USD 263-MULVANE SCHOOL DISTRICT

CURRICULUM MAP

SOCIAL SCIENCE-7th Grade Geography


OUTCOME/ ESSENTIAL QUESTION

 

CONTENT

 

OBJECTIVE/SKILL

 

ASSESSMENT

 

1. What are major political and physical features of Western Hemisphere?
2. How do physical systems and processes shape the earth's surface?
3. How are human interdependence upon economic, cultural, and social factors influenced by geography?
 
1. Study of South America
2. Maps, graphs, and charts-interpretive skills
3. Text and research material
 
2. Explain how earth-sun relationship affects the physical process on earth to create physical patterns. Show various directions on map. Use basic key on map or globe. Use and identify types of maps and globes. Use scale to determine distance between two points. Locate places on a map using latitude and longitude. Read and interpret graphs, maps, charts, and keys. Recognize continents, countries, oceans. (G1I1, G1I2, G1I3, G1I4, G1I5)
 
Map tests
Question and answer exams
Projects- individual and group-research project
Research
Writing
Individual mapping exercises
 
1. What are major political and physical features of Western Hemisphere?
2. How do physical systems shape the earth's surface?
3. How does human interdependence cooperation and conflict-treaties and wars, determined by and what is the influence of geography?
 
1. Study of South America, Central America
2.
3.World interdependence
 
1. List and discuss effects of industry and agriculture on various regions. Explain the effect of a "label" on the image of a region. (G2I2, G2I3, G2I5)
2. Patterns in physical environment in terms of process (rain forest, etc.) Shifting cultivations, deforestation, overpopulation, and desertification. (G3I1, G3I2, G3I5)
3. Use of demographics- explain primary geographic causes of trade. (G4I1, G4I4)
 
Test- oral and written
Projects- written
Map interpretation
 
1. How do humans and the environment interact?
 
1. Central America, Canada
2. Research graphs and charts- current events, news, and class discussion
 
1. Geographic interdependence, distribution of natural resources, development of trade networks (G4I4)
2. Evaluation of varying viewpoints, resource use and abuse, transportation, agriculture (G5I4, G5I5)
 
Test- oral and written
Projects- written
Map interpretation
 
1. How do humans and the environment interact?
 
1. Canada
 
1. Geographic interdependence, distribution of natural resources, development of trade networks. Evaluation of varying viewpoints, resource use and abuse, transportation, agriculture (G5I4, G5I5)
 
Test- oral and written
Projects- written
Map interpretation