Maps Mini Project
Kara McNish
Tools for Visualizing Data
Lesson Details
• Objective: Students will research cities and decipher the best one to be the Olympic host city
and create an itinerary and map for a guest.
• Target Audience: 10th-12th graders in Sports & Entertainment Marketing class
• Procedures:
1. Chromebook pick up
2. Log onto Google Classroom and complete the Do Now
3. Show Videos of Olympic host cities
4. Go over Lesson objective and guidelines and expectations for activity
5. Show example
6. Students being working on activity collaboratively
7. Wrap up- return Chromebooks to cart
Lesson Details contd..
• Goals: Students will research different cities in the United States and chose a city to
host the Olympics. Then, they will create a map and itinerary for the Olympic game
days for a guest visiting from another country.
• Standards: 9.3.12.MK-COM.1, 9.3.12.MK.10, 8.1.12.E.1
• Timeline: 1 week, five 42 minutes class periods
Key Elements of Lesson
• Host City:
• Students will research and chose
a host city for the 2020 Olympic
Games.
Key Elements of Lesson
• Itinerary for Day 1:
• Students will come up with an
itinerary for the days of the
games. The itinerary will be for a
guest attending the Olympics
and staying at a partner hotel.
Limbic System
• Thalamus: The thalamus takes in all the information from the lesson, the instructions,
video, and class discussion which includes the directions and purpose of the Maps
assignment.
• Hypothalamus: The hypothalamus monitors the internal systems to make sure that
your body maintains a normal state or homeostasis. In a sense, as teachers we can only
hope our students’ bodies are in a normal state and that they have had adequate sleep,
their body temperature is normal, they have eaten and drank. In order for them to focus
and be alert and participating in class they need to have all of these.
Limbic System & Neurons
• Hippocampus: The hippocampus’ job throughout the lesson is to compare incoming
information with earlier stored information and create long term storage on the topics
covered. During the lesson and class discussion, we hope that the students are connecting
the information to prior knowledge and experiences in order to store that knowledge in the
long term storage.
• Amygdala: The amygdala plays an important role in the emotions of a person. It is
important as teachers to make sure our students feel comfortable and supported, I make
sure to do this on a daily basis so that the students do not feel threatened and can have a
greater chance for being mentally present in the lesson and in turn a greater chance of long
term memory of the concepts.
• *During the entirety of the lesson (each different part), the neurons are firing and
transmitting signals to pass the on information*
The Lobes
• Lobes:
• Frontal lobes often deal with the planning and thinking, direct problem solving.
• They will be stimulated during researching and figuring out the host city, planning out the itinerary for the trip.
• Temporal lobes deal with sound, music, face and object recognition.
• The will be stimulated during working with the map because of the object recognition.
• Occipital lobes are used almost exclusively for visual processing.
• They will be stimulated during most of the lesson. They are using a lot of visual processing between the map, the
websites and pictures when they are researching and all the information on the host city and the components of
the itinerary.
• Parietal lobes deal mainly with calculation and some types of recognition.
• They will be stimulated during planning the itinerary for the guest. They will have to calculate the distance
between places as well as calculate time for events, meals, and travel to create an all inclusive itinerary.
Learning Styles
• Verbal/Linguistic: The verbal linguistic learners prefer words and language whether
written or spoken.
• This type of learner will prefer the writer directions for the project as well as the research portion.
• Logical/Mathematical: The logical mathematical learners prefer numbers and logic.
• This type of learner will prefer to calculate the distance between places as well as calculate time for
events, meals, and travel to create an all inclusive itinerary.
• Visual/Spatial: The visual spatial prefer any sort of images and graphics.
• This type of learner will prefer researching the host city, the arenas/stadiums, and hotels/restaurants
because they will be able to look at pictures and videos of these areas.
Learning Styles
• Bodily/Kinesthetic: The bodily kinesthetic learner will prefer physical movement as well
as touching and feeling.
• This type of learner will prefer getting up and working with their groups as well as presenting their
project to the class because they will be up and moving.
• Interpersonal: Interpersonal learners are social people, they enjoy talking and working
together.
• This type of learner will prefer working collaboratively with their groups to complete their projects.
• Intrapersonal: Intrapersonal learners prefer to be to themselves and work better alone.
• This type of learner will prefer doing their part of the project alone and working by themselves.
Citations
• Anthony F. Gregorc, P. D. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/Gregorc.htm
• Boeree, D. C. (2009). Retrieved from
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/limbicsystem.html