The document discusses the major themes that geographers study including location, region, place, movement, environment, human-environment interaction, time change and continuity, conflict and change, production distribution and consumption, and governance. It provides examples and definitions for each theme and discusses how societies are affected by and interact with these geographic concepts.

1. Geography Themes
6 grade Social Studies
th

2. Question:
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What are some major ideas
that geographers study?

3. Brain Pop: Geography Themes
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The Brain Pop talks about 5
themes. Can you name them?
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Location
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Region
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Place
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Movement
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Environment

4. Create Foldable
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Fold paper ‘hotdog’
and leave about an
inch from the
edge.
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Wait for further
folding instructions

5. Title the foldable:
8 Themes of Global Studies

6. Location affects economy, culture,
and development
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What affects how your family
earns income?
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Have you ever lived in another
region of US? World?
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Was the lifestyle (jobs, houses,
entertainment) different?

7. On your foldable….
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Choose a section and write
LOCATION
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Draw a picture that makes you
think about LOCATION

8. Location
Where is it?
Absolute location—precise location on the earth
location—precise
according to imaginary lines of latitude and
longitude
Relative location—Your location in relation to
location—Your
another location

9. Mental Break….Did you know?

Stannous fluoride, which is the
cavity fighter found in toothpaste
is made from recycled tin.

10. 
How does a society adapt to its
environment?
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Why would a society change its
environment?
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What are some consequences of that
change?
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How have you experienced human
environment interaction?

11. On your foldable….
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Choose a section and write
Human Environmental Interaction
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Draw a picture that makes you
think about
Human Environmental Interaction

12. Human environmental interactions
How man impacts the environment
and
How the environment impacts man

13. Mental Break….Did you know?

Forest fires move faster uphill
than downhill.

14. 
What in your life has changed but
remained the same?
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How can a society change but basic
components remain the same over a
period of time?
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Why might a society remain the same
even if there is change over time?

15. On your foldable….
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Choose a section and write
Time, Change and Continuity
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Draw a picture that makes you think
about Time, Change and Continuity

16. Time, Change and Continuity
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Photos?
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Think of US

17. Time, Change, and Continuity
While change occurs over time, there is
continuity to the basic structure of that society

18. Mental Break….Did you know?

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285
gallons of fuel.

19. 
How does conflict with your friends
change your relationship?
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What conflict have you experienced in
your life? What changed occurred as a
result?
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Why is there change when you have
conflict between or within societies?
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Why does change always follow conflict?

20. On your foldable….
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Choose a section and write
Conflict and Change
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Draw a picture that makes you think
about Conflict and Change

21. Conflict and Change
When there is conflict between or within
societies, change is the result.

22. Mental Break….Did you know?
Budapest Is Really Two Cities
Budapest, the capital of
Hungary, is really two cities:
Buda and Pest.

23. 
What are the components of an economy?
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What influences an economy?
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How are items that you buy produced,
distributed, and consumed?
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How is the economy of our area affected by
location, customs, beliefs, and laws?

24. On your foldable….
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Choose a section and write
Production, Distribution, and
Consumption
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Draw a picture that makes you think
about Production, Distribution, and
Consumption

25. Production, Distribution, and
Consumption
Goods/Services produced by the society are
affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and
laws of the society

26. What is Economics?
Check out video, What is
o
Econ? on Safari Montage
Econ?
oPower Point

27. Mental Break…Did you know….?

There are 293 ways to make
change for a dollar.

28. Movement
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What causes families to move?
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What causes large groups of people to
move?
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What are the positive/negative
consequences of moving?
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How can society be affected by large
groups of people moving?

29. Movement
Goods—transportation
People—migration
push
pull
forced migration
Ideas—diffusion
relocation
contagious
hierarchical

30. Mental Break…Did you know….?

Peanuts are one of the ingredients
in dynamite.

31. Governance
As a society increases in complexity and
interacts with other societies, the complexity of
its government also increases.

32. Mental Break…Did you know….?

A blue whale's aorta (the main
blood vessel) is large enough for a
human to crawl through.

33. Culture
A society's culture is the product of its religion,
beliefs, values, language, customs, traditions,
and government.