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Social Studies 11: Syllabus
Social 11 Syllabus
Unit 1: Introduction to Geography
Chapter 1: How Geographer’s Look at the World
a. U.S. Map project
b. Rushford Map project
Standards: Geography:
Sub-Strand: Essential Skills
Standards: The student will use maps, globes, geographic information systems, and other databases to answer geographic questions at a variety of scales from local to global.
Chapter 2: The Earth and it’s Changes
a. Forces of Change
b. Earths Water
Standards: Geography:
Sub-Strand: Essential Skills
Standard: The student will use maps, globes, geographic information systems, and other databases to answer geographic questions at a variety of scales from local to global.
Unit 2: The effects of Human population.
Chapter 4: The Human World
a. World Population Research
b. Discovering Cultures
c. Resources, Trade and the environment
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will understand the regional distribution of the human population at local to global scales and its patterns of change.
Unit 3: The United States and Canada
Chapter 5: Physical features of North America
Chapter 6: Population Patterns
a. History
b. Culture of the U.S. and Canada
c. States Project
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 4: Europe
Chapter 11: Physical features of Europe
Chapter 12: European Culture
a. Euro-trip project
Chapter 13: Europeans and their environment
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 5: Latin America
Chapter 8: Physical features of Latin America
a. Create a model nation project
Chapter 9: Cultural Geography of Latin America
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 6: North Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 17: Physical features of Africa and the Middle East
a. Peace in the Middle East Project
Chapter 18: Cultural Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
a. The relationship between religion and culture
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 7: East Asia
Chapter 18: Physical Features of East Asia
Chapter 19: Culture of the Orient (Relations with the United States)
a. Foreign Trade Game
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Chapter 1: How Geographer’s Look at the World
a. U.S. Map project
b. Rushford Map project
Standards: Geography:
Sub-Strand: Essential Skills
Standards: The student will use maps, globes, geographic information systems, and other databases to answer geographic questions at a variety of scales from local to global.
Chapter 2: The Earth and it’s Changes
a. Forces of Change
b. Earths Water
Standards: Geography:
Sub-Strand: Essential Skills
Standard: The student will use maps, globes, geographic information systems, and other databases to answer geographic questions at a variety of scales from local to global.
Unit 2: The effects of Human population.
Chapter 4: The Human World
a. World Population Research
b. Discovering Cultures
c. Resources, Trade and the environment
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will understand the regional distribution of the human population at local to global scales and its patterns of change.
Unit 3: The United States and Canada
Chapter 5: Physical features of North America
Chapter 6: Population Patterns
a. History
b. Culture of the U.S. and Canada
c. States Project
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 4: Europe
Chapter 11: Physical features of Europe
Chapter 12: European Culture
a. Euro-trip project
Chapter 13: Europeans and their environment
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 5: Latin America
Chapter 8: Physical features of Latin America
a. Create a model nation project
Chapter 9: Cultural Geography of Latin America
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 6: North Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 17: Physical features of Africa and the Middle East
a. Peace in the Middle East Project
Chapter 18: Cultural Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
a. The relationship between religion and culture
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
Unit 7: East Asia
Chapter 18: Physical Features of East Asia
Chapter 19: Culture of the Orient (Relations with the United States)
a. Foreign Trade Game
Standards: Geography
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will describe and provide examples of the primary factors behind the regional pattern of culture groups in Anglo-America.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
Sub-Strand: Spatial Organization
Standard: The student will analyze the patterns of location, functions, structure, and characteristics of local to global settlement patterns and the processes that affect the location of cities.
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