1 / 20

Place: A unique Location

Place: A unique Location. What title would you give this picture ? Explain why. Place: A unique location. Place can be described in 5 ways. 1. Place Name. Toponym : name give to a place on earth Longest name of a place: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. 2. Absolute Location.

nowles
Download Presentation

Place: A unique Location

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Place: A unique Location

  2. What title would you give this picture? Explain why.

  3. Place: A unique location • Place can be described in 5 ways

  4. 1. Place Name • Toponym: name give to a place on earth • Longest name of a place: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

  5. 2. Absolute Location • Exact location such as an address or Latitude/longitude coordinates • EX: 50N, 75E • 5015 S. Blackstone

  6. 3. Situation (relative location) • Location of a place relative to other locations • Kenwood is east of the lake

  7. 4. Site • Physical characteristics of a place • Climate, water, topography, soil, vegetation, elevation

  8. Human Characteristics • Characteristics about the people • Language, culture, population, tourism, economy, religion, government etc.

  9. Reading: Focus on meaning of words • Read and talk to the text

  10. Group Picture and gallery walk • Every group will use the descriptive vocabulary in the reading and draw a picture of how they visualize Buenos Aires. You do not have to include everything from the reading. Just what you pictured during and after reading.(10 min) • Gallery walk with comments of pictures

  11. Retitle the picture-explain your title using information from the reading and gallery walk

  12. BR: Copy this page and the chart on next slide in your notebook…leave room to write! • Write the Place name. For each of the other characteristics of place write a least three examples (you can list them) • Toponym (place name): • Situation (Relative Location): • Site (Physical Characteristics): • Human Characteristics:

  13. Bell Ringer-none-start notes immediately

  14. Go back through the reading and figure out the meaning of words and examples of vocabulary used for place

More Related