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Grade 6, 1st Quarter:
Western Hemisphere
Overview
In the first quarter of sixth grade, you will
study the Western Hemisphere including the history, geography, civics and
economics of Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the
Caribbean. You will be comparing these countries to the United States and other countries of the Western Hemisphere.
You will also learn important issues and current events that
have shaped political, cultural and economic issues in these
countries.
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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Maps, globes and other geographic tools are
used to acquire process and report information about the past
and present.
- Physical and human characteristics of places
define regions.
- Physical processes shape the earth's surface.
- Resources impact interactions between humans
and their environment.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer
after completing learning activities.
- How can we use geographic tools, to gather and
interpret information about the Western Hemisphere?
- How do physical and human characteristics define and
identify region and place?
- Which physical process has had the greatest impact on
shaping and continuing to shape the earth's surface?
- How do migration and immigration affect the location
and distribution of human activity?
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How have humans modified the
environment?
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What essential information from a
map/globe is needed to acquire, process and report information?
Standards
- Geography Standard 1: Students
know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic
tools to locate and derive information about people, places and
environments.
- Geography Standard 2: Students
know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use
this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of
change.
- Geography Standard 4: Students
understand how economic, political, cultural and social
processes interact to shape patterns of human populations,
interdependence, cooperation and conflict.
- Geography Standard 5: Students
understand the effects of interactions between human and
physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution and
importance of resources.
- Geography Benchmark 1A: Students
know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to
acquire, process, and report information from a spatial
perspective.
- Geography Benchmark 1B: Students develop
knowledge of Earth to locate people, places and environments.
- Geography Benchmark 2A: Students
know the physical and human characteristics of places.
- Geography Benchmark 2B: Students
know how and why people define regions.
- Geography Benchmark 3A: Students know the
physical processes that shape earth's surface patterns.
- Geography Benchmark 4A: Students know the
characteristics, location, distribution and migration of human
populations.
- Geography Benchmark
5B: Students know how physical systems affect
human systems.
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