Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today I’ll be telling you about a recent project that we did called The Power of Geography. This is a very special project because we went to Alberta to enhance our learning!
The first thing we did was learn about the five themes of geography. The five themes are place, location, regions, human-environment interaction, and movement. Each theme has sub-themes. For place, the sub-themes are physical and human cultural. Physical is like landforms, such as mountains, forests, or valleys. Human cultural is every day life, such as religion, food music, and more. For location, there are two sub-themes as well. There is absolute location, which is the exact location of where you are, such as a set of coordinates. Then there is a relative location, which is approximately where you are. An example for this could be “in Deep Cove.” Next, there are regions. Vernacular regions are a place defined by people, such as Gastown, or even Deep Cove. After that, there are functional regions, which are regions defined by a function of how the region is used. An example for this would be Vancouver Harbour. Lastly, there are formal regions, which are regions defined by an administrative boundary. An example for this could be North and South Korea. Human-environment interaction is based on three main ideas. Those ideas are we adapt to the environment, and we depend on the environment. Last but not least, there is movement. In movement, there is the movement of people, the movement of ideas and the movement of products.
Now I’m going to show you my book! We spent a while working on this, and it was quite interesting. The first step of making our book was making a comic life on the five themes of geography. 
Anyways, here’s my book!
For curricular competency’s, I think that I did well. The competency in this project was questioning. I did well questioning different things, and I asked questions on the trip.
Thank you for reading, and I’ll see you in the next post!