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Geography: People/Places 1, Quarter 2
Overview
Students investigate forces that affect the movement of people,
including migration, immigration and diffusion. Human characteristics of
place, including human features, religion, government, language, etc in
different regions are explored. Modification, adaptation, dependence,
resources, and development of lands
and spaces allow students to gain knowledge of people,
places, and environments.
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Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
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Human migration impacts cultural development of societies.
- Human and physical systems interact and impact one another.
- Changes that occur in the meaning, use, location,
distribution, and importance of resources affect human and physical
systems
- Understanding the past, present and future requires
knowledge of people, places, and environments.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- What are the human characteristics that give a
place meaning?
- Why do people move?
- How
do people modify/adapt and/or depend upon the physical environment?
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How
has technology expanded human capacity to modify the environment?
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How do societies value and use
Earth’s natural resource?
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Why are ecosystems important
in understanding the environment?[extended]
Standards and Benchmarks
Standard
G4: Students
understand how economic, political, cultural and social processes interact
to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence,
cooperation, and conflict.
Benchmark A: Students understand how economic, political, cultural and
social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations,
interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
Benchmark B: Students know the nature and spatial
distribution of cultural patterns.
Benchmark C: Students know the patterns and networks
of economic interdependence.
Benchmark D:
Students know the processes, patterns, and
functions and human settlement.
Benchmark E: Students know how cooperation and
conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth’s surface.
Standard
G5:
Students understand the effects of interactions between human
and physical systems and
changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Benchmark A: Students know how human actions modify
the physical environment.
Benchmark B: Students
know how physical systems affect human systems.
Benchmark C: Students know the changes that occur in
the meaning, use, location, distribution, and importance of resources.
Standard G6:
Students apply knowledge of people, places, and
environments to understand the past and present and to plan for the
future.
Benchmark A:
Students know how to apply geography to
understand the past.
Benchmark B: Students know how to apply geography to
understand the present and plan for the future. |
