World geography students get to take a deeper look into certain cities through the eyes of an analytical lens, instead of just seeing a city in real life in a project presentation on Friday.
“We are learning about this to understand how and why people behave differently depending on where they live,” teacher Whitney Schell said. “What adaptations or modifications are being made and does this positively or negatively impact human- environment interaction. There is no way to understand the rest of geography, for example next quarter we are working on economic systems, without having this basic understanding of human behavior. ”
Students like freshman Emma Holding have been tasked with understanding regions, climate, physical landscape and human environment interaction for their cities.
“I’ve been preparing by taking notes, studying the notes and just listening during class,” Holding said. “Every time we learn something new and have it on slides I put it on my computer so I can make sure I get everything down in my notes. If there’s any videos I also watch it on my computer to follow along better with what they’re saying.”
This is the first presentation of the year in the class and freshman Madison Inskeep is feeling nervous over standing in front of the class.
“I’m nervous about the project because trying to remember topics from the beginning of the unit will be hard to remember at the end of the unit,” Inskeep said.
Shell is keeping students feeling prepared for this presentation by having them practice in front of other groups.
“There are a couple of ways that I will prepare my students,” Schell said. “One is I have them in table groups and I have them practicing speaking to their table mates. I will then move on to calling on certain groups to answer questions for the class, getting them comfortable speaking in front of the class.”
