GeograPhDy http://www.geographdy.com/blog Geography Musings and Graduate Student Life Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:39:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sample Geography Classroom Lesson Plans from the Real World http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=421 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=421#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:20:24 +0000 hans http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=421 Continue reading →]]> Well some of us geographers may end up as classroom teachers! I did the first geography lesson plan for a class project. The lesson’s purpose is to not only introduce students to the variability of Earth’s temperature history, but to help them differentiate between fact and opinion. Of course, getting the temperature data might be difficult; and time scale can change everything!  It would be appropriate for grades 6 through 12.  Realistically, this is probably too much for one class period, and would be divided up into two-days work.  What do you think?

The second attachement is a sample of all the planning that goes into a week of teaching Social Studies.  I did this for a teaching team at Veteran’s Hill Elementary at Hutto ISD. The 3rd grade generalist teachers take turns writing the weekly lesson plans per subject. On this particular week I was filling in for a teacher and it was my turn to write the Social Studies plans for the team.

Climate Change Lesson Plan (Grades 6-12)

Sample Weekly Planning for 3rd Grade Social Studies

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=421 0 Visualizing Early Washington, DC http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=414 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=414#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:42:05 +0000 David http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=414

From the Map Room blog, this site and project from UMBC shows a visualization of early Washington DC.

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=414 0 Mapping Cupcakes and Gangs http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=412 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=412#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:20:06 +0000 David http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=412 Mapping Cupcakes and Gangs.

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=412 0 My first graduate school paper! http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=404 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=404#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:41:59 +0000 hans http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=404 Continue reading →]]> I found my very first graduate school paper! It was the term paper for Multivariate Quantitative Methods. It was a statistical analysis of the cost of severe weather hazards over time.A Statistical Exploration of the Relationships Affecting Weather Related Fatalities and the Economic Costs of Selected Violent Weather Categories Utilizing 1950 – 2000 NOAA Data

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=404 0 Lego GIS! http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=393 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=393#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:39:33 +0000 David http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=393 This article at Flowing Data shows how you can use Lego’s to create cartograms and 3D visualizations.

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=393 0 Radiolab Podcast – Lost and Found http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=390 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=390#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:47:37 +0000 David http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=390

This episode of Radiolab from NPR and WNYC looks at how the brain uses location, how pigeons navigate, and how language is used to help us navigate spatially.

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=390 0 Geography Resume Ideas? http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=385 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=385#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:25:17 +0000 hans http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=385 Continue reading →]]> Us graduating geographers will be entering a tough job market.  Of course, that is only half of the problem.  It is difficult to choose a career profession with our diverse interdisciplinary skill set.  If you are like me, you want to do a lot of things.  At any rate, here are a few interesting resume ideas I have created.  The first, resume 2.0, is a portal with embedded hyperlinks to other web pages and examples of my work.  The resume, Hans Recommended is almost entirely in other’s words.  It is an amalgamation of reference letters, professor comments on papers, etc.  Enjoy!

Friedel Resume 2.0 (Word 2003) 2011

Friedel Resume Recommended

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=385 0 Geography Outside of Academia http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=376 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=376#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:08:19 +0000 David http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=376 Continue reading →]]> The folks at Cubit Planning discuss having a geography career outside of the traditional academic setting.

Here the first part of their interview with the AAG here:

Geography Career Paths: Working Outside of Academia (2 of 3)

View more videos from Kristen Carney.
]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=376 0 City Ordinances and Sustainability http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=370 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=370#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:29:34 +0000 hans http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=370 Continue reading →]]> It is interesting to see how something as simple as an Off-Street Parking Ordinance can make a place more environmentally friendly and sustainable. 
For instance, the example included here contains landscaping and light pollution standards: off-street parking and loading rewrite 2011

Also, transportation corridor plans, overlay zoning, and special districts can help places be more sustainable: Colorado Street Corridor Improvement Plan Intern Project

]]> http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=370 0 Where Am I? Reflections on a Geographic Graduate Education http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=362 http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=362#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:28:28 +0000 hans http://www.geographdy.com/blog/?p=362 Where_Am_I 

Where Am I? Reflections on a Geographic Graduate Education

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