Standard #3: Students apply geographic knowledge and skills (e.g., location, place,
human/environment interactions, movement, and regions). These Five Fundamental
Themes in Geography are carefully integrated in every chapter of the text. Students
gather information from maps, globes, photos, graphs, charts, and videos. Through
writing to international pen pals, students describe their region, location, place,
movement and history, and local economies and human-environment interaction in
lifestyles. Students witness changes in road use, industrial growth/failure, population
changes, and movement. The future is projected.
Standard #4: Students demonstrate an understanding of the effects of time,
continuity, and change on historical and future perspectives and relationships.
Throughout the year, we examine traditions and holidays and their cultural origins which
often date back thousands of years. Through biographies, the newspaper, historical
fiction, and realistic fiction, students gain insight into historical events in world history
and the people who were instrumental in creating change as well as those affected by it.
The arts are included, also, as reflective of social movement and change as well as
cultural continuity.
Standard #5~ Students make informed decisions based on an understanding of the
economic principles of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption. In
every unit of study, economy is very specifically addressed. A poor supply of natural
resources can result in a struggling economy. We view how nations like Japan realize an
economic miracle by using resourcefully people, education, and technology. The class
examines from where commonly used goods come and analyze their cost to the
consumer. Labor costs, transportation, supply, demand, and cultural factors are
discussed.
Standard #6: Students demonstrate an understanding of the impact of human
interaction and cultural diversity on societies. Throughout this course on World
Geography, cultural diversity is celebrated as is the uniqueness of each person and his or
her contribution to the planet. In each region studied, we experience cultural borrowing
through foods, the arts, artifacts, literature, music, and religion. Traditional outfits,
beliefs, holidays, legends, languages, and racial and ethnic groups are introduced. Non-
discrimination is threaded throughout the course.
School-To-Work Obiectives:
Students learn about their own values and career options worldwide and locally.
The skills of obtaining information, analyzing and interpreting facts, and applying them
to any workplace is stressed. Excellence is encouraged.
TechnoloQ:v Integration:
StudentS have the opportunity to use computer technology for research reports
and oral presentations. Individually, students explore areas of interest and/or current
events topics on the classroom computer.
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