COURSE DESCRIPTION:
World
Geography is designed to help students understand how events or actions
of people are influenced by physical and cultural geography. This
course involves the study of the five universal themes of geography
including human/environment interactions, location, movement, place,
and regions.
KEY KNOWLEDGE AND APPLICATIONS:
1. Analyze
and interpret the causes and effects of the ever-changing distribution
and migration of human populations on the Earth's surface.
2. Compare
and contrast how physical and cultural geography has influenced and
will continue to influence regional and world issues of the past,
present and future.
3. Apply the five basic themes of geography to examine a current event or issue.
4. Interpret
and convey the interdependence of world peoples to one another and to
their environments through charts, maps, timelines and graphs.
5. Understand the relationship between place, religion, culture, ethnicity and race.
6. Identify how the physical environment is modified by and modifies human activities.
7. Develop a mental map of Minnesota and the world.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS:
Students
will be expected to identify current issues that involve a particular
region, or variety of regions. They will be asked to make, read
maps and graphs; collect and analyze data, and group decision making.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS USED :  | | Geography! We're going places!!! |
World Explorer: Western Hemisphere (2001), Prentice Hall, New Jersey
This section of geography will focus on the
Western Hemisphere regions of the world. They are The United
States, Canada, Central America, and South America.
STUDENTS MATERIALS NEEDED:
A notebook, pencils, blue or black pens, color pencils and a ruler.
Grading Scale: 90-100=A 80-89=B
70-79=C 62-69=D
MAKE-UP WORK: It is the responsibility of the student to get his/her work when absent.
*all tests and quizzes are to be made- up first day back in class.
*all assignments/projects are due the first day back in class.
CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS:
*BE RESPECTFUL!
*BE PROMPT!
*BE PREPARED!
*NO FOOD, DRINK, GUM or LOTION AT ALL TIMES!
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