2012-2013 WORLD GEOGRAPHY SCOPE & SEQUENCE



2015-2016 CORE WORLD GEOGRAPHY SCOPE & SEQUENCE

Based MOSTLY upon the Mastering the TEKS in World Geography textbook

Chapter 1

HOUSE KEEPING-ICE BREAKERS ETC-2 DAYS

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY -4 Days

1. 5 themes

a. location (absolute and relative)

b. place

c. region

d. human –environmental interaction

e. movement

2. Types of regions (physical, formal, perceptual)

TEKS: 9a, 9b

UNDERSTANDING and USING MAPS (CHAPTER 1) – 2 Day

1. Key features of maps (title, legend, compass rose, & scale) and types of maps

(Physical, political, historical, thematic, population density, and resource / product

Maps)

2. GIS (page 111) and latitude / longitude

TEKS: 20a, 21a, 22a

GRAPHS / CHARTS / PHOTOGRAPHS / DIAGRAMS / PRIMARY and SECONDARY SOURCES – (CHAPTER 1) 2 Day

1. What charts / photographs / primary and secondary sources / different types of graphs

are used for and how to interpret them

2. How to answer these types of Data Based questions (use specific examples from pages

17 - 30)

3. Examples of test questions and how to answer them / Test Review

Vocabulary: primary sources, secondary sources

TEKS: 21a

CHAPTER 2,and 3 WILL ALSO BE INCORPORATED INTO MULTIPLE CHAPTERS THROUGH OUT THE YEAR-6 DAYS

1. Lithosphere

-Earth’s layers

-plate tectonics (continental drift, types of plate movement, landforms caused by plate

Movement, earthquakes and tsunamis, and volcanoes / Ring of Fire

2. Weathering, erosion, deposition, and soil building

-landforms created by weathering, erosion, and deposition

3. Landforms

4. Hydrosphere

-water cycle

-tides and currents (Gulf Stream)

5. Earth – Sun Relationship / Seasons

-revolution, tilt, equator

6. Atmosphere & climate

-difference between weather and climate

-determining climate (temperature and precipitation)

-factors that affect climate (latitude, elevation, wind patterns, ocean currents, &

Mountain barriers)

-vertical climates

7. Climate regions

-polar

-mountain areas

-tropical

-dry

-mild

-continental

8. Biosphere

-different biomes (temperate deciduous forest, tropical rain forest, grassland,

Savanna / steppes, deserts, and tundra) and how climate influences their location

Vocabulary: tectonic forces, tsunami, weathering, erosion, soil building, deposition, water cycle, aquifer, tides, ocean currents, wind systems, continent, barriers, temperature, precipitation, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, vegetation, climate, elevation, latitude, weather, mantle, biome, grassland, steppe, tundra, savanna, tropical rainforest, landform, continent, subcontinent, peninsula

TEKS: 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a, 4b, 4c, 9a

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (CHAPTER 4) – 16 Days

1. Aspects of Culture

-definition of culture

-customs

-roles

-institutions

2. Cultural perceptions

3. Religion

-definition of religion

-Animism as beginning of religion

4. Rural vs. Urban cultures

-definition of cultural region (from chapter 9)

-traditional culture

5. Family structure and gender roles

-definition of family structure and gender roles

-traditional gender roles

-changing gender roles

6. Multicultural Societies

-definition of multicultural / heterogeneous societies

-definition of homogenous societies

-definition of ethnic group

-definition of minority

-special problems faced by minorities

Vocabulary: culture, cultural region, customs, traditional, religion, animism, gender roles, human adaptation, urban, rural, multicultural / heterogeneous societies, homogenous societies, ethnic group, minority, underrepresented populations, social class, social mobility

TEKS: 5a, 9a, 9b, 16b, 16c, 16d, 17b, 17c, 18c

POPULATION (CHAPTER 4)

1. Population density and population density maps

2. Population pyramids

3. Population growth

TEKS: 7a, 7c

ECONOMICS (CHAPTER 4)

1. Definition of economic development

-more developed

-less developed

-newly industrialized

2. Indicators of development

-HDI

-HDI demographic indicators (expectancy, birth rate, death rate, IMR)

-HDI economic indicators (GDP, GDP per capita, # of cars, # of computers, etc.)

-HDI social indicators (literacy rate, # of doctors and lawyers, # of college graduates,

access to sanitation, etc.)

-HDI political indicators (degree of democracy and voting rights, types of freedoms,

degree of government oppression, etc.)

