Geography enables the student to see, understand and
appreciate the web of relationships between people, places,
and environments. The student will use the knowledge,
skills, and understanding of concepts within the six
essential elements of geography: world in spatial terms,
places and regions, physical systems, human systems,
environment and society, and the use of geography.
Use absolute and relative
locations to identify places on a map (i.e., north, south,
east, west, borders, lines of longitude and latitude, the
equator, and the north and south poles.)
Identify basic components of
earth’s systems (i.e., landforms, water, climate, and
weather).
The Earth’s Big Features
A
Differentiate the
distinguishing characteristics of ecosystems (i.e., deserts,
grasslands, and rainforests).
Ecosystems
A
Recognize the identifying
characteristics of certain geographic features (i.e.,
peninsula, islands, continents, mountains, rivers, deserts,
oceans, and forests).
Determine similarities and
differences in the ways different cultural groups address
basic human needs (i.e., food, water, clothing, and shelter)
by interpreting pictures.
Culture Quest
Identify and use key
geographical features on maps (i.e., mountains, rivers,
plains, valleys, and forests).
Mapping It Out (PowerPoint)
A
Identify on a map the routes
of Americas’ explorers (i.e., Columbus, Balboa, Pizarro, and
Desoto).
Enchanted Learning-Routes
A
Use latitude and longitude to
identify major North American cities on a map (i.e., Boston, Mexico City, Toronto, Charleston, Savannah,
Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Sante Fe, and Los Angeles).
Explain how physical and human
characteristics of places and regions within the state and
the United States developed.
A
Recognize the reasons
settlements are founded on major river systems. (i.e.,
transportation, manmade boundaries, and food and water
sources).
Rivers- the basics
Rivers & Coasts
A
Determine how physical
processes shape the United States' features and patterns
(i.e., erosion, volcanoes, plate tectonics, and flooding).
Locate
continents and significant bodies of water (i.e., the Great
Lakes, Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific Oceans, Columbia,
Missouri, Colorado, Rio Grande, Ohio, Tennessee, St.
Lawrence and Mississippi Rivers).
Identify the basic components of a world map (i.e., compass
rose, map key, scale, latitude and longitude lines,
continents, and oceans).
M
Identify the locations of certain physical and human
features and events on maps and globes.
A
Identify basic geographic forms (i.e., rivers, lakes, bays,
oceans, mountains, plateaus, deserts, plains, and coastal
plains).
M
Identify the location of
earth’s major landforms such as continents, islands,
mountain ranges, and major bodies of water such as the
oceans, seas, rivers, and gulfs.
A
Use
a variety of maps to understand geographic and historical
information (i.e., political maps, resource maps, product
maps, physical maps, climate maps, and vegetation maps).
M
Describe the location of
major physical characteristics such as landforms, climate,
soils, water, features, vegetation, resources, and animal
life; and human characteristics such as language groups,
religions, political systems, economic systems, and
population centers in the world.
D
Explain how and why the
location of geographic features both physical and human in
the world change over time and space.
A
Recognize
reasons that cultural groups develop or settle in specific
physical environments.
A
Identify the location of
early civilizations on a map (i.e., Mesopotamian, Egyptian,
Ancient Chinese, and Indian).
D
Identify concepts that
define and describe spatial organization such as location,
distance, direction, scale, movement, and region.
D
Explain how changing technology such as transportation and
communication technology affect spatial relationships.
D
Describe how physical and human processes shape the
characteristics of a place.
D
Explain how technology shapes the physical and human
characteristics of places.
D
Explain why places have specific physical and human
characteristics in different parts of the world.
A
Recognize the basic components of culture (i.e., language,
common values, traditions, government, art, literature, and
lifestyles).
A
Identify geographic reasons for the location of population
centers prior to 1500 (i.e., coastal plains, deserts,
mountains, and river valleys).
A
Interpret a graph that illustrates a major trend in world
history (i.e., population growth, economic development,
governance land areas, and growth of religions).
A
Recognize how migration and cultural diffusion influenced
the character of world societies (i.e., spread of religions,
empire building, exploration, and languages).
Locate on map specific lines of longitude and latitude.
(i.e., Prime Meridian, International Date Line, Equator,
North and South Poles, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and
Arctic Antarctic Circles).
Discuss applications of
current geographic techniques in mapping such as GIS and
GPS.
M
Identify the location of
the earth’s major physical characteristics such as
continents, landforms, bodies of water, climate regions,
vegetation, and natural resources.
A
Identify the major river systems of Tennessee.
A
Select the natural resources found in the 3 grand divisions
of Tennessee (coal, copper, timber, plants, and animals.)
A
Identify the location of the earth's major landforms and
bodies of water (i.e., Rockies, Andes, Himalayas, Alps, Urals,
Sahara desert, NileRiver Valley, Great Plains, Mississippi River,
Amazon River, Thames River, SeineRiver, RhineRiver, Danube River, Tigris
River, Eurphrates River, Ganges River, VolgaRiver, and Yellow River).
Identify the six physical regions of Tennessee (i.e., Unaka
Mountains, Valley and Ridge, Cumberland Plateau, Highland
Rim, Central Basin, and Gulf Coastal Plain).
M
Identify the location
and size of major human features such as cities, political
units, and countries.
A
Distinguish the differences among rural, suburban, and urban
communities.
M
Explain why physical,
biological, and human processes leave discernable patterns
on the earth’s surface locally, regionally, and globally.
M
Identify the spatial
distribution of major ecosystems such as tropical
rainforest, desert, and grassland.
