Aurora Public Schools Social Studies Pacing Guide

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1 Colorado Academic : GEOGRAPHY Aurora Public Schools Social Studies Pacing Guide 1. Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions. 2. Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments. 3. The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. All Colorado Academic include specific 21 ST CENTURY SKILLS AND READINESS COMPETENCIES 1. INQUIRY QUESTIONS Sample questions intended to promote deeper thinking, reflection and refined understandings precisely related to the grade level expectation. 2. RELEVANCE AND APPLICATION Examples of how the grade level expectation is applied at home, on the job or in a realworld, relevant context. 3. NATURE OF THE DISCIPLINE The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation. These competencies should be integrated throughout the curriculum in all grade levels. An Important Note Geography helps students develop a framework for understanding the world, ultimately contributing to the creation of informed citizens. There are several approaches to development of a framework for understanding ones place in the world. This pacing guide allows for APS high schools to select from two approaches to developing this understanding within their student populations. Schools may choose from a regional approach or a thematic approach. Both frameworks consist of the same standards and expectations for student growth and understanding. You will find the framework for these curricular approaches below with the standards as they are assessed on a quarterly basis.

2 United States History National High School Graduation Requirement Standard Reported Standard 1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions. Embedded Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments; Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. Reported Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments. Embedded Standard1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions; Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. Embedded Standard1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions; Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments. Embedded Standard1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions; Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments. Quarter Geographic Tools and Their Application Chapters 1 and 2 3 weeks A Thematic Approach Unit 1 Essential Question Critical Content How do we use various geographic tools? Latitude, Longitude, grid system, Map Projections, Scale, Map Types, purpose of maps, Geographic Information Systems, Mapping Labs, Global Data Bank, Geography Alive Atlas, and regions Reported Standard 1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions. Embedded Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments; Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places.

3 Physical Systems Chapters 4, 11, 17, 19, 27 4 weeks Unit 2 Essential Question Critical Content How does the physical world impact human activity? Ecosystem, food chain, region, pollution, habitat, natural disasters, meteorology, hurricane cause and effects, irrigation, hydroelectricity, water cycle, river basin, runoff, climate patterns, monsoons, orthographic effect, rain shadow, cloud seeding, drought, tropical cyclones, climate, and weather, physical processes, erosion, glaciations, tectonic movement, faults, folds, volcanic activity, sedimentation, and flood plains, and Ring of Fire Reported Standard 1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions. Embedded Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments; Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. Migration Chapters 3, 5, 8, and 9 4 weeks End of First Quarter/Start Second Quarter Unit 3 Essential Question Critical Content Can we restrict migration? Rural, urban, ecumene, regions, immigration, migration, push / pull factors, trends in migration, spatial inequality, rural decline, urbanization, brain drain, standard of living, urban sprawl, metropolitan area, suburbs, mixed use development, infill, urban growth boundaries, urban core Reported Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places.

4 Resource Use Chapters 12, 20, 23, and 24 4 weeks Unit 4 Essential Question Critical Content How do resources impact people locally and globally? Land use conflict, indigenous people, sustainable development, deforestation, primary economic activities, environmentalism, eco-tourism, desertification, marginal land, cash crops, economic activities, shifting agriculture, erosion, distribution, types of resources, land use, Apartheid, and multiracial Reported Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. Supranational Cooperation Chapters 14, 16, and 18 4 Weeks End of Second Quarter/ Start Third Quarter Unit 5 Essential Question Critical Content What are the forces that unite and divide nations? Centripetal forces, centrifugal forces, supranational(examples), common market, tariff, trade bloc, cultural identity, diversity, transboundary, accidental and general pollution, causes of pollution, movement patterns of pollution, Chernobyl, acid rain, radiation, toxic chemicals, sewage, nation- state, ethnic group, nationalism, pesticides

5 Population Chapter 7, 15, 30, and weeks Unit 6 Essential Questions Critical Content How does the human population sustain itself? Population, consumption, developed vs. developing countries, per capita GDP, longevity, poverty, digital divide, consumers, producers, population pyramid, life expectancy, birth rate, death rate, demography, total fertility rate, dependency ratio, demographic transition model, rate of natural increase, solutions to population control, population density, types of population density, population distribution, and types of families, adaptations to populations i.e. buildings, transit, education, etc. Globalization Chapter 21, 28, 32, and 35 5 weeks End of Third Quarter/Start of Fourth Quarter Unit 7 Essential Question Critical Content How are people and places around the world connected? Micro-enterprise, micro entrepreneur, developing countries, informal economy, gender based division of labor, G.D.I., role of technology, credit, microloan, I.T., outsource, comparative advantage, globalization, distribution, standard of living, workforce, literacy rate, foreign investment, multinational corporation, economic interdependence, free trade, tariff, stages of production: design, materials, manufacturing and distribution, global warming theory, greenhouse effect, ecosystem, Antarctica, theory vs. reality, and impact of climate change

6 Conflict: A Case Study 2-3 weeks Unit 8 Essential Question Critical Content The international community must intervene in in order to. Developed vs. Developing countries, standard of living, genocide, forced migration, ethnic cleansing, United Nations, other international organizations, terms and content specific to recent / current conflicts around the world i.e. Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, East Timor, Mexico-U.S. border, Arab-Israeli, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haitian Earthquake, Gulf oil spill, etc. The Geographers World 3 weeks End of Fourth Quarter A Thematic Approach Unit 1 Essential Question Critical Content What is the significance of spatial orientation, place, and location? How can maps be used for political purposes? What would the world map look like if physical geography was the defining variable for country boundaries? Distortion Longitude Latitude Relative location Absolute location Climate Physical map Political map Reported Standard 1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions. Embedded Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments; Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places.

7 United States and Canada 4 weeks Unit 2 Essential Question Critical Content What is the significance of spatial orientation, place, and location? How can current world events change maps? How does increasing globalization influence the interaction of people on Earth? How do cooperation and conflict influence the division and control of the social, economic, and political spaces on Earth? Urban Sprawl Suburb Migration Immigration/emigration Push factors Pull factors Consumption Region What predictions can be made about human migration patterns? Reported Standard 1: Use different types of maps and geographic tools to analyze features on Earth to investigate and solve geographic questions. Embedded Standard 2: Explain and interpret geographic variables that influence the interaction of people, places, and environments; Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. End of First Quarter/Start Second Quarter

8 Latin America 3 weeks Unit 3 Essential Question Critical Content How can maps be used for political purposes? Spatial Inequality Urbanization How do the division and control of the physical, Plate Tectonics social, political, and cultural spaces on Earth cause Extreme Weather cooperation or conflict? Biodiversity Deforestation How might the physical geography of Earth change Sustainable Development in the future? Ecotourism What might happen if we thought locally and acted globally? What are the maximum limits of human activity the environment can withstand without deterioration? Reported Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places.

9 Europe and Russia 4 weeks Unit 4 Essential Question Critical Content How do the division and control of the physical, social, political, and cultural spaces on Earth cause cooperation or conflict? How do cooperation and conflict influence the division and control of the social, economic, and political spaces on Earth? What predictions can be made about human migration patterns? European Union Nationalism Industrialism Transboundary Pollution Economic interdependence Communism Centripetal Forces Centrifugal Forces Total Fertility Rate (TFR) Life Expectancy Population Pyramids Reported Standard 3: The interconnected nature of the world, its people and places. End of Second Quarter/ Start Third Quarter

10 Africa 4 Weeks Unit 5 Essential Question Critical Content How can maps be used for political purposes? Colonialism Nile River What would the world map look like if physical Sahara geography was the defining variable for country Sahel boundaries? Micro-entrepreneur World Bank How does increasing globalization influence the Distribution of resources interaction of people on Earth? Ethnic Conflict Genocide How do cooperation and conflict influence the division and control of the social, economic, and Apartheid political spaces on Earth? AIDS/HIV How do technologies result in social change, some of which is unanticipated such as social networking? Unit 6 Essential Questions Critical Content How can maps be used for political purposes? Nonrenewable resources Renewable resources What would the world map look like if physical Primate Cities geography was the defining variable for country Islam boundaries? OPEC Iraq War Extremism Southwest and Central Asia (The Middle East) 4 weeks What are the maximum limits of human activity the environment can withstand without deterioration?

11 Southeast Asia 5 weeks End of Third Quarter/Start of Fourth Quarter Unit 7 Essential Question Critical Content What is the significance of spatial orientation, place, and location? How can current world events change maps? What will happen if farm land degrades around the world? Population Density Monsoon Orographic Effect Information Technology (IT) One Child Policy Green Technology How might the physical geography of Earth change in the future? What are the maximum limits of human activity the environment can withstand without deterioration?

12 Unit 8 Essential Question Critical Content Oceania and Antarctica How can current world events change maps? Biodiversity Global Warming Culminating Global Issues Project How does increasing globalization influence the interaction of people on Earth? How do cooperation and conflict influence the division and control of the social, economic, and political spaces on Earth? What predictions can be made about human migration patterns? How do technologies result in social change, some of which is unanticipated such as social networking? End of Fourth Quarter

INDIANA ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES, WORLD GEOGRAPHY. PAGE(S) WHERE TAUGHT (If submission is not a book, cite appropriate location(s))

Prentice Hall: The Cultural Landscape, An Introduction to Human Geography 2002 Indiana Academic Standards for Social Studies, World Geography (Grades 9-12) STANDARD 1: THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS Students