ANNOTATED INSTRUCTIONS – RED and italics are the instructions on the assignment sheet LINK HW-A01-Location

 

HOMEWORK HW A01 –

DUE, beginning of class, THURSDAY January 21 -- on the memory stick I will give you TUESDAY January 19 in class.

Assignments due at the beginning of class are considered late after 12:35 PM… (don’t cut class to finish your assignment and don’t finish them in class. I won’t count off a lot for assignments turned in in a reasonable time. Late assignments may be turned in up to 4PM April 30.

 

Here’s the list of schools and school districts: http://www.onlineutah.com/schooldistricts.shtml

Coaching: choose region of Utah that interests you. If you are interested in all of Utah and truly have no special place you want to study, I hope you’ll choose a school in Box Elder, Tooele, Juab, Millard, or Beaver Counties. 1 point of extra credit for selecting a school of Utah’s Basin and Range physiographic province… meaning west of the Wasatch Front / Wasatch hingeline.

 

FIRST ---

Please set up a standardized format of files on your memory stick. All students’ memory sticks will have approximately the same file structure.

 

DIRECTORY – FILE FOLDER

AtlasFor_______________ your school’s name

 

SUB DIRECTORY – FILE FOLDER

A01-LOCATION-of_____________________

 

FILES:

A01a-Location-CoverPage

A01b-LocationOnEarth

A01c-LocationOnNorthAmerica

A01d-LocationInConterminousUSA

A01e-Location-GoogleEarth

A01f-Location-GoogleMaps

 

 

NEXT ---

the assignment.

(a) Cover sheet for LOCATION Linked as an html format and Linked as a .doc format. It's fine to make the file as a .doc and not have the map files lined to it. Just make sure that the file names make sense so they can be linked later.AND here it is as an example for the UofU LINK to cover page of UofU Atlas, Chapter 1. Location Location Location.

 

(b) five or more maps showing location

 

STEP BY STEP MARCH THROUGH ONE WAY TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT

 

Use the COVER SHEET TEMPLATE. It becomes your file “A01a-Location-CoverPage” HTML format; or .doc document to download

This cover page is where you can discuss the maps that follow. I don’t expect you to be able to link your maps to this file. It’s just fine to open it, work on it, and then save it as a .doc file. If you’ve been clear in your text write up, it will not be difficult to link  your files to your text.  

 

NOTE: you can go as wild as you want beyond what is expected. At minimum … fill out the cover page. At maximum… who knows? Link to the universe!

SAVE YOUR WORK TO YOUR COMPUTER OR YOUR OWN MEMORY STICK OR YOUR OWN FILES>

 

Files should be able to be opened by standard software. I suggest JPG format or PDF.

 

  When you've completed the assignment on your computer... FINALLY – LOAD your files onto your memory stick and turn it in to me at the beginning of class on Thursday, January 21.

 

 

AND very LASTLY… Don’t just “do it my way” but here are LINKS to an example for UNIVERSITY OF UTAH .

 

LINK UofU-A01a-Location-CoverPage

LINK UofU-A01b-LocationOnEarth

LINK UofU-A01c-LocationOnNorthAmerica

LINK UofU-A01d-LocationInConterminousUSA

LINK UofU-A01e-Location-GoogleEarth

LINK U0fU-A01f-Location-GoogleMaps

 

How did I do this homework exercise?

I went to a few of my geography-favorite sites: Google Earth and the USGS and the National Geographic.

You have lots of freedom. I hope by the end of the course you’ll have explored these three sites and more.

GOOGLE EARTH APPROACH –

Here’s what I did.

Open Google Earth (download free software if you don’t have it already). It’s on computers in Marriott Library.

The way I set up Google Earth on my computer (and you don’t have to do it my way) is,  under VIEW

Checked: Toolbar; Sidebar; Status Bar; Overview Map, Water surface. For “Show Navigation” I check “always”

 

I flew to 84112 because I knew that was the zip code for the UofU. I could have entered and address, and probably just the name “university of utah”

I de-selected all the layers and places shown on the screen, meaning, I unchecked all those boxes.

Then I checked the

Then I put a “bookmark” on Orson Spencer Hall. How? There are more than one way to do this. This is what I did… and, note, I’m not saying my way is the best or most efficient, just how I did it. I went to the left-side menu bars, and clicked under “Places” on “My Places”. Then I clicked on the thumbtack image along the top menu bar, the one above the image. Then I moved the thumbtack to OSH111, filled in the info on the popup screen for the location, and thought “that was slick.” I didn’t want the popup window to keep showing so I closed it (clicked on x in upper right corner).

 

 

Then I thought… what would look nifty as a way to show Utah’s location from a teacher’s perspective… for… LocationOnEarth.

I zoomed way way out using the zoom lever way on the right side of the image, toward the top. I held down the “minus” sign and zoomed out. This lost my place marks.

I wanted to show how large the Pacific Ocean because Earth from space is the water planet. I like seeing the stars and think it is pretty amazing that Google Earth locates them from the perspective I choose. I used the “hand” to move the globe around. I like north to be north so I double clicked on the “N” of the compass on the upper right of the screen. I clicked on and off aspects of “weather” (lower left menus), zoomed in and out to have the image I wanted, and when I was happy enough I saved the image on my computer under a special folder as UofU-A01b-LocationOnEarth01.jpg , I added the 01 at the end because I thought I might want annotate it before making it final.