Vocabulary: Levels of economic development, demographic indicators, standard of living, human development index (HDI), economic activities, less developed, newly industrialized, more developed, GDP, GDP per capita, infant mortality rate, IMR, life expectancy, literacy rate

TEKS: 5b, 10

Chapter 4 continued: Types of government

Know different types of government and how they may influence culture

1. Definition of government and its purpose

2. Monarchy

-constitutional monarchy

3. Republic

4. Theocracy

5. Dictatorship

6. Totalitarianism

7. Democracy

-direct democracy AND representative democracy

Introduce U.S Constitution/Bill of Rights

(CHAPTER 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) SW ASIA & N. AFRICA - 18 Days

1. Physical Geography

-significance of Fertile Crescent, Sahara Desert, and Nile river

-lack of water resources / desalinization

-oil wealth and changes it has brought (Dubai as prime example)

2. Judaism

3. Christianity

4. Stereotypes / prejudices

5. Islam

-30 Days episode on Islam

6

13. Impact of cultural beliefs in government decision-making

-Taliban / Sharia Law

-few rights for women

14. Patriotism and nationalism government decision-making

15. Citizenship practices in different forms of government

-Iran’s theocracy

-Saudi Arabia’s monarchy

-lack of central government and citizen participation in Afghanistan

16. Different viewpoints on international issues

-Israel vs. Palestine

-use of terrorism to sway government decision-making / Al Qaeda

Vocabulary: government, Monarchy, Constitutional monarchy, Republic, Democracy, Direct democracy, Representative democracy, Dictatorship, Totalitarianism, Theocracy, local, state, national, international, citizenship, government policy, point of view, cultural beliefs, patriotism, nationalism, terrorism, stereotype, prejudice

TEKS: 2a, 5a, 6b, 9a, 12a, 12b, 14b, 15a, 15b, 16c, 17a, 17b, 17c, 18b, 19b, 21b, 23b

HISTORICAL CHANGE (CHAPTER 10, 11, 12, 13, 14): EUROPE – 18 Days

1. Europe as “The peninsula of peninsulas,” the importance of the Alps, the many rivers,

North Atlantic Drift, Northern European Plain, and polders / dikes

2. Changes in physical geography

3. Changes in human geography

-definition of traditional societies

4. Causes of change in human geography

-Europe’s colonization of the world

-migration and its effects (Muslim immigration into Europe and native Europe’s

declining birth rate)

-cultural diffusion and its effects

-trade and its effects

-technological innovations (printing press, steam boats, railroads, automobiles,

acquiring energy resources, information technologies, GPS, GIS, air conditioning,

desalinization, modern agriculture, modern trade, and modern medicine)

-conflict (civil war, genocide, and international war – competition for wealth and

resources, conflicts over ideals, and terrorism) and its effects

-Europe’s long history of conflict / war

-European Union as a solution to avoid conflict and create a more stable Europe

5. Distribution of power

-idea of “balance of power” among nations

-factors of power

-the United Nations

Vocabulary: traditional society, cultural diffusion, genocide, terrorism, technological innovation, GPS, GIS, desalinization

TEKS: 2a, 2b, 8a, 9a, 18a, 18b, 18c, 19a, 19b, 19c, 20a, 20b

NATIONS: BORDERS & POWER (CHAPTER 14): RUSSIA & the REPUBLICS – 6 Days

1. Physical Geography

-importance of Ural Mountains (border between Europe and Asia) and Lake Baikal,

shrinking Aral Sea

2. History of Russia / Soviet Union

-communism / communist economy

-Cold War

-reasons the Soviet Union collapsed

3. Political regions

-determining borders between nations (Soviet Union’s expansion as an example)

Vocabulary: man-made borders, natural borders, political boundaries, political power, TEKS: 9a, 13a, 14a, 14c

: RUSSIA & the REPUBLICS CONTINUED

1. Definition of economic system

2. Free enterprise system

-supply and demand

-role of the government

-commercial agriculture

-commercial industry

3. Communism

-role of government

4. Socialism

-role of government

-examples (Sweden)

5. Mixed economies

-economic spectrum between free enterprise and communist

Vocabulary: basic needs, economics, economic system, scarcity, traditional economy, subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, cottage industry, commercial industry, free enterprise system, profit, supply and demand, communist economy, socialist economy, mixed economy, economic spectrum

TEKS: 10a, 10b, 10c

political region, political unit, sovereign government, international relations, balance of power, United Nations, European Union

END OF FIRST SEMESTER!!!!

