The Project!

Today in human Geography we started a project. This project was about finding information on the world fact book and using the terms that we used in class the other day, like death rate, immigration, net migration, emigration, and some other terms. We were put into groups and each group was assigned a country, one person from each group would organize the information that the other group members found, and would put it onto a PowerPoint later that day using the key terms that we had learned and we looked them up on fact book. My group’s country was Indonesia, some groups had a choice between two countries, our was between Indonesia and Japan, we chose Indonesia because it isn’t really as popular a country so we figured others could learn more about this country though our PowerPoint. Most groups didn’t finish this assignment during class so we had to finish it up for homework, and then tomorrow we will present it to the class in hopes that they will learn from each PowerPoint.

Absent

Today i was sick so i didn't go to school, but i looked on Mr.Schick's website and it looks like you guys talked about population and everything that goes with it, like net migration, immigration, emigration and some other things!

The future!

Today’s class was super fun! Even though the first thing we talked about wasn’t son fun. First we talked about what we would have to do to evacuate the building in case of an emergency. Then we started getting into the video that we watched the other day, we each talked about different topics from the video that we thought were cool. We really started getting into the technology subject, talking about how people used to listen to albums on records and now we can listen to well over 1,000 songs on a little I pod. Then we got into the subject of inventing a small microchip into your brain that lets you listen to music and do everything, all you have to do is give the command! The next topic we talked about was how a lot of people are getting married that met on internet dating sites. While we were all talking about meeting people online, everyone kind of said the same thing that it’s kind of sketchy because that person that you are talking to could be anyone, you won’t know who the person is until you finally end up meeting with them. I think the world is going to be very different 30 years from now.

The 21st century!

Today in Human Geography we went over the rest of the questions we had for homework. Then we talked about how far cell phones have come in this time. They used to be really big and bulky to carry around.     Then at the end of class we watched a video on evolution during this time, and it was really interesting. The two things that I thought were the most interesting were 1: how Face book has    845 million active users also 2:   I thought it was truly amazing that in 2049 there will be a “super computer” that is smarter than the entire    human species. Our human race has become so intelligent and technology dependent and everything is on computers. We have grown into probably the greatest version of ourselves that we could have ever been. We are getting smarter and smarter and I can’t wait to see what our lives will be like 20 or thirty years from now!

Today in class!

Today in human geography we talked about a lot of different topics. First we talked a little bit about 9/11, and how Mr. Schick had two students that had families involved- one who had a father and one who had an uncle in the accident. A few of the students were asking if it was going to be the start of world war 3, but no one knew. We went over our questions for homework, we talked a lot about the country that exports the most goods which is China and how if you go to any store you are most likely to find things that were made in China. We also talked about how the United States is at the top of the list for importing and consuming oil. To answer the questions we had for homework, we used a website called fact book, which has been proven to be very helpful in finding out information on all different countries. We also got smarties for some of our important questions. 

Looking on factbook!

Human geo-questions and take 2 questions that are important-brief description of the 2 questions that you thought were important

1.       The United States population is 313,847,465

2.       The 5 largest countries in the world by population are- China, India, U.S, Indonesia, and Brazil

3.       The population in Pakistan is 190,291,129

4.       The U.S government is Constitution based; federal republic; strong democratic tradition

5.       The unemployment rate in Zimbabwe is 95%

6.       The largest country in the world by area is Russia

7.       The country with the third greatest number of airports is Mexico

8.       The country with the greatest number of exports is China

9.       Saudi Arabia exports more oil than any other country

10.   The country that imports more oil than any other is the United States

11.   The country that consumes more oil than any other is the United States

12.   Yes women can serve as combat roles in China’s military

13.   GDP is a total of all taxes and revenues received by the national government during the time period indicated

14.   The Country with the highest GDP per capita in the world is Afghanistan and the percent is 8.7%

15.   No the U.S. is not in the top ten for highest GDP per capita

16.   The countries with the highest birth rate can be found in Africa

17.   11 of the top 12 countries with the highest number of deaths from HIV/AIDS can be found in Africa

18.   Another country in the top ten is Kenya

19.   The U.S. ranks 18^th in the HIV/AID deaths

20.   No the U.S. is not #1 in the number of cell phones

21.   23.9% of the U.S. is Roman Catholic

22.   76.5% of Mexico is Roman Catholic

23.   Net migration rate is the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving the country during the year per 1,000 persons

24.   No the U.S. does not have the highest net migration rate

25.   The current population of the entire planet is 7,021,836,029

  My two Questions I thought were important:

Number 4 is important because as Americans we should know what kind of government we have.

Number 10 is important because we should also know how big of a necessity oil is for the United States, and we are the country that imports the most oil.

Note taking

Today in human geography we talked about taking notes. We talked about this because in college we are going to have to take a lot of notes while the teacher is giving lectures. A note is a fragment of information that will become a complete thought in the writing process. So in order to prepare us on note taking during a lecture Mr. Schick read us a short paragraph on Illinois, while he read to us we had to jot down as much information as we could while still being accurate, so we made a practice blog out of the notes we took. After that Mr. Schick had a few of us read ours, to see how well we could complete this task.  I thought that this exercise was very helpful because we need to learn how to take notes in a different way, and in college you really have to pay attention because in a big class the teacher is not going to pay special attention to you and answer all your individual questions.