CHS World Studies Hybrid 2014-15

Spatial Interaction (Movement & Migration)

1. Activity Space Map Analysis
a. Draw boundaries or radii (miles from home) that show the outer limits
of your weekly activity space.
b. Discuss how the three variables affecting activity space affect you and
your familys trips.
i. Stage in life
ii. Mobility ability to travel
iii. Awareness space knowledge of opportunities
c. After examining your total activity space, discuss the merits of
increasing or decreasing activity space.
2. Choose a local business and issue a brief report addressing the probability of
spatial interaction.
a. Illustrate and describe the distance decay curve that would be most
appropriate.
b. Explain the gravity model and Reillys law of Retail Gravitation.
Discuss their applicability to the business.
c. Give examples of movement biases that may flow contrary to modeled
predictions.
3. Place perception stereotype or reality?
a. Think of a place (city, state, country, region) that you would not want
to live for a specific reason(s).
b. Investigate and find statistics and/or evidence to substantiate or
disprove your perception. Was your initial perception a stereotype or
reality or somewhere in between? Explain.
4. Watch one episode (jobs, refugees or enforcement) of Homeland: Immigration
in America.
a. Be able to describe the challenges immigrants face in one of those
areas in class.
5. Post to your website before Tuesday, 2/24.
Home---2.2 miles-------School----------7.7 miles--------------Caribou
Coffee-------------------------------------------------49
miles---------------------------------------------------------Gustavus (occasionally)

1b. The stage of life that my family is in includes me having a job, at Caribou to help
pay for college, I go to school everyday, and occasionally maybe once or twice
every other week we drive to St. Peter to visit my brother or he comes home for
different family events. We are very mobile, with everyone able to drive and has a
car. We have the ability to drive and are aware of our surroundings with where
things are and the time/ability to get there.
1c. I dont think I would want to decrease or increase activity space, because by
having a job that is outside my usual community, I see different people and
experience different things. My activity space will decrease next year because I will
be in one town for college and not move a lot from there.

CHS World Studies Hybrid 2014-15

Spatial Interaction (Movement & Migration)
2a. The farther away you are from a business the less likely you
are to go to it. Local Business: Noodles and Company, Eden
Prairie.
2b. The gravity model predicts bilateral trade flows based on
economic sizes. Reillys law of Retail Gravitation describes how
consumers will travel farther distances to larger places.
2c. The weather, road construction/conditions, traffic.
3a. I would not want to live would be South Chicago. This is because of the high
crime rates and sketchiness of that side of town.
3b. Just in the last month there have been 30 reports of violent crimes, 71 property
crimes, and 80 quality of life crimes. Yes my initial stereotype was spot on.