GIS Writing
Using your maps, memories and your notes from these classes, discussions, readings and prep work, respond to the
question using the following steps:
1.
2.
Planning: Brainstorm & Organize (homework)
Writing (in-class)
Question:
How can spatial technologies help us better understand the 2 types of geography, the 5 themes of
geography, and the 3 questions of geography?
Planning/Brainstorming
Hypothesis/Evidence Template
Question:
How can spatial technologies help us better understand the 2 types of geography, the 5 themes of geography, and the 3
questions of geography?
What is the task (in your own words):
Key Terms to Discuss:
Find the benefit of spatial technologies towards the 2
Location, Place, Human Environment Interaction, Region,
types of geography, the 5 themes of geography, and the 3 and Movement. What is where? Why there? Why care?
questions of geography.
Hypothesis:
I think we can understand the 2 types of geography, the 5 themes of geography, and the 3 questions of geography
through spatial technology by changing the scale, the filter, the base map, etc. Changing these would be a lot harder in
real life but could be easily shifted and changed through a lot ways. Changing them can give you a better understanding
or a new understanding of the country or region.
Explanation of Idea
How is it good for 2 types of geography? (Human and Physical)
Human Geography look at the impact of people and human behavior while physical maps represent the natural process
like climate, plate, etc. With ArcGIS, one could somehow squeeze in both of them and provide a good amount of
information through notes, filters, etc. That is why spatial technologies are good for understanding of the types of
geography.
Evidence Quotation ☐ Visual Cue ☐ Inference ☐ Connection ☐
I used the ArcGIS myself and I had to put the physical and human geography traits on my map and I did. I was successful
in including information from the 2 types of geography in my project.
Extension
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Explanation of Idea
How is it good for the 5 themes of geography? (Location, Place, Human Environment Interaction, Movement, Region)
Again, the spatial technology is able to show us all the information in an easy and understandable way. We can show
the information in Journals through a different variety of map. Each of the themes can be easily represented on these
maps by using the filters, notes, showing the natural boundaries, etc. And most of these would require a lot of work if
done on paper.
Evidence Quotation ☐ Visual Cue ☐ Inference ☐ Connection ☐
Self Experience in the ArcGIS project and the Drawing of the map in Iraq.
Extension
Explanation of Idea
How is it good for the 3 questions of geography? (What is where? Why there? Why care?)
Through the understanding of all the information, there is already a brief answer to these questions. –
Further research of these questions would lead you deeper into the topics and it is really easy to differ them on the
map after one is done putting the information, filters, notes, and other things on the map. Filters would be impossible
on normal drawn maps and notes on hand drawn maps would be a disaster if it wasn’t well organized.
Evidence Quotation ☐ Visual Cue ☐ Inference ☐ Connection ☐
Extension
Conclusion: Rhetorical Question ☐ Rephrasing ☐ Big Idea ☐
In conclusion, the spatial technology help us understand the two types of geography, five themes, of geography better
because:
-Easiness to show the information
-Can put multiple information on a same map
-Useful filters and easy to create
For this piece of writing, I am focusing on:
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CATEGORY
POSITION OR THESIS
STATEMENT
EXCELLING
The position statement
provides a clear, strong
statement of the author's
position on the topic.
ADVANCING
The position statement
provides a clear statement of
the author's position on the
topic.
EMERGING
A position statement is
present, but does not make
the author's position clear.
LACKING
There is no position
statement.
ACCURACY
All supportive facts and
statistics are reported
accurately.
Almost all supportive facts
and statistics are reported
accurately.
Most supportive facts and
statistics are reported
accurately.
Most supportive facts and
statistics were inaccurately
reported.
QUALITY OF EVIDENCE
& EXAMPLES
All of the evidence and
examples are specific,
relevant and explanations
are given that show how
each piece of evidence
supports the author's
position.
Most of the evidence and
examples are specific,
relevant and explanations
are given that show how
each piece of evidence
supports the author's
position.
At least one of the pieces of
evidence and examples is
relevant and has an
explanation that shows how
that piece of evidence
supports the author's
position.
Evidence and examples are
NOT relevant AND/OR are
not explained.
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
All sentences are well
constructed with varied
structure.
Most sentences are well
constructed and there is
some varied sentence
structure in the essay.
Most sentences are well
constructed, but there is no
variation is structure.
Most sentences are not well
constructed or varied.
SPELLING &
GRAMMAR
Author makes no errors in
grammar or spelling that
distract the reader from the
content.
Author makes 1-2 errors in
grammar or spelling that
distract the reader from the
content.
Author makes 3-4 errors in
grammar or spelling that
distract the reader from the
content.
Author makes more than 4
errors in grammar or spelling
that distract the reader from
the content.
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