Unit 7
Greenlake/Roosevelt Urban Village
Pre-visit Information:
Green Lake and Roosevelt are separate neighborhoods so its hard to find the population of the eastern side​ of Green Lake so I just calculated the population of both neighborhoods. Green Lake has a population has a population of around 10,000 and Roosevelt around 9,000 so the total population of the neighborhoods would be around 19,000. The population of the urban village is around 9,000-10,000. Both neighborhoods have a majority of the population having high education levels with around 80% having bachelors and above. The whole area has good access to Busses and has a Light Rail station in the central area of the Urban Village. The Median age is around 35-45 depending on far you get from the main strip. 80% of the people are white and the both genders are equal. The median house price is around 950,000 and the average income is around 80,000. There is no history of redlining in the area.
Part One:
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The map shown in the top left is the Mercator projection, which is commonly used for navigation because It shows accurate directions and angles. However, it distorts land sizes making some parts of the globe seem bigger than they actually are (for example, Greenland). It gives a good understanding to students of the general shape of the world.
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The map in the top right is the Robinson projection which is a projection that tries to balance size, shape, distance, and proportions. Teaching the Robinson projection is important because of how more realistic the view is compared to other maps like the Mercator projection.
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The map in the bottom right corner is a Dot density map that shows countries with urban populations over 1 million. I think it is important to teach this type of map in schools because it the easiest to visualize from just looking at it. It would train the skill of analyzing trends.
To summarize all 3 maps, there is no relevance to be learning about those topics unless your going into fine focus where you need to study for it. Although it might be funny to look at you don't need any skills to make observations. To be applicable there has to be a relevancy to whatever class is being taught.
