Welcome and great to see all you beautiful people! Today in class we have our first Map Test! These are fairly significant so I hope that you have spent the time to study and prepare, especially for this first one! I hope that your maps look good too! Let's get down to business! Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate geographic knowledge on a North America Map Test
- Collect North America Maps
- North America Map Test
- Review Current Event MyMaps activity
- Tracking of Current Events via MyMap
- You will need to create a new map by clicking on the red button in the top left corner.
- Title the map P4_Lui A_Current Event Map
- Use the search bar to find the city location of your Current Event #1 and drop a pin on that location by selecting “add to my map”.
- Title your pin Current Event #1 (location), including the location name in the parenthesis.
- Use the pencil tool to edit your pin.
- In the dialogue box, write the title of your Current Event #1 news article and then include the URL for the news article you sourced for your Current Event.
- TECH TIP: to enter a line space you need to press Shift + Return within the dialogue box. If you only press Return, it will just save the map.
- Last, use the camera tool to enter in a picture relating to the city of where your location takes place, or a picture relating to your news article.
- Save the pin.
- You will repeat this with Current Event #2 after you have completed the worksheet.
- All map pins will be in the same “untitled” layer
- Current Event #4 due Sunday @ 11:59 PM
- Must be from Europe
- Catch up on your Current Events MyMaps
- Make any corrections needed to match the assignment instructions
- Check out Mapping resources for Europe
- Europe Map Test on February 26!
