Our Current unit is Geography!
Enduring Understandings
- History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
- People are diverse and reflect the values and judgements of their specific time and place.
- Resources on earth are finite and people must make choices of where to put them.
- Citizenship is a complex relationship of rights and expectations.
- There is a relationship between the consumption and conservation of natural resources.
- Geography influences needs, culture, opportunities, choices, interests, and skills.
By the end of the unit students should be able to:
- Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
- Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics
- Use paper based and electronic mapping and graphing techniques to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.
- Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
- Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
- Evaluate the influence of long-term human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.
- Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.
- Explain the various migratory patterns of hunters/gatherers that moved from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas, and describe the impact of migration on their lives and on the shaping of societies
- Explain how archaeological discoveries are used to develop and enhance understanding of life prior to written records
- Determine the extent to which geography influenced settlement, the development of trade networks, technological innovations, and the sustainability of early river valley civilizations.
- Understand that the Human Journey is all about where we have been, where we live now (and why), and where we are going.