Course Outline

Big Questions:

  • How does Geography affect the way people live?
  • What does it mean to be a global citizen? How can we be more active citizens?
  • How does one’s culture, history, and human interactions affect the way people live?

Overarching Skills:

  • Analyze political cartoons, graphics, and images
  • Determine the bias in sources
  • Develop a claim and back up with evidence
  • Analyze resources for different perspectives
  • Analyzing evidence and developing thoughtful questions
  • Develop a research question and use multiple sources to answer question.
  • Summarize the similarities and differences between the way people live around the world
  • Identify political and physical features