Assessment – Western Hemisphere Geography PP Eastern Hemisphere Geography Pre/Post Assessment GRADE 7 EASTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY Pacing Calendar 2017-2018 Social Studies Process Skills for Organizing and Analyzing Information Resources, Websites and Activities Process Standards: Graphic Organizers Game Site: I Like to Learn 1. Identify, analyze, and interpret primary Interactive Graphic Organizers and secondary sources and artifacts. Graphic Organizers Print Outs Outline Maps 2. Distinguish between fact and opinion in examining documentary sources Organizing and Analyzing Information Nystrom Desk Atlas including the district website copy 3. Recognize and explain how different GIST Literary Selections/Books correlated to curriculum points of view have been influenced by History Frames (district purchase) History Frame Form social, political, economic, historic and History Frame Pyramid USA Test Prep Mind Maps Websites: 4. Construct timelines of key events, Mind Map Examples for Geography periods, and historically significant Mind Map Forms Mr Roughton Lesson Plans and Resources (New) individuals. One Sentence Summary TED Ed Lessons (New) 5. Explain the relationships between One Word Summary Geography from Tolland Middle School geography and the historical Power Thinking Chart for Geography developments by using maps, graphs, Prediction with Evidence Reynolds Geography Tolland Middle School charts, visual images, and computer- Problem-Solution Chart Think Pair Share Quizlet based technologies. Three Minute Pause Engaging Students with Primary Source Documents 6. Develop discussion, debate, and Three Minute Pause Chart persuasive writing and speaking skills, Analyzing an Historic Event District Geography Power Point Website focusing on enduring issues and APPARTS Geography Power Points demonstrating how divergent viewpoints Five Themes Analysis for Geography have been and continue to be addressed Five Themes Note-taking for Geography Geography Lesson Plans H Diagram Mr. Nussbaum’s Interactive Geography PERSIA Power Point Palooza Writing Literacy: SOAPS Venn Diagram One Sentence Summary Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education Venn Variation One Sentence Summary Frames Venn Diagram Alternative Forms National Geographic Xpeditions One Word Summary Word Splash Quick Writes AAG Association of American Geographers Word Walls Ticket-Out-the-Door Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 1 th Tweet It! Interactive 7 Grade Social Studies RAFT Writing Geography for Kids Resource Site Discovery Geography Geology and Earth Science Projects: Page 43 -– Cereal Box Geography Create a Travel Brochure on a specific country Design a Civilization – Complete Lesson Plan Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 2 1st Nine Weeks Overview August 23 – October 18 Essential Questions 1. What is geography and why is it important? 2. In what ways does geography help us understand our world? 3. How do the five major themes of geography interact with and affect life as we know it? Intro to Geography 4. How are geographic tools used to understand and navigate regions of the world? 5. How do natural resources affect a country’s population distribution and economy? 6. How do different geographic regions affect the way people live, and how do people affect geography? 1. How do different geographic regions affect the way people live, and how do people affect geography? Human Geography 2. Why do people move? 3. How does geography influence the movement of people? 4. How does human migration affect a region? 1. How does culture develop and how does it shape our lives? People and Culture 2. What role does culture play in our daily lives? 3. What happens when cultures collide? Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 3 Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 4 Instructional 1st Nine Weeks Physical Geography August 28- Oct 18 Time: 36 Cur. Map pgs. 4 - 8 August 23 – October 18 Core Concepts days OC3 Content Standards Content Topics Resources/Activities/Essential Questions Five Themes of Geography -- Assessment Nystrom Desk Atlas pages 1—44 CS 1.2: Integrate visual information, draw conclusions, and make predictions from geographic data. Core Concepts Handbook Teacher Resource Book for Core Concepts CS 1.3: Apply the concepts of scale, distance, direction, Pages: 1 - 127 of Pearson relative location, absolute location, and latitude and Printable Maps longitude. Part 1: Tools of Geography – Aug. 28- CS 1.4: Integrate visual information and apply the skill Sept.8 Geography Games (New) of mental … GeoNet Game (New) CS 1.5: Conduct short research projects by 1. Primary Source investigating contemporary events and issues... 