Forum 1.4 - Identifying Nebraska's Place

11/16/2021

Guiding Thought Question: Identifying the place characteristics at a number of different scales.

City - Identify 3 defining human characteristics (significant landmarks, cultural traits), and 3 defining physical characteristics (climate, physical traits) of your home city.

State - Identify 3 defining human characteristics (significant landmarks, cultural traits), and 3 defining physical characteristics (climate, physical traits) of your home state.

Country - Identify 3 defining human characteristics (significant landmarks, cultural traits), and 3 defining physical characteristics (climate, physical traits) of your home country.

Guiding Inquiry: What can you learn about a Place from "reading the landscape" to analyze it's human and physical characteristics?

Today's Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify characteristics of the physical landscape and how they are a reflection of its location on the planet. Students will practice identifying the principles of place, and complete an activity where they identify place characteristics and the impacts those characteristics have on speciation. (3.1)

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Ella

1/18/2022 12:32:15 pm

1. small downtown, winding streets, houses, trees, hills, stream
2.capitol building, desert dome, Union Pacific trains, Sand hills, corn, Platte River
3.statue of liberty, guns, diversity, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mostly temperate climate

Murray

1/18/2022 12:35:34 pm

City: St. Mary's (very humid, very southern [we are off of exit one on the interstate], big flat, lots of Spanish moss, hot all the time, lots of tabby used for building because between the river and the ocean (which we can't really access anymore because of the military base) was used to build like all of the historic buildings.

State: Atlanta, southern accents, guns, and country music. Peaches and boiled peanuts being sold year round at roadside stands. It's not as hot and humid in the rest of the state (Atlanta still gets snow sometimes), apparently it is "temperate deciduous forest".
Idk man we hosted the Olympics once.

Country: freedom, eagles, guns, its a big boi so there is so much variation in climate.

izzy

1/18/2022 12:37:05 pm

city: bellevue!
human characteristics:
- a lot of older buildings compared to other nearby suburbs
- there is a presbyterian church in old town bellevue that’s almost 200 years old! super cool! it’s a culture thing! churches !
- the air force base is definitely a cultural characteristic because a lot of people in bellevue are military

physical characteristics:
- no large bodies of water
- prairie-y vegetation, lots of grass
- can get really really cold and really really hot in short amounts of time

state: nebraska!
human characteristics:
- lots of farms / cattle ranges
- a lot of churches / religious buildings
- not many urban areas
physical characteristics:
- really unpredictable weather
- pretty flat prairies
- not a lot of trees, mostly grass

country: united states
human characteristics:
- really dense urban pockets in cities in contrast w/ some really open spaces w/ less population
- industry varies place to place depending on location
- a lot of land taken up by urbanization / industry
physical characteristics:
- it’s a pretty big country with a lot of variance in its physical traits
- wide variety of landforms and climates including mountains, deserts, prairies, & forests
- some areas are warm all year round and some are cold

williamson

1/18/2022 12:38:01 pm

MUSEUMS

corn, cows, more corn

?!?!?!?!??!? Everything

Riley Martin

1/18/2022 12:38:20 pm

City: Omaha
-Human characteristics: There is the parks next to my house, spent a lot of time there. The bike path next to me house is pretty fun. Then the park down by Papio bay and Bowl.
-Physical: very flat. awful weather changes. small lakes strewn about.

State: Nebrask
-Human: Lots of forest (not supposed to be there) to go for walks. I like fishing with my grandpa. Not much to do other than go somewhere to eat.
-Physical: Lots of trees, very flat and hilly, Lots of small animals.

Country: USA
-Human: I have only been in Nebraska, I have no idea.
Physical: lots of diverse ecosystems and climates. Very wide range of animals

little forget link

1/18/2022 12:38:56 pm

Omaha- human characteristics: the omaha henry doorly zoo and aquarium, the stockyards, and Union Pacific (United States' largest railroad operator).
physical characteristics: rolling hills, weather and climate fluctuate rapidly, and lots of flat iron buildings in downtown.

Nebraska- human characteristics: the omaha henry doorly zoo and aquarium, the stockyards, and Union Pacific (United States' largest railroad operator).
physical characteristics: rolling hills, chimney rock, and Scotts Bluff National Monument.

United States of America- human characteristics: the empire state building, the statue of liberty, and the Lincoln monument.
physical characteristics: the rocky mountains, the grand canyon, and the golden coasts.

darth darthington

1/18/2022 12:39:27 pm

where is the best art in the Empire displayed?

At the sith-sonian

Braeden Irwin

1/18/2022 12:39:45 pm

Michigan
Howell: Most people are very middle-ground with money, everyone took the bus to school and it could be up to an hour- an hour and a half bus ride. Everyone were farmers, or worked small jobs.
The sub-division that I lived in was completely surrounded by woods, there was a wooden park that was the main attraction of Howell, there was a small park and pool that was in the sub division I lived in. It was also a 20 minuet drive from the nearest store.

State: Significant difference between the upper and lower parts of people, the words used to describe some things seem to be weird to other people. There is a general line of middle-class among the people who live there working industrial jobs.
It's almost all forest with two big cities, the great lakes make for really snowy winters and overall it takes forever to drive anywhere.
USA: the people don't understand what their rights mean, most of the time they get upset over small things, they care much more about money than the environment
A fairly split climate where the top half has a snowy and warm season while the southern has mostly warm all year round, the majority of the country tends to be flat or mountainous, it's huge.

Maria

1/18/2022 12:40:42 pm

Omaha- Henry Doorly Zoo, English language, Catholicism as dominate religion, Along Missouri River, continental climate, trees
Nebraska- farmers and cattlemen, red voting state, English language, Farmland, plains, chimney rock
United States-English language, Washington DC, 50 states, Yellowstone NP, Grand Canyon, coastline of both Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

Alyssa Dillon

1/18/2022 12:43:39 pm

City
- Benedictine Monastery (most of the people in Tucson AZ are Catholics)
- Arizona-Saguaro Desert Museum (dedicated to protect the saguaros)
- lots of cactus, rocks everywhere, mountains
State
-again, most people in Arizona are catholic
- there is a higher Hispanic population
- lots of national parks reserving cacti, mountains and wacky rocks (Grand Canyon)
Country
- yay freedom :)

emma

1/18/2022 01:00:59 pm

in omaha we have the zoo, the train coming into omaha and lots of our parks physical its very bipolar when it comes to the temp we either get no snow or a lot, lots of farm lands.

farming, agracultural production and natural attractions and then till plains, great plains and treeless prairie

size of population, language patterns, other aspects of culture, and the other 3 are that its mostly temperate, rocky mountains, and interior plains

emma mcgrath

1/19/2022 09:02:57 am

City: Omaha
-Old Market, HD Zoo, midwest culture
-temperate, flat, windy
State: Nebraska
-fields/agriculture, sandhills, temperate, mostly flat, windy
Country: United States
-rocky and Appalachian mountains, oceans and gulfs, NYC, Disney World, Texas, California

Sienna

1/19/2022 09:04:31 am

City- the zoo, askarben, downtown. Cold winters, hot summers, rainy springs.
State- Farming, zoo, capital. A lot of rain, praire, flat.
Country- a lot of different people, statue of liberty, disney world. All different season, a lot of mountains, all different terrains.

Emily

1/19/2022 09:06:33 am

city (omaha)- zoo, older buildings, lots of parks; streams, trees, weather variations

state (nebraska)- chimney rock, lots of farmers, right-leaning; flat, not many trees, sandhills

country (US)- diversity, large cities, patriotism; large, many different types of landscapes, lots of farmland

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