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Week 3

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Australia Scavenger Hunt

Most of you still need to finish that assignment from last week. Finish it and then go back in Google Classroom and click the “Turn In” button.

Absolute and Relative Location

This was something we talked about a while back and some of you struggled with it. Remember to pay close attention to the questions. If they ask for Absolute, you will use the coordinates at the top, bottom, and sides to find your location. If it asks for Relative Location, you will need 2 locations and 1 direction. For example, the Relative Location of Carthage is east of Joplin. Carthage and Joplin are the 2 locations and east is the direction.

Your assignment is here: Australia absolute and relative location

As always, make sure you use complete sentences and a different color font for your answers. 

When you finish, save it and turn it in.

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Week 2

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Continue working on the assignment from yesterday. You should finish it today.

Whenever you save it, make sure it’s in your H Drive (MOSIS number) and in this format:

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After you save, turn it in.

I will give you about 15-20 minutes to finish the Concepts assignment. After that, I will have you start working on the next assignment.

Today’s lesson focuses on Absolute and Relative Location. This isn’t a difficult concept, but you do have to pay attention for closely to the details. You need to click on this link and go through all of the pages on this website. It’s an interactive website that talks about maps, hemispheres, and absolute location.

I think the website has a lot of good information, but it doesn’t really teach you about Relative Location. Relative Location is a place’s location in relation to another location. You don’t use degrees whenever you find Relative Location. 

For example: 

Mexico is south of the United States.

Joplin is west of Carthage. 

If you notice, there are 2 locations given in both examples and a direction is also given. That’s how Relative Location should always look. There are usually several different answers that could work for Relative Location.

After you go through all of the slides on the website above, you need to download and complete this assignment:  Absolute and Relative Location   

To type the °symbol, press and hold “alt” on your keyboard, then type 248 using the number keys on the right hand side of your keyboard.

Whenever you finish, save it and turn it in.

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