Lab assignment 1.
Part A: Where have you been?
Using the maps provided, identify the
places you have traveled.
Write a brief description of the
destinations and record a single story
about one of your adventures in seeing
the world.
(this part of the assignment is so I can
learn more about 'who you are'… )
…as of 2004
A ‘new’ destination…
• Geography is in large part understanding the
‘sense of place’…
• When you walk down a street in St.Petersburg,
Dhaka or Hackleburg, what is different about this
place than other places?
Understanding a place that you
have never seen!
So how does a person find about a place they have never seen?
Before Al Gore invented the internet, travel books, national geographic magazine
etc. provided the data… now we have the digital resources of cyberspace at our
command….
http://boojum.com/photographs.html
http://www.wwescapes.com/taketrip/mongstep.html
http://www.un-mongolia.mn/mongolia/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/genghis/index.html
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/
http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/indexm.html#
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
etc….etc…
So what do we ‘need’ to know
• What biological communities are present
in the destination (biomes)?
http://www.whps.org/schools/SEDGWICK/research/biome.html
• What is the climate of a place? How is a
climograph read?
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/climograph.html
• What is the physiography of the place?
‘Relief map’ makes a good search term.
Writing up the exercise:
• 1. What is the question? Why does the
document you are working with exist? What are
the limits of the question? WHY?
“What is Mongolia like?” or “What is the climate, the biological community
and the physiography of Mongolia like?”
• 2. Where did your data to answer the questions
come from?
• 3. What methods did you use to answer this
question?
– (data and methods are often combined in a single
section)
Writing the report…contd.
• 4. Analysis and Conclusions
This is the core of your write up. What are the
answers to the questions? Present the data you
found that answers the questions.
Make sure and Reference the figures/photographs
in the text!
e.g. ‘the relief map of Central Asia (figure 1)
shows that Mongolia is primarily a high elevation
plateau” and make sure that figure 1 is indeed
the relief map of central Asia!
The final part of the write up…
• The final part of the analysis and
conclusion for these labs is your
evaluation of the lab.
– What did you learn?
– What worked well? What did not work?
– How might the lab be modified to help a
student learn (more information, more
efficiently, more effectively?)