DEMOGRAPHY, UNIT 3 (CHAPTER 5, 6 ): NORTH AMERICA – 15 Days

1. Physical Geography

-formation, location, importance of Mississippi Delta, Appalachian Mts., Rocky Mts.,

Great Plains, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Colorado River

-function and importance of Hoover Dam

-importance of agriculture

-Irrigation; definition and examples

2. Factors influencing where people settle / where European immigrants settled

-physical factors

-climate factors

-human factors

-changes in settlement patterns (from East to South and West, how transportation/

interstate highways/ railroads/ Mississippi River led to the changes)

3. Beginning of urban populations

4. Urbanization

-urban vs. rural

-where cities tend to be established and why

-impact of Industrial Revolution on urbanization

-other reasons for urban growth (cities)

-urban sprawl

Vocabulary: delta, irrigation, agriculture, demography, rural, urban, urbanization, settlement patterns, birthrate, mortality rate, infant mortality rate, population growth rate, population density, population pyramids, population density, carrying capacity

TEKS: 6a, 6b, 8a, 9a, 12a,

MIGRATION NORTH AMERICA

1. definition of migrate

2. push and pull factors

3. Factors leading to migration

-social factors

-political factors

-economic factors

-environmental factors

4. How physical geography affects the flow of migration

-physical barriers (mountains, deserts, dense forests)

5. Illegal immigration

-compare state voting maps on issue of illegal immigration

Vocabulary: migration, push factors, pull factors, social features, ethnicity, ethnic persecution / cleansing, religious persecution, genocide

TEKS: 1a, 7b, 13b, 17d, 18

-other reasons for urban growth (cities)

-urban sprawl

Vocabulary: delta, irrigation, agriculture, demography, rural, urban, urbanization, settlement patterns, birthrate, mortality rate, infant mortality rate, population growth rate, population density, population pyramids, population density, carrying capacity

TEKS: 6a, 6b, 8a, 9a, 12a,

CULTURAL CHANGE (CHAPTER 7,8,9): LATIN AMERICA – 15 Days

1. Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Central America, and South America

2. Definition of cultural diffusion

3. Examples of cultural diffusion

-spread of new products (Columbian exchange case study, NAFTA as today’s version

of the Columbian exchange

-spread of new ideas (religion & democracy)

4. Spread of cultural traits

-define cultural trait

5. Spread of disease: pandemics

-definition of pandemic

-Spread of Old World diseases to the Americas case study

-H1N1 (Swine flu)

6. Cultural Divergence

-definition of cultural divergence

-reasons for cultural divergence

7. Cultural Convergence

-definition of cultural convergence

-globalization & examples (democratic ideas, English language, new technologies, and

certain sports)

Vocabulary: cultural trait, cultural diffusion, spatial exchange / diffusion, Columbian exchange, cultural convergence, cultural divergence, pandemic, innovation

TEKS: 1b, 2a, 7d, 9a, 16a, 17a, 18a, 18d

PEOPLE & NATURE (CHAPTER 7,8,9) : LATIN AMERICA

1. Physical Geography

-importance of Amazon Rainforest, Amazon River, Amazon Basin

2. Human-Environment Interaction

-how the environment affects people (bodies of water, landforms, climate, plant and

animal life, and seismic activity)

- adapting to life in Andes Mountains and Amazon Rainforest

-how people modify the environment (agriculture, urban growth, dams, & energy)

-slash-and-burn farming in the Amazon Rainforest

-the role of culture and technology in modifying the environment

3. Extreme weather and natural disasters

-hurricanes

-floods

-droughts

-El Nino and La Nina

-human responses to extreme weather and natural disasters (GIS)

4. Pollution

-climate change

-ozone depletion

-pesticides and fertilizers

-acid rain

-water pollution and consumption

5. Depletion of natural resources

6. Destruction of natural habitats

7. Search for sustainable development

Vocabulary: agriculture, tsunami, El Nino, La Nina, renewable resource, non-renewable resource, climate change, acid rain, sustainable development, rainforest, river basin,

TEKS: 2b, 8a, 8b, 8c, 9a, 12b, 19c, 23b

(CHAPTERS 20, 21, 22, 23,24): SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA – 15 Days

1. Physical geography

-how non-navigable rivers, deserts, rainforest, and the Great Rift Valley create

transportation difficulties / lack of economic development

-Sahel / desertification

-vast natural resources

2. Review levels of economic development and indicators of economic development

3. Traditional economy

-subsistence agriculture

-cottage industry

4. Types of economic activities

-primary

-secondary

-tertiary

-quaternary

5. History of colonialism as a major reason for lack of economic development

6. Civil war / ethnic conflict and disease as a major reason for lack of economic

development

-diamond wars / oil wars

-Sudan / Darfur genocide (Searching for Jacob, CBS online video)

7. Disease as a major reason for lack of economic development

-impact of AIDS, malaria, etc.

