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MODULE 1: Introduction to Geographic Science
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KWL ACTIVITY
Know
Direction: Inside the box please write at least 10 answers that you already know about
Social Sciences and Geographic Science.
SOCIAL SCIIENCES
1. Social sciences include the study of
culture and cultural diversity.
2. Social sciences include the study of
the past and its legacy.
3. Social sciences include the study of
people, places, and environments.
4. Social sciences include the study of
individual development and identity.
5. Social sciences include the study of
interactions among individuals,
groups, and institutions.
6. Social sciences include the study of
how people create, interact with, and
change structures of power,
authority, and governance.
7. Social sciences include the study of
how people organize for the
production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services.
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
1. Human geography looks at the size of a
group, their ages, their genders, their
racial composition, and population
growth or loss.
2. To understand a group, it’s important
to know more than just what language
they speak.
3. Human geography talks about many
people’s routines and traditions that are
steeped in their religious belief systems.
4. Ethnicity is about more than just what
people look like or where their ancestors
came from.
5. Who in the group is educated (and to
what level) helps us understand a
society’s values and priorities.
6. Human geography also covers health
such as do people in this group have
access to medical care.
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MODULE 1: Introduction to Geographic Science

Uncover Your Prior Knowledge!

KWL ACTIVITY

Know
Direction: Inside the box please write at least 10 answers that you already know about
Social Sciences and Geographic Science.

SOCIAL SCIIENCES HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

8. Social sciences include the study of 7. As we well know, people within a

relationships among science,
technology, and society.
9. Social sciences include the study of
global connections and
interdependence.
10. Social sciences include the study of
global connections and
interdependence.
society tend to divide themselves into
groups and subgroups.
8. A firm grasp of the living standards —
and how they vary between groups and
subgroups — is vital to understanding
why people in a specific area do what
they do.
9. Human geography is greatly
influenced by mobility. Such as how do
people, things, and ideas travel within
the culture and outside of it.
10. Climate and weather can significantly
— even catastrophically — influence
people’s behavior and actions.
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MODULE 1: Introduction to Geographic Science

ACTIVITY 1
KWL ACTIVITY

What
Direction: From the box below, please write at least 10 questions that you want to know
from the given topics (Social Sciences and Human Geography). Your questions will be
your guide in learning the lesson.

SOCIAL SCIIENCES HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

1. What is social sciences? 1. What is human geography?

2. What is the relationship of social
sciences to physical sciences?
3. What is the relationship of social
sciences to life sciences?
4. What is the history of social
science?
5. What are the foundations of social
science?
6. What is the contribution of Ancient
Times to social science?
7. What is the contribution of Medieval
Times to social science?
8. What is the contribution of European
enlightenment to social science?
9. What is the Development foundation
of social science?
10. What is the Future foundation of
social science?
2. What are the five divisions of human
geography?
3. What is traditional focus of economic
geography?
4. What is contemporary focus of
economic geography?
5. What is political geography?
6. What is the use of mapping in social
geography?
7. What is the focus of population
geography?
8. What is medical geography?
9. What is the relationship between
cultural geography and anthropology?
10. What is urban geography?

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MODULE 1: Introduction to Geographic Science
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KWL ACTIVITY
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Direction: Write at least ten of the best takeaways that you have learned from the
lesson.
SOCIAL SCIIENCES
1. Social science is a branch of
knowledge that deals with society and
human behavior. Social science is
generally considered to be a broad field
of knowledge that includes
anthropology, archeology, criminology,
economics, education, history,
linguistics, political science,
international.
2. Social Science deals with the cultural
and behavioral aspects of human
beings, their relationship with others
especially with society, whereas physical
science deals with the nonliving aspects
like properties of matter sociology,
anthropology, economics, linguistics,
psychology etc.
3. Life science referred to as biologic that
is genetically related and social science
deals the human behavior as well as
cultural aspects.
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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
1. Human geography is the study of how
people interact with their environment.
The topic focuses on how humans
manage and utilize the earth's surface
and resources.
2. There have been five primary
categories within human geography
since 1945. The first four—economic,
social, cultural, and political—reflect not
just the key aspects of contemporary life
but also the social science fields with
which geographers collaborate (i.e.,
economics, sociology, anthropology,
political science, and international
relations); the fifth is historical
geography.
3. Economic geography has traditionally
concentrated on the distribution of
diverse productive activities, with
subdivisions into the geography of
agriculture, the geography of industry,
and the geography of services, as well as
trade patterns like transport geography.

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SOCIAL SCIIENCES
4. In the 18th century, social science was
called moral philosophy, as contrasted
from natural philosophy and
mathematics, and included the study of
natural theology, natural ethics, natural
jurisprudence, and policy ("police"),
which included economics and finance
("revenue").
5. Ancient Times, Medieval Times,
European Enlightenment, Development
and Future.
6. The fields today regarded as the
liberal arts and the sciences had little
separation in ancient civilizations. There
was no distinction between the study of
mathematics and that of politics, history,
or poetry.
7. Theorizing was moved to the priests
and a group of scholars known as the
Scholastics after Rome's fall, which had
minimal impact on science.
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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
4. Several studies conducted nowadays
focus on how businesses choose their
locations, the regulatory frameworks in
place in each state (including measures
intended to draw in and keep
investment), and how these factors
affect the distribution of economic
activity.
5. Political geography's primary concerns
are on the nation-state and its borders,
as well as the interactions between
governments and their constituents.
6. Mapping are supported by more in-
depth studies on the function of place
and space in social behavior, such as
that conducted on the geography of
crime and educational access, as well as
the formation and transmission of
mental representations of such
geographies.

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SOCIAL SCIIENCES
8. The Age of Enlightenment emphasized
reason as a means of enabling people
to discover the objective truth about all
reality and free themselves from
superstition and religion.
9. The emergence of social research was
one approach adopted. In several
regions of the United States and Europe,
extensive statistical surveys were
conducted.
10. Although the social sciences are still
relatively young—less than 200 years old
—there are still several topics and
research paths where there is no
consensus.
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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
7. The three main demographic factors
of fertility, mortality, and migration are
the focus of population geography.
8. Medical geography focuses on the
distribution of health care services as
well as patterns of illness and death,
such as how diseases spread and how
local environmental factors affect
differences in morbidity and mortality
rates.
9. Cultural geography originally shared a
strong relationship with anthropology.
But, this has been replaced by a broader
understanding of the interactions
between individuals, societies, and their
environments.
10. Urban geography was one of the
most widely studied areas from the
1960s through the 1980s, under the
banner of which much pioneering work
in the locational analysis approach was
conducted.