World Geography Unit 9

Big Idea:

• Relationships among people, places and environments affect geographic patterns (where people live) on the Earth’s surface.
• People organize economic systems to produce (make), distribute (give out), and consume (use or buy) goods and services.
• People create systems of government as well as structures of power and authority to provide order and stability. (People create rules and laws to provide order.)
• Science and technology affect the development of society (community).

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

WG.6(A) [Supporting] locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of settlements

WG.6(B) [Readiness] explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns, including urbanization, transportation, access to and availability of resources, and economic activities

WG.8(A) [Readiness]compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology

WG.10(A) [Supporting] describe the forces that determine the distribution of goods and services in free enterprise, socialist, and communist economic systems

WG.10(B) [Supporting]classify where specific countries fall along the economic spectrum between free enterprise and communism

WG.10(D) [Supporting] compare global trade patterns over time and examine the implications of globalization, including outsourcing and free trade zones

WG.14(B) [Supporting] compare how democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, republic, theocracy, and totalitarian systems operate in specific countries

WG.16(B) [Supporting] describe elements of culture, including language, religion, beliefs and customs, institutions, and technologies

WG.16(D) [Supporting]compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the world to evaluate political, economic, social, and environmental changes

WG.18(A) [Readiness] analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations, and diffusion

Focus TEKS

WG.2(A) [Readiness] describe the human and physical characteristics of the same regions at different periods of time to evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions,

WG.2(B) [Supporting] explain how changes in societies have led to diverse uses of physical features,

WG.3(A) [Supporting] explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth-Sun relationships,

WG.3(B) [Readiness] describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions, including weather, tectonic forces, erosion, and soil-building processes,

WG.3(C) [Supporting] examine the physical processes that affect the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

WG.4(A) [Readiness] explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent, and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation, and distribution of climate regions,

WG.4(B) [Supporting] describe different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development

WG.4(C) [Supporting] explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions,

WG.5(A) [Readiness] analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements.

WG.5(B) [Supporting] interpret political, economic, social, and demographic indicators (gross domestic product per capita, life expectancy, literacy, and infant mortality) to determine the level of development and standard of living in nations using the terms Human Development Index, less developed, newly industrialized, and more developed,

WG.7(A) [Supporting] 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,

WG.7(B) [Readiness] explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration

WG.7(C) [Readiness] describe trends in world population growth and distribution,

WG.7(D) [Supporting] examine benefits and challenges of globalization, including connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture,

WG.8(B) [Readiness] 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,

WG.9(A) [Readiness] identify physical and/or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political units, river systems, and religion that constitute a region,

WG.9(B) [Supporting] describe different types of regions, including formal, functional, and perceptual regions,

WG.10(C) [Readiness] compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture or cottage industries versus commercial industries,

WG.11(B) [Supporting] identify the factors affecting the location of different types of economic activities, including subsistence and commercial agriculture, manufacturing, and service industries,

WG.11(C) [Readiness] assess how changes in climate, resources, and infrastructure (technology, transportation, and communication) affect the location and patterns of economic activities,

WG.15(B) [Supporting] explain how citizenship practices, public policies, and decision making may be influenced by cultural beliefs, including nationalism and patriotism,

WG.17(A) [Readiness] describe and compare patterns of culture such as language, religion, land use, education, and customs that make specific regions of the world distinctive

WG.17(B) [Supporting] describe major world religions, including animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism, and their spatial distribution

WG.20(A) [Supporting] describe the impact of new information technologies such as the Internet, Global Positioning System (GPS), or Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Ongoing TEKS

WG.13(A) [Readiness] interpret maps to explain the division of land, including man-made and natural borders, into separate political units such as cities, states, or countries

WG.21(A) analyze and evaluate the validity, and utility of multiple sources of geographic information such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps

WG.22(A) design and draw appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships

WG.22(B) generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements supported by evidence

WG.22(D) use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation

WG.22(E) create original work using proper citations and understanding and avoiding plagiarism

WG.22(C) use geographic terminology correctly

Student Learning Targets:

• I will identify ways the region has been affected culturally by Western influences brought through colonialism, imperialism, and World Wars I & II
• I will examine the growth of the global economy (as an element of globalization) affects the standing of these nations on the world market.
• I will write about examples of globalization and growth of global connections.

Essential Questions:

• To what extent should society control the individuals?
• Are innovations in technology beneficial or detrimental?
• What events of the 20th Century shaped the culture and governments of the region?
• What is the significance of environmental and cultural issues affecting the region today?
• This region struggles with burgeoning population issues. What are they and how are the countries responding to the challenges?
• What were the goals and effects of colonialism (imperialism) in East Asia?
• How has technology driven the economic developments and changes over time?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: World Geography Texas - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Holt McDougal

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