8. *If time permits, Guns, Germs, and Steel, episode 3

-to wrap up the unit / a unit summary

Vocabulary: Levels of economic development, demographic indicators, standard of living, human development index (HDI), economic activities, less developed, newly industrialized, more developed, GDP, GDP per capita, infant mortality rate, IMR, life expectancy, literacy rate, primary activities, secondary activities, tertiary activities, quaternary activities, traditional economy, colonialism

TEKS: 2a, 5a, 5b, 9a, 10c, 11a, 14a, 14c, 17a, 18a, 18b, 18c

(CHAPTER 28-31 ): EAST ASIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA – 20 Days

1. Physical geography of East and SE Asia

-location of major mountains and rivers

-Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River

2. How geography influences the location of economic activities

-how physical barriers like mountains and natural trade routes affect the location of

economic activities

-how the location of natural resources affects the location of economic activities

-how climate affects the location of economic activities

-how human resources affects the location of economic activities

-how infrastructure affects the location of economic activities

-how the location of consumers affects the location of economic activities

3. Effects of changes in geography on the location of economic activities

-changes in climate

-changes in resources

-changes in infrastructure

4. Trade

-definition of trade

-how the uneven distribution of productive resources leads to trade between countries

(examples such as oil and human resources)

-role of specialization in trade (imports and exports. Japan as an example)

5. Brief history of global trade patterns

-Silk Road

-closing off trade with the West

-Modern times

6. Challenges of Globalization

-offshoring and outsourcing

-definition of globalization

-causes of globalization (lowering of trade barriers, rise of free trade, spread of

information technologies, transportation improvements, outsourcing and offshoring)

-benefits of globalization (the “Japanese Miracle”)

-costs of globalization

7. North Korea and South Korea

-history, reasons for different governments / economies

-economic conditions in North Korea today (Lisa Ling’s Inside North Korea video)

8. Population

-1 billion in China, effects of 1 child policy in China

-effects of high population density in Japan

9. Buddhism

-persecution of Tibetans by Chinese government

Vocabulary: globalization, interdependent, outsourcing, human resources, capital resources, infrastructure, manufacturing, products, agriculture, services, entrepreneurship, productive resources, specialization, comparative advantage, export, import, protective tariff, free trade zone, outsourcing, scarcity, regulations

TEKS: 1b, 7a, 7c, 7d, 8a, 9a, 10d, 11b, 11c, 12a, 16a, 17b, 18a, 19a

----EAST ASIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA TEST / PHYSICAL MAP OF SOUTH ASIA---- 1 Day

SOUTH ASIA (INDIA)(CHAPTER 25,26,27)– 8 Days

1. Physical geography

-Importance of Himalayas, Indo-Gangetic Plain, Indus River / Kashmir, review rain

Shadow

2. Climate

-monsoons and their effects on India and Bangladesh

-review different climate regions

3. Hinduism / Sikhism

-importance of Ganges River

-Caste system

4. History of Colonialism

-Gandhi and independence

-formation of Pakistan as a homeland for Muslims

5. *If time permits, Outsourcing / growth of India’s industry and economy

-30 Days episode on Outsoucing

-review key themes of globalization from EAST ASIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA

Unit

-Pennies A Day video

7. REVIEW OF OTHER KEY CONCEPTS

-key vocabulary

-culture, chapters 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7

-economy, chapters 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4

Vocabulary: Hinduism, Sikhism, monsoon, colonialism, caste system

TEKS: 2a, 4a, 4b, 9a, 10d, 17b, 17c

AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA CHAPTER 32-33 – 4 Days

1. Physical geography

-significance of Great Barrier Reef, Outback, and Ayers Rock

2. History and culture of Aboriginals

-“Stolen Generation”

3. Have groups plan and complete a research project

-pollution of oceans, “Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?”

-bleaching of coral reefs / protecting the Great Barrier Reef?

Vocabulary:

TEKS: 2a, 9a, 18b, 18c, 22b, 22c, 22d, 22e, 23a, 23c

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