Neighborhood Visit #1 - Mexico City

Students are beginning their virtual tour of Mexico City with two university students, Jose and Maria. They have listened to the the interview that takes places in one of the neighborhoods inside the Federal District of Mexico City. Students are investigating the essential questions mentioned in the previous blog surrounding differences in standard of living and spatial inequality in an urban setting.

Global Issue #2 - Spatial Inequality

Students are embarking upon their study of a second global issue in EarthBuzz, spatial inequality in urban areas. Our case study will highlight the megacity of Mexico City where students will take a virtual tour through 4 different neighborhoods and survey people from four different social classes. There are 2 essential questions for this unit: What are the causes of consequences of urbanization? How does spatial inequality affect people living in Mexico City and their standard of living?

NetTrekker

NetTrekker is an online website to assist Shadow Ridge students in their learning adventures and will be a tremendous learning tool for our core. NetTrekker combines the features of a search engine, like Google, with an online classroom!

To log in students use the following format: (username-srm123456, password-srm20001218). Students can enter and view any of Ms. Donahue's Social Studies folders at any time and they are able to log in at school, Homework Helpers, local library, or home. For example, students have an opportunity to practice their mastery of geography skills by working with online learning games of latitude and longitude. There is a link to the NetTrekker on the sidebar on the right under the heading, "Links." Try it this week!

October 5th Happenings!

Any students that have not completed their latitude and longitude quiz need to complete their quiz at home. Please remember to respond to the opinion question on a separate piece of lined paper after reading the background statements, "Should students have to learn cursive writing?" Champ & Stewie want to make sure you are learning more about our planet! They want to remind you to work on Current Event #2 for Friday. They love to hear about international, national, and local news stories!~Champ & Stewie

How do geographers locate places on Earth? Torrey's Peak young geographers are using the Earth's global grid to find absolute locations of various continents, countries, cities, and bodies of water. Lines of latitude are also called parallels and these latitudes measure distance north or south of the Equator. Lines of longitude are also called meridians and these longitudes measure distance east or west of the Primer Meridian.