Aerial Photo Project. **You will be working with your lab partner and mapping out the various land use from the aerial photo you are working with.

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1 Aerial Photo Project Using the categories of land use we have been learning about, you will now expand that knowledge and apply it to our community. This project has two distinct parts. Part A (Lab partners working together) **You will be working with your lab partner and mapping out the various land use from the aerial photo you are working with. To begin, lay the grid on the picture and for each square assign it to a category depending on what the land use is used for. Remember the six categories of land are rangeland, forest land, cropland, parks and preserves, urban land, and other (wetlands, mountains, deserts, and other). Because you will be working with the different categories, please have 6 different colors on your grid. The color coding system should be clearly labeled on your sheet. **Once this is completed, make a pie chart with the breakdown of land use from your photo. Please see Step by Step: Pie Chart Made Easy on reminders of how to make a pie chart. (Computer generated pie chart is acceptable). **In addition, please answer the questions provided with each photo.

2 Part B (INDIVIDUAL WORK) **After you have looked over the aerial photos and broken the land use down, you will begin part B. You work in a firm as a marketer. Your firm has just landed a new client, the citizens of Riner. The citizens of Riner want to promote more individuals to move to the area. You have been hired, due to wonderful marketing skills, to create a brochure that will be handed out to potential new community members. Your brochure should be six panels. Your client has requested below the minimum requirements and information for each panel. As the marketer, however, you may add your own personal flare. In addition, if you feel there should be additional information, feel free to add that as well. Remember, these will be handed out to new potential clients. Therefore, the brochure should reflect the highest caliber of work. It should also, as in any marketing campaign, have a positive feel for the community. Hint: A great computer program that you can use is Microsoft Publisher. Panel 1: Title Page. Here the new potential citizens will see the name of the town you are promoting (AKA, Riner, Virginia). In addition, please place some sort of picture or interesting caption on the front page. This is what draws your potential new community members to want to read more. Panel 2: Benefits of living in Riner. This is the point you sell the area of Riner to a new potential community member. Many people are interested in the schools of an area, so information on that would be great. Also, many want to know about public services provided for the community. Are there any unique events that occur that may draw a person to live in one place over another? Explain those events here. Panel 3: History of Riner. Anyone who moves to a new area will want to know a bit of history. Remember, to keep it positive and truthful. Hint: You may want to visit the museum.

3 Panel 4: How Riner is changing. Your chart should go here showing the land use breakdown that you did from PART A. Make comparisons here to the national land chart seen on page 355 in your book. In addition, any additional statistics should go here to convince another person to move to the area. Panel 5: Testimonials Interview local residents place 2 or 3 of these positive comments on this page. Again, your goal is to get more people to move here. If you have negative comments on this page you are not achieving your goal. HINT: You may want to visit the museum for more information. Panel 6: Contact information. Your marketing firm, (AKA your name) should be found on this page. In addition, if you want to add any contact information, it would go here. Any closing ideas or thoughts should also be found on this page. Grading Part A The grid filled out is worth 20 points. The pie chart is worth 20 points. Answering the questions is worth 10 points. Part B The rubric provided is how your pamphlet will be graded. This is worth 100 points.

4 Pie charts are an easy way to visualize percentages. Steps 1. Organize your information. First gather your data/info. 2. Add it all together. Add all of the numbers to get a denominator. 3. Then find the numerator. Find the numerators by taking each part of the data, these are your numerators. 4. Convert your fractions to a decimal. Divide your numerator by your denominator. 5. Convert the decimal to a percent. Move the decimal two places to the right. 6. Find the angle. Multiply the decimal by 360 (degrees in a circle), or multiply the percent by 3.60 to get an angle. 7. Use a mathematical compass to draw a circle. If you don't have a compass, try tracing something round such as a lid or a CD. 8. Draw the radius. Start in the exact center of the circle and draw a radius to the outside of it. ( Hint: Make a dot with the compass to find the center.) 9. Place your protractor on the circle. Place your protractor on the circle so that the 90 degrees are directly above the center of the circle.

5 10. Draw each section. Draw the sections by using the angles you got in step six. Each time you add a section the radius changes to the line you just drew.