1. PERSONAL REFLECTION, FORWARD THINKING, VISUALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT OF DETERMINATION (a.k.a KNOWLEDGE OF SELF)
   1. Connecting learning to life goals and careers in relation to geography
      1. Urban Planner, Cartographer
   2. Looking into our own mind to make decisions about which geographic topics/features motivate us to take part and learn
      1. Formulating inquiry questions based on personal interests
   3. Setting personal learning goals
   4. Self Advocacy
   5. Connecting learning/topics to personal views/opinions/life-choices
      1. Viewpoints on the +/- of Alberta oilsands
   6. Sense of place within surroundings due to learning, experiences and context
      1. Comparing our quality of life to a student living in urban Nigeria
2. CRITICAL THINKING
   1. Connecting learning/topics to personal views/opinions/life-choices
      1. Decision making activities - "If you had $500 to donate to an international aid organization, which would you choose and why?"
   2. Considering a range of viewpoints for an issue or topic
      1. Examining arguments for and against the creation of the Three Gorges Dam
   3. Debate and discussion skills
      1. Discussing the pros and cons of widening a stretch of highway near school
   4. Checking and analyzing our assumptions
   5. Analyzing/Identifying the purpose of a discussion, question, article, etc
3. INQUIRY SKILLS
   1. Formulating interesting/relevent research questions
      1. Taking the big idea/topic of unit and independently creating research questions based on our interests/views
   2. Gathering and organizing important/relevent information
      1. Assessing the validity/trustworthiness of different websites, articles, etc
   3. Interpreting/analyzing information found
      1. Analysing graphs, maps, etc in order to assess the factors contributing to your topic
   4. Drawing well-informed conclusions
      1. Determining actions required to solve a specific geographic issue
   5. Communicating/presenting findings
      1. Powerpoint, skit, speech, skit, etc
4. REALIZING TRENDS/PATTERNS
   1. Relating/interpreting/connecting information found in maps, graphs, tables, etc
      1. Downward trend of closing drive-in theatres in Canada over time. Why?
   2. Cause and Effect Relationships
      1. Location of First Nation reserves
5. SPATIAL SIGNIFICANCE
   1. Sense of place within surroundings due to learning, experience and context
      1. Analyzing reasons why your family chose to settle in your community
   2. Cause and Effect Relationships
      1. Upward trend of migration to urban centres
6. ANALYZING + ASSESSING RELATIONSHIPS
   1. Examining how human and environmental factors/phenomena influence each other
      1. Human choices effect our surrounding environment/Landscape features influence human settlement choices
      2. Impacts of policies, resource management, laws, etc
   2. Interrelationship between different physical systems, processes
      1. How hydrological systems shape the landscape
   3. Cause and Effect Relationships
      1. Break up of continental ice in Greenland affecting coastlines in Canada
7. IDENTIFYING, COMPARING AND CLASSIFYING CHARACTERISTICS
   1. Features
      1. Tributaries, Economic distribution, Physical regions of a continent, Land uses
   2. Phenomena
      1. Storm Cells, Vugs, Red Tides, Meromictic Lakes
   3. Systems
      1. Geological, Ecosystems, Economies, Hydrological
8. APPLYING TECHNOLOGY + MEDIA BASED APPLICATIONS
   1. Applying spatial technology applications
      1. Google earth, Atlas of the Biosphere
   2. Gathering and interpreting information with technology
      1. Excel to compile data and interpret as graphs
   3. Communicating ideas with technology
      1. Prezi, imovie, etc