 

Next… LocationOnNorthAmerica. I zoomed in a ways, took out the weather and the stars (unchecked the boxes on left-side menus)

I want to show latitude and longitude, so I will save two images, one with geographic grid lines checked and one without. Remember, you can add maps to your atlas as you like. This will change your cover page for the section (A01-Location… ) and, eventually, your Table of Contents  I wanted to show coastlines, countries, and “1st level Admin Borders (counties) but they wouldn’t show at the global scale. Also, the placemarks for Utah and the UofU don’t show yet, so those will have to wait for the map of the conterminous United States. Once again, I made sure north was north (double clicked on the “N” of the compass) and saved two versions of the LocationOnNorthAmerica.

(1) LocationOnNorthAmerica-GeogGrids.jpg  with grids (menu way toward the top of page, just under “Google Earth” go to “view” then “grid”… and I set options to degrees rather than to UTM..

(2) LocationOnNorthAmerica-01.jpg. . If I don’t tinker with that one, for example to label Utah, it will become LocationOnNorthAmerica.jpg of my Atlas for Schools Project.

 

Next… LocationInConterminousUSA: I zoom in farther… I check the boxes at left to show Borders: International borders, country names, 1st level borders, 1st level names… but I am frustrated by scale. If I’m zoomed out enough to see all of the conterminous US, I don’t get all the states’ names. So… I’ll save two images. LocationInConterminousUS with the UofU and Utah placemarks shown (I made those placemarks toward the very beginning). The other LocationInWesternUS will show the western United States with States’ labels (I took off the Utah placemark but kept on the UofU placemark).

 

Next… LocationInGoogleEarth: there’s lots of choice here. I’ll save a couple versions.

LocationInGoogleEarth-GeogGrid – because I wanted to show ways to locate a place: by geographic grid and by transportation routes. I’d wanted county lines but Google Earth wouldn’t show county lines at the regional scale that showed the entire state.

LocationInGoogleEarth-UofU-InSLCo shows a satellite view of features in and around around Salt Lake County

LocationInGoogleEarth-UofU-InSLCity and I added a couple placemarks

 

Next… LocationInGoogleMaps -- This was easy to create and difficult to save. Its advantage is that so many people use GoogleMaps because it shows streets.

From the screen that I saved into “LocationInGoogleEarth-InSLCity” – I’ll shift into GoogleMaps… (go to “File” in horizontal menu just below “Google Earth” click on “View in Google Maps” and, voila, I have a street map showing campus. I like the terrain view, particularly since I’ve made so many satellite imagery views using Google Earth. I save the Google Maps view as Location-InGoogleMaps-SLCity.... I followed the LINK to complete instructions on how to same a map from GoogleMaps and saved a map in "My Maps." Then to save it as a file for the atlas, became frustrated by not finding a way to save it as a jpg. What I did was hit "Print Screen" on my key board, pasted the image of the screen into "Paint" a Microsoft Accessories program, cropped the map part of the image, and added the jpg to my atlas. I'm sure there are easier ways, but this worked okay.

 

SO… that’s one way to do the homework using Google Earth and then Google Maps.  There are several other ways to make the maps.

 

For example:

Go to USGS National Atlas (“google” it) http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/reference.html for a series of outline maps of the United States.

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/reference/pagena6.gif&imgw=588&imgh=450 shows North America. It saves in GIF format which I need to open in another program (Adobe Photoshop) to manipulate and annotate.

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/outline/states.gif&imgw=588&imgh=450 for states of conterminous USA

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/outline/states(bright).gif&imgw=588&imgh=450 states in bright colors

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/outline/states(u).gif&imgw=588&imgh=450 states with no labels

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/reference/pagegen_ut.gif&imgw=588&imgh=450  reference map for Utah shows major highways and relief map as base.

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/counties/pagecnty_ut2.gif&imgw=588&imgh=450 map of Utah showing outline of counties

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/asp/popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/rivers/pagehyd_ut3.gif&imgw=588&imgh=450 map of Utah showing rivers and lakes. I added it to the collection in my project file because it might be useful later.

 

Another approach is via National Geographic Ed Network -- http://www.ngsednet.org/index.cfm

http://www.ngsednet.org/community/index.cfm?community_id=258 takes you to Utah Geographic Alliance

http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps for their maps

http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&c=43.74999999999998, -99.71000000000001&z=4 to search for a place

If you download the National Geographic’s 3D module (Microsoft), then you can see building in 3-D – such as Location-NtlGeog-3D-OSH111.jpg

http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=h&c=40.76321376515756, -111.84464456484585&z=19

 

And there are others. For example… simply “google”

Earth from space --- follow some links to get to NASA (so no copyright problems) http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2364

The “blue marble” http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//2429/globe_west_540.jpg  might work well for a school atlas.

 

In conclusion.

The purpose of the ATLAS for SCHOOLS project is to enhance your understanding of Geography of Utah by asking you to apply concepts to a specific place, the school you’ve chosen.

Your atlas will not look like any one else’s atlas, although, at  minimum, it will have the same map themes.

 

With respect to the first homework session for your atlas:

You should have learned some things about

  • map scales and the detail they can show
  • Google Earth as a tool for geographers
  • Utah’s location
  • The location of the school for your Atlas for Schools Project.

 

LINK to the final version of my modeling of your homework assignment LINK