Week of Apr. 22-26

4/22/13
Essential Question:  What is the rank-size rule?
Group work:  Ask student-made questions in groups
Whole group:  Ask the teacher
Homework:  Research the urban morphology of your city.  Write a paragraph on it based on the concepts defined in this chapter.

4/23/13
Warm-up:  review rank size rule and compare to primate city rule.  
Essential Question:  What is your hometown's urban morphology?
Proofread hometown morphologies and highlight urban geo. terms.
In groups of 4, share urban morphology of hometowns.  Vote on the best one; place star at top.
Share with group.
Collect paragraphs.
Homework:   Redo urban morphology paragraph; make sure you apply vocab. from urban geography chapter.

4/24/13
collect paragraphs
Essential Question:  What and where are the important cities of the world?
Warm-up:  Identify individual cities' countries listed in Barron's.
Plot cities on a world map. Identify country by coloring and labeling.
Homework:  finish maps

4/25/13
collect maps
Promethean Board review
Homework:  review central place theory

4/26/13
Group work:  explain central place theory to your learning partner
Homework:  Review Urban Geo. for test on Monday