Milestone One Worksheet Guidelines
Overview:This milestone activity is the first of two specific milestones that will build toward your complete final project for the course. For this milestone activity, you will submit this completed worksheet, in which you will address the elements below regarding your current and new global regions. See the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document for detailed information about this scenario.These responses will inform the speaker notes transcript that you will create to accompany your final project presentation.
Prompt: For this assignment, complete the following steps:
1. Download this document.
2. Review the Milestone One Rubric (below the worksheet).
3. Complete Parts I through III below, which address the following critical elements:
I. Provide a mapof your current global region and describe its location, sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics, and interactions.
II. Provide a mapof your new global region and describe its location, sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics, and interactions.
III. Compare the similarities and differences between your current and new region based on their physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics.
4. Once you have completed the worksheet, upload your saved worksheet filealong with any additional map image filesand submit this milestone assignment to Blackboard.
Part I: Current Global Region
1. Identify Your Current Region:
2. Map of Current Global Region: Provide a map of your current region. In the box below you may provide a link to your map, insert an image, or make note that you are submitting an additional file with this worksheet. Include a citation to give credit to the resource from which you are obtaining your image.
Note:The box will expand to accommodate your image.
3. Location of Current Global Region: Discuss where your current region is located, addressing the absolute and relative location of the region.Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
4. Characteristics of Current Global Region: Explain what key sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics define this as a region. Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
5. Interactions of Current Global Region: How have humans and the environment interacted to produce observable landscapes in your current region?Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
Part II: New Global Region
1. Identify Your New Global Region:
2. Map of New Global Region: Provide a map of the new region you will be moving to. In the box below, you may provide a link to your map, insert an image, or make note that you are submitting an additional file with this worksheet. Include a citation to give credit to the resource from which you are obtaining your image.
Note:The box will expand to accommodate your image.
3. Location of New Global Region: Discuss where the new region is located, addressing the absolute and relative location of the region you will be moving to. Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
4. Characteristics of New Global Region: Explain what key sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics define this as a region. Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
5. Interactions of New Global Region: How have humans and the environment interacted to produce observable landscapes in the new region you will be moving to?Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
Part III: Comparison of Similarities and Differences
1. Similarities: Based on the physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics you have described, what are the major similarities between your current and new region?
2. Differences: Based on the physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics you have described, what are the major differences between your current and new region?