • Title: why? • Tells us what the map shows • Legend: what does it tell us? • What’s what • Symbols • Representations • Scale: why does it matter? • Size in relation to other things on the map • Proportions • perspective

  24. Elements continued ousman • Compass: • Orientation • Where is it in relation to the world • Points of reference • How do we know where we are at? • i.e. latitude and longitude to show position on a map • i.e. hash-marks on a timeline to show increments of time

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