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**Physical Geography Review Stations-7th Grade Geography** By Ammie Whiteley

Standards: 7.2.7 Understand how physical systems and the physical environment affect human systems. 7.3.2 Locate the Earth's major physical characteristics

Objectives: TSWBAT identify the location of Earth's major physical characteristics. TSWBAT explain why physical, biological processes leave discernible patterns on the Earth's surface locally, regionally, and globally.

Procedure: Students will rotate through stations to review Physical Geography (Ch.'s 2 and 3). My students will complete these stations in homogenous pairings.

Vocabulary Review** Materials: 2 laptops Students will practice vocabulary on the following link, then complete the test until they have a score they are happy with. Note: Students will reconfigure the test each time they take it, so students will take a new quiz over the same material each time. Also, I do not have students complete written questions. media type="custom" key="4013381"
 * Station 1:

Continents and Oceans Mindmaps** Materials: Copies of the following embedded page for each student. Have students sit so that they cannot see any of the maps or globes in the room. Then have them practice the mind-mapping activity below. To accommodate students with differing abilities, this activity has three levels.
 * Station 2:



Earth's Processes: Music Video** Materials: 2 laptops Students will work in homogenous pairs to create an animation for one of the Earth's processes on the site www.animoto.com. Students will choose one process from the following: wind and water currents, erosion, volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics, and weathering. They will then collect images and create text for their animation. They will be required to define the process, give examples, and explain this process' effect on human systems or if human systems have slowed or accelerated the process. Once this is done they will load images and text onto animoto.com and choose music to go with their music video. media type="custom" key="4014189"
 * Station 3: