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Wld Geography Studies 1 st 28 Days Aug 26 Oct. 4, 2013 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. 1: The Wld in Spatial Terms: Places/Regions serves is a review of geographic tools such as maps, mental maps, and other data tools. It introduces students to the geographic standards related to the Wld in Spatial Terms and Places/Regions. 2: ESPN Physical Systems exples the geographic elements of Physical Systems and addresses the processes that shape the earth s surface as well as significant landfms, ecosystems and other physical aspects of places. 6 12 5 10 Part 1: Interpreting and Creating Map and Data Tools WGS.20A Describe the impact of new infmation technologies such as the Internet, Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Infmation Systems (GIS). WGS.21A Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic infmation such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps. WGS.22A Design/draw and interpret appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by Part 2: Defining and Comparing Wld Regions WGS.9A Identify physical and/ human facts such as climate, vegetation, language, trade netwks, political units, river systems and religion that constitute a region WGS.9B Describe different types of regions, including fmal, functional, and perceptual regions. WGS.13A Interpret maps to explain the division of land, including man-made and natural bders, into separate political units such as cities, states, countries. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. Part 1: The Processes that Shape Patterns on Earth s Surface WGS.3B Describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions, including weather, tectonic fces, erosion, and soil-building processes. WGS.3C Examine the physical processes that affect the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. WGS.4B Describe different landfms and the physical processes that cause their development. Part 2: The Characteristics and Distribution of Ecosystems on Earth s Surface WGS.3A Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth- Sun relationships. WGS.4A Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent, and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation, and distribution of climate regions. WGS.4C Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 1 of 12

Wld Geography Studies 2 nd 3: ESPN: environment and Society examines how humans adapt to, depend on and often modify the physical environment in which they settle. It also exples the impact that the physical environment has on the human systems within that space. 25 Days Oct 7 Nov 8, 2013 4 8 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. Part 1: The environment: How Physical Systems affect Human Systems WGS.2A Describe the human and physical characteristics of the same regions at different of time to evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions. WGS.2B Explain how changes in societies have led to diverse uses of physical features. WGS.8B Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters such as El Niño, floods, tsunamis, and volcanoes. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by WGS.23B Use case studies and GIS to identify contempary challenges and to answer real-wld questions. Part 2: 2 Lessons: Humans and the environment: Adapt and/ Modify? WGS.8A Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology. WGS.8C Evaluate the economic and political relationships between settlements and the environment, including sustainable development and renewable/non-renewable resources. WGS.19A Evaluate the significance of maj technological innovations in the areas of transptation and energy that have been used to modify the physical environment. WGS.19B Analyze ways technological innovations such as air conditioning and desalinization have allowed humans to adapt to places. 4: Population and Migration exples settlement patterns, routes of migration, and distribution and population patterns. 5 10 Part 1: Human Systems: Settlement Patterns and Processes WGS.6A Locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of settlements. WGS.6B Explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns, including urbanization, transptation, access to and availability of resources, and economic activities. WGS.7A Construct and analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future population trends. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 2 of 12

2 nd 25 Days Oct 7 Nov 8, 2013 2013-2014 HISD SCOPE AND SEQUENCE Wld Geography Studies The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. Part 2: Human Systems: Migration and Distribution Patterns WGS.1A Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on the past and describe their impact on the present, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns and shaped the distribution of culture groups today. WGS.7B Explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull facts and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration. WGS.22A Design/draw and interpret appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 3 of 12

Wld Geography Studies 3 rd 27 Days Nov 11 Dec 20, 2013 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. 5: ESPN: Social/Cultural Defining Culture attempts to answer the question: What is culture? It also exples how cultural traits spread from place to place. 6: ESPN: Social/Cultural Religion By examining religion as one particular aspect of the cultural mosaic this onepart unit attempts to use this social/cultural lens to exple how culture influences people s perceptions. 4 8 4 8 Part 1: Defining Culture: Characteristics of the Cultural Mosaic WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.16B Describe elements of culture, including language, religion, beliefs and customs, institutions and technologies WGS.17A Describe and compare patterns of culture such as language, religion, land use, education, and customs that make specific regions of the wld distinctive. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by Part 2: Cultural Diffusion: Distribution of the Aspects of Culture WGS.1B Trace the spatial diffusion of phenomena such as the Columbian Exchange the diffusion of American popular culture and describe the effects on regions of contact. WGS.16A Describe distinctive cultural patterns and landscapes associated with different places in Texas, the ed States, and other regions of the wld and how these patterns influenced the processes of innovation and diffusion. WGS.16C Explain ways various groups of people perceive the characteristics of their own and other cultures, places, and regions differently. WGS.18D Evaluate the spread of cultural traits to find examples of cultural convergence and divergence such as the spread of democratic ideas, U.S.-based fast-food franchises, the English language, technology, global spts. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by Part 1: Comparing Wld Religions: Examining Cultural Complexity WGS.15A Identify and give examples of different points of view that influence the development of public policies and decision-making processes on local, state, national, and international levels. WGS.17B Describe maj wld religions including animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism and their spatial distribution. WGS.22A Design/draw and interpret appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 4 of 12

Wld Geography Studies 4 th 28 Days Jan 7 Feb 14, 2014 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. 7: ESPN Political Systems This four-part unit exples the development of political systems and divisions. As humans settled together in larger and larger groups the need f rules and laws emerged and humans began to fm systems of government and various political divisions on the earth s surface. As urban migration and wldwide population increases there is a continuing need f understanding urban societies. 6 12 Part 1: Types and Functions of Government WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.14B Compare how democracy, dictatship, monarchy, republic, theocracy, and totalitarian systems operate in specific countries. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by Part 2: Political Divisions and Patterns WGS.13A Interpret maps to explain the division of land, including man-made and natural bders, into separate political units such as cities, states, countries. WGS.13B Compare maps of voting patterns political boundaries to make inferences about the distribution of political power. WGS.14A Analyze current events to infer the physical and human processes that lead to the fmation of boundaries and other political divisions. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by Part 3: Comparing Regional Political Systems WGS.14C Analyze the human and physical facts that influence the power to control territy and resources, create conflict/war, and impact international political relations of sovereign nations such as China, the ed States, Japan, and Russia and ganized nation groups such as the ed Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU). WGS.22A Design/draw and interpret appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships. WGS.23B Use case studies and GIS to identify contempary challenges and to answer real-wld questions. Part 4: Population Growth and Urbanization WGS.7A Construct and analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future population trends WGS.7C Describe trends in wld population growth and distribution. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 5 of 12

Wld Geography Studies 4 th 28 Days Jan 7 Feb 14, 2014 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. 8: Conflict and Cooperation begins to examine how the fces of human conflict and cooperation influence human and physical systems and how this cooperation has led to increased globalization. 5 10 Part 1: Conflict and Cooperation WGS.18A Analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations, and diffusion. WGS.18B Assess causes, effects, and perceptions of conflicts between groups of people, including modern genocides and terrism. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by WGS.23B Use case studies and GIS to identify contempary challenges and to answer real-wld questions. Part 2: Globalization WGS.7D Examine benefits and challenges of globalization including connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture WGS.20B Examine the economic, environmental, and social effects of technology such as medical advancements changing trade patterns on societies at different levels of development. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 6 of 12

5 th 9: ESPN Economic Systems exples how humans develop economic systems and how economic activity is dependent on available human and physical resources and the management, use, and distribution of those resources. 29 Days Feb 14 April 4, 2014 6 12 2013-2014 HISD SCOPE AND SEQUENCE Wld Geography Studies The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. Part 1: Types of Economic Systems WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.10A Describe the fces that determine the distribution of goods and services in free enterprise, socialist, and communist economic systems. WGS.10B ify where specific countries fall along the economic spectrum between free enterprise and communism. WGS.10C Compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture cottage industries versus commercial industries. WGS.18C Identify examples of cultures that maintain traditional ways including traditional economies WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. Part 2: Economic Activity WGS.11B Identify the facts affecting the location of different types of economic activities, including subsistence and commercial agriculture, manufacturing, and service industries. WGS.11C Assesses how changes in climate, resources, and infrastructure (technology, transptation, and communication) affect the location and patterns of economic activities. WGS.12A Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people. WGS.12B Evaluate the geographic and economic impact of policies related to the development, use, and scarcity of natural resources such as regulations of water. WGS.19C Examine the environmental, economic, and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and natural resources. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 7 of 12

Wld Geography Studies 5 th 29 Days Feb 14 April 4, 2014 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. 10: ESPN Examining Economic Disparity examines political, economic, social and demographic indicats that help determine various levels of economic development. This unit provides opptunities f students to interpret data to compare levels of development and the relationship between availability of resources and economic disparity. 6 12 Part 1: Economic Geography: Levels of Development WGS.5B Interpret political, economic, social, and demographic indicats (gross domestic product per capita, life expectancy, literacy, and infant mtality) to determine the level of development and standard of living in nations using the terms Human Development Index, less developed, newly industrialized, and me developed. WGS.11A Understand the connections between levels of development and economic activities (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary). WGS.21A Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic infmation such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. WGS.22A Design/draw and interpret appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships. Part 2: Economic Geography: Examining Economic Disparity WGS.12A Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people. WGS.12B Evaluate the geographic and economic impact of policies related to the development, use, and scarcity of natural resources such as regulations of water. WGS.17C Compare economic, political social opptunities in different cultures f women, ethnic and religious minities and other underrepresented populations. WGS.21A Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic infmation such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 8 of 12

6 th 11: ESPN Wld Overview [Review ] This four-part unit uses the ESPN themes to review key concepts and understandings in Wld Geography Studies. This focus on the ESPN themes helps students review how the character of a place/region is related to its economic, socialcultural, political and environmental elements. [Note: This review unit focuses on Readiness Standards but also includes critical Suppting Standard and includes concepts from both the Readiness and Suppting Standards in the suggested review strategies) 38 Days April 7 May 29, 2014 8 16 2013-2014 HISD SCOPE AND SEQUENCE Wld Geography Studies The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. Part 1: environment Physical Geography Reviewing Concepts WGS.2A Describe the human and physical characteristics of the same regions at different of time to evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions. WGS.3B Describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions, including weather, tectonic fces, erosion, and soil-building processes. WGS.4A Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent, and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation, and distribution of climate regions. WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.6B Explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns, including urbanization, transptation, access to and availability of resources, and economic activities. WGS.7B Explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull facts and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration. WGS.7C Describe trends in wld population growth and distribution. WGS.8A Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology. WGS.8B Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters such as El Niño, floods, tsunamis, and volcanoes. WGS.9A Identify physical and/ human facts such as climate, vegetation, language, trade netwks, political units, river systems and religion that constitute a region. WGS.19C Examine the environmental, economic, and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and natural resources. WGS.19A Evaluate the significance of maj technological innovations in the areas of transptation and energy that have been used to modify the physical environment. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 9 of 12

6 th 38 Days April 7 May 29, 2014 2013-2014 HISD SCOPE AND SEQUENCE Wld Geography Studies The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. Part 2: Social/Cultural Geography: Reviewing Concepts WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.16B Describe elements of culture, including language, religion, beliefs and customs, institutions and technologies WGS.16D Compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the wld to evaluate political, economic, social and environmental changes WGS.17A Describe and compare patterns of culture such as language, religion, land use, education, and customs that make specific regions of the wld distinctive. WGS.17B Describe maj wld religions including animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism and their spatial distribution. WGS.18A Analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations, and diffusion. WGS.18D Evaluate the spread of cultural traits to find examples of cultural convergence and divergence such as the spread of democratic ideas, U.S.-based fast-food franchises, the English language, technology, global spts. WGS.21A Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic infmation such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps. Part 3: Political Geography: Reviewing Concepts WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.1A Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on the past and describe their impact on the present, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns and shaped the distribution of culture groups today. WGS.1B Trace the spatial diffusion of phenomena such as the Columbian Exchange the diffusion of American popular culture and describe the effects on regions of contact. WGS.2A Describe the human and physical characteristics of the same regions at different of time to evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions. WGS.13A Interpret maps to explain the division of land, including man-made and natural bders, into separate political units such as cities, states, countries. WGS.14B Compare how democracy, dictatship, monarchy, republic, theocracy, and totalitarian systems operate in specific countries. WGS.14C Analyze the human and physical facts that influence the power to control territy and resources, create conflict/war, and impact international political relations of sovereign nations such as China, the ed States, - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 10 of 12

6 th 38 Days April 7 May 29, 2014 2013-2014 HISD SCOPE AND SEQUENCE Wld Geography Studies The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. Japan, and Russia and ganized nation groups such as the ed Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU). WGS.16D Compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the wld to evaluate political, economic, social and environmental changes WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. Part 4: Economic Geography: Reviewing Concepts WGS.5A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements. WGS.10C Compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture cottage industries versus commercial industries. WGS.11C Assess how changes in climate, resources, and infrastructure (technology, transptation, and communication) affect the location and patterns of economic activities. WGS.12A Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people. WGS.19A Evaluate the significance of maj technological innovations in the areas of transptation and energy that have been used to modify the physical environment. WGS.19C Examine the environmental, economic, and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and natural resources. WGS.16D Compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the wld to evaluate political, economic, social and environmental changes WGS.21A Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic infmation such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps. WGS.21B Locate places of contempary geopolitical significance on a map. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 11 of 12

Wld Geography Studies 6 th 38 Days April 7 May 29, 2014 The recommended number of is less than the number of days in the grading cycle to instructional planning infmation and suppt are in the HISD Curriculum documents. 12: Researching Geographically allows students to exple a topic of interest using a research process and to present results of their findings to the. 5 10 Part 1: Conducting Research Research Project related to Social/Cultural Political topic WGS.23A Plan, ganize, and complete a research project that involves asking geographic questions, acquiring, ganizing, and analyzing infmation, answering questions, and communicating results. WGS.21A Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic infmation such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps. WGS.22A Design and draw appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships. WGS.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements suppted by WGS.22D Use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation. WGS.22E Create iginal wk using proper citations and understanding and avoiding plagiarism. Part 2: Research Presentations: Social/Cultural Political Aspects of Human Geography WGS.22D Use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation. WGS.22E Create iginal wk using proper citations and understanding and avoiding plagiarism. WGS.23A Plan, ganize, and complete a research project that involves asking geographic questions, acquiring, ganizing, and analyzing infmation, answering questions, and communicating results. - State Process Standard - State Readiness Standard - State Suppting Standard Page 12 of 12