The Potato Famine in Ireland
A scrapbooking activity for students

A scrapbook project can be an excellent method for student exploration and learning. Students are responsible for their own learning through Internet use. A well developed scrap can require many hours of Internet research.

The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the world in spatial terms.

1. The student should be able to use maps and other graphic representations to depict geographic problems;

The learner will demonstrate an understanding of places and regions. The student should be able to:

1. Analyze the changing physical and human characteristics of places;
2. Explain how relationshipsbetween humans and the physical environment lead to the formation of places and to a sense of personal and community identity;
3. Assess how multiple criteria can be used to define a region;
4. Describe the structure of regional systems;
5. Examine the ways in which physical and human regional systems are interconnected;
6. Describe the ways places and regions serve as symbols for individuals and society;
7. Describe the ways different groups of people within a society view places and regions;
8. Evaluate how cultural changes affect perceptions of places and regions.

The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the role of human systems on earth. The student should be able to:

1. Recognize the reasons for trends in numbers and patterns in the world population;
2. Describe the impact on physical and human systems of human migration;
3. Analyze how culture influences ways of life;
4. Describe how transportation and communications technology contribute to cultural convergence and divergence;
compare and contrast the major economic systems on Earth;
5. Explain why areas of various sizes function as economic activity centers;
6. Describe the economic interdependence of the world’s countries;
7. Explain the spatial arrangement of urban areas as well as their sizes and functions;
compare settlement patterns in undeveloped and developing countries;
8. Describe the processes that change the internal structures of urban areas;
9. Explain the ever-changing urban area;
10. Analyze the effect of conflict and cooperation and the way they influence the development and control of Earth’s social, political, and economic entities;
11. Examine how people’s lives are affected by the social, political, and economic identities on Earth;
12. Describe how self-interest and different points of view can be factors in conflict over resources and territory.