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GIS Geography: Course Overview
Course Number: SS.GISGEO
Overview
GIS Geography is designed to use Geographic
Information System software (GIS) and computers as tools to analyze data
to solve geographic problems. The course will focus on physical
geography and the interaction of people with their environment using GIS
software several times each week as an integral part of the course to
work with the five themes of geography: location, place, region,
movement, and human environment interaction. Technological skills taught
include how to organize and analyze large datasets, how to input data,
store, how to output data, and how to present solutions to geographic
inquiries.
Prerequisite: None
Course Length: 2 Period Length: 1 Grade Level: 9-12
Credit per Semester: 1
Additional Credit Information: Credits per Semester:1.0 (Social Studies,
Humanities or Elective)
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Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Geographic tools are used to locate and
derive information about the past.
- People and events are organized
chronologically to increase understanding of historical relationships.
- Technological developments have impacted
individuals and societies throughout history.
- Primary and secondary sources and
processes of historical inquiry allow for interpreting the past and
analyzing present day issues.
- Physical and human characteristics of
places define regions.
- Knowledge of geography increases
understanding of past and present.
- Maps, globes, and other geographic tools
are used to acquire, process and report information about the past and
present.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- How can we use geographic and historical
tools to interpret information about the past? How do physical and human
characteristics define and identify region and place?
- How did technological developments
change lifestyles?
- How did the physical characteristics of
regions influence human characteristics?
- How did human characteristics help to
shape a region?
Standards and Benchmarks
STANDARD Geography 1: Students know how to use and construct maps,
globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about
people, places, and environments.
STANDARD Geography 2: Students know the physical and human
characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study
regions and their patterns of change.
Benchmark G1 C: Students know how to analyze the spatial
organization of people, places, and environments.
Benchmark G2 C: Students know how culture and experience influence people's
perceptions of places and regions.
STANDARD Geography 4: Students understand how economic, political,
cultural and social processes interact to shape patterns of human
populations, interdependence, cooperation and conflict.
Benchmark G4 D: Students know the processes, patterns, and functions of
human settlement.
Benchmark H2 A: Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses
regarding what happened in the past and how to obtain and analyze historical
data to answer questions and test hypotheses.
STANDARD Geography 5: Students understand the effects of interactions
between human and physical systems and changes in meaning, use,
distribution, and importance of resources.
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