2. Secondary Source Websites: 3. Relative Location Geography Sites (New) 4. Absolute Location District Geography Power Point Website 5. Hemisphere Power Point Palooza 6. Latitude OCSS Power Points and Resources 7. Longitude Geography Power Points 8. Scale Geography Lesson Plans (New) 9. Key Geography Resources (New) 10. Compass rose 11. Intermediate directions 12. Cardinal directions (NEW) Activity: Crack the Code 13. Locator map 14. Physical, political, special maps 15. Region Pangaea formed approximately 300 million years ago 16. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and then began to break apart after about 100 million 17. Mental mapping years. Unlike the present Earth, much of the land 18. Distortion mass was in the southern hemisphere. The 19. Projection explanation for Pangaea's formation ushered in the 20. Human-environment interaction modern theory of plate tectonics. 21. Place 22. Location Beginning Activity: Modern Pangaea 23. Movement What if the continents were suddenly smashed back CS 2.5: Explain and summarize how and why regions 24. Region together, forming a modern version of Pangea, change over time through physical and human keeping the same country borders that exist today? processes which operate to modify Earth’s surface Document-Based Assessment – pg. 15 How would this affect international relations? How would this change daily life? What would happen to Part 2: Out Planet, Earth -Sept. 11-Sept. 15 tourism, economies, societies, immigration, and government? Would this be a better or worse version 1. Ring of Fire of the world? 2. Plateau Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 5 3. Revolution Latitude and Longitude for the Classroom 4. Core 5. Erosion 6. Disposition 7. Solstice Document-Based Assessment – pg. 29 Part 3: Climates and Ecosystems– Sept. 18- 22 1. Climate 2. Climagraph 3. Water cycle 4. Ecosystem CS 3.2: Analyze from multiple perspectives the impact 5. Vegetation of natural disasters… 6. Arid and semi-arid CS 5.2.A: Evaluate the effects of human modification of 7. Weathering and adaptation to the natural environment including the 8. Precipitation A. Deforestation of Indonesia’s rainforests, 9. High latitudes Activities 10. Low latitudes 1. Using your mental map, or a map based on your CS 5.1: …describe the distribution of major renewable 11. Altitude memories and experiences, describe your city, and nonrenewable resources… town or neighborhood. Use the five themes of CS 5.2: Evaluate the effects of human modification of Part 3 Assessment- pg. 44 geography in your description. and adaptation to the natural environment… 2. Demonstrate geographic tools by creating your own country. They students will include map keys, compass rose, scale bar and title. Part 4: Human Environment Interaction -- 3. National Geographic Picture of the Day Infer what CS 4.6: Evaluate the effects of human modification of Sept. 25-28 is happening and where it may be, then predict and adaptation to the natural environment… what will happen next. CS 4.4: Compare and contrast the market and 1. Petroleum command economic systems… 2. Spillover CS 4.3: …analyze data used by geographers to measure the human characteristics used to define Document-Based Assessment – pg. 55 developed versus developing countries… Part 5: Economics and Geography – Oct. 2-6 1. Currency 2. Free trade area (zone) 3. Market economy 4. Mixed economy Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 6 5. Economics CS 4.7: Evaluate and summarize the impact of 6. Developed countries geography on population patterns… 7. Developing countries CS 2.1.C: Integrate visual information in order to 8. Supply and demand describe …South Asia… 9. Inflation CS 4.7.A: Evaluate the impact of push and pull factors 10. Tariff on the rural migration to overcrowded urban centers in 11. Trade India,… 12. Embargo Document-Based Assessment – pg. 71 Part 6: Population and Movement – Oct. 9-Oct. 13 1. Population 2. Population growth 3. Migration 4. Migrant 5. Push-pull factors *** A Proportional Perspective of the World’s 6. Population density Spoken 7. Birth rates Languages 8. Infant mortality 9. Literacy rates 10. Death rates 11. Per capita income CS 4.1: Compare and contrast the common cultural 12. Urban and rural traits… CS 4.2: Describe the world’s major religions… Document-Based Assessment – pg. 83 CS 2.2.B.3: Integrate visual information in order to describe cultural hearths… Jones Public Schools—Grade Seven: Eastern Hemisphere Geography Page 7 CS 4.5: Compare and contrast the major political systems… CS 2.4: …analyze reasons for conflict and cooperation among groups, societies, countries, and regions of the Eastern Hemisphere… CS 1.6: Commemorate Celebrate Freedom Week by recognizing the sacrifices and contributions to American freedom