A
Identify the characteristics that define a region
geographically.
Identify concepts and
geographic tools used to define and describe spatial
organization such as absolute and relative location,
distance, direction, scale, movement, and region.
M
Explain patterns of
spatial organization including why some areas are more
densely settled than others and the differences between
rural, urban, and suburban patterns.
A
Define demographic concepts. (i.e., population, population
distribution, population density, and growth rate).
A
Compare the five largest cities of Tennessee using a bar
graph.
M
Describe factors that
affect spatial organization of the earth’s surface such as
transportation, migration, and communication technology.
M
Identify which features
on the earth’s surface are physical and which are human.
A
Recognize specific physical processes that operate on the
earth’s surface (i.e., erosion, volcanoes, earthquakes, wind
and water currents, plate tectonics, and weathering).
Describe how physical,
biological, and human characteristics and processes define
and shape a place.
M
Describe how human
movement and migration influence the character of a place.
M
Appraise the symbiotic
relationship between the physical and human environments as
they are reflected on the earth’s surface.
M
Identify the criteria
used to define a region, including physical traits and
formal, functional, and vernacular cultural regions.
M
Describe types of
regions at the local, regional, and global level.
M
Describe how cultures
influence the characteristics of regions and how human
characteristics make specific regions of the world
distinctive.
M
Explain factors that
contribute to changing regional characteristics and
boundaries.
M
Identify types of the
earth’s physical processes such as tectonic activity, and
changing landforms.
M
Consider the effect of
weathering and erosion, the hydrologic cycle and climate
change.
M
Analyze physical
patterns and ecosystems found locally, regionally, and
globally.
M
Examine the consequences
of a specific physical process operating on the earth’s
surface.
M
Describe how the
characteristics of different physical environments affect
human activities including ways in which people adapt to
living in different physical environments.
M
Describe the impact and
interaction of natural hazards and disasters on human
settlements and systems.
M
Evaluate the limits and
opportunities of physical environments for human activities.
M
Describe effects of
human modification on the physical environment including
global warming, deforestation, desertification, and
urbanization.
M
Explain the ways in
which human induced changes in the physical environment in
one place can cause changes in other places.
M
Analyze the
environmental consequences of humans changing the physical
environment.
A
Recognize the definitions of modifications on the physical
environment (i.e., global warming, deforestation, desert,
and urbanization).
A
Analyze the environmental consequences of humans changing
their physical environment (i.e., air and water pollution,
mining, deforestation, and global warming).
M
Identify the
characteristics of populations at a variety of scales
including ethnicity, age distribution, number of males and
females, and life expectancy.
A
Interpret a population pyramid.
M
Define demographic
concepts including population, population distribution,
population density, growth rate, family size, and infant
mortality.
A
Define demographic concepts (i.e., population, population
distribution, population density, growth rate, family size,
and infant mortality).
A
Recognize cultural definitions (i.e., language, religion,
customs, political system, and economic system.
A
Locate cultural information on a thematic map (i.e.,
languages, political systems, economic systems, and
religions).
M
Describe the causes and effects of human
migration such as "push and pull" factors.
M
Analyze contemporary population issues.
A
Predict the consequences of population changes on the
Earth’s physical and cultural environments (I.e., air and
water pollution, mining, deforestation, and global).
A
View and discuss a show which shows a diverse global
culture.
Locate major countries
and regions of the world on a map or globe focusing on those
countries and regions that relate to the development of
North America.
A
Identify and use the key
geographic elements on maps (i.e., island, flood plain,
swamp, delta, marsh, harbor, cape, sea level, bay, prairie,
desert, oasis, mesa, mountain, valley, glacier, canyon,
cliff, and plateau).
A
Use various geographic data
from maps and globes to determine longitude, latitude,
distance, and direction.
A
Recognize how topographical features such as mountain and
river systems influenced the settlement and expansion of the
United States (i.e., Cumberland Gap, Wilderness Road,
and Ohio and Tennessee river systems).
M
Identify the routes of
contact between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa.
A
Interpret a geographic map of
the early United States.
D
Illustrate the
geographic exchange of ideas, materials, and goods between
the Americas and the rest of the world prior to the Civil
War.
A
Recognize the definition of
religion.
M
Identify major landforms, bodies of water, cities, and
states.
D
Identify the physical, economic, and cultural regions of the
United States.
M
Explain the factors that contribute to the placement of
cities and boundaries.
M
Explain how physical features such as major river and
mountain systems affected the development of early Native
American and early European settlements.
A
Interpret examples which illustrate how cultures adapt to or
change the environment (i.e., deforestation, subsistence
farming, cash crop, and dam and road building).
D
Explain how environmental factors influenced the way of life
of the various peoples of the Americas.
D
Describe how geographic features affected the development of
transportation and communication networks.
D
Explain the influences of geographic features both physical
and human on historical events.
D
Explain how physical processes shape the United States’
features and patterns.
D
Understand the differences in population characteristics of
the United States such as density, distribution, and growth
rates.
D
Explain how processes of migration affected development of
settlements in the United States.
M
Explain how environmental issues such as water supply and
resource availability influenced settlement patterns.
D
List
the causes of migration and immigration.
A
Interpret a chart or map of population characteristics of
the early United States (i.e., density, distribution, and
regional growth).
A
Recognize how immigration and cultural diffusion have
influenced the character of a place (i.e., religion within
certain colonies, African songs in the American south, and
British vs. French influences).
D
Discuss the economic and social impact of immigration and
migration on a region or country.
D
Categorize causes of migration and immigration into "push
and pull" factors.
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