These lessons can be used as part of a unit on Central Asia. All lesson can be done independently of each other. To evaluate and assess my geographers, I use a rubric and/or teacher observation for the lessons.

World Geography: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

WG.2A 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.2B Explain how changes in societies have led to diverse uses of physical features.

WG.3B Describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions, including weather, tectonic forces, erosion, and soil-building processes.

WG.4C Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent, and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation, and distribution of climate regions.

WG.4B Describe different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development.

WG.6A Locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of settlements.

WG.8A Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology.

WG.9A Identify physical and/or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political units, river systems, and religion that constitute a region.

WG.10B Classify where specific countries fall along the economic spectrum between free enterprise and communism.

WG.10C 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.12A Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects the location and patterns of movement of products, money, and people.

WG.13A 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.16C Explain ways various groups of people perceive the characteristics of their own and other cultures, places, and regions differently.

WG.16D Compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the world to evaluate political, economic, social, and environmental changes.

WG.18A Analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations, and diffusion.

WG.18C Identify examples of cultures that maintain traditional ways, including traditional economies. 

WG.19C Examine the environmental, economic, and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and natural resources.

WG.21B Locate places of contemporary geopolitical significance on a map.

WG.21C Create and Interpret different types of maps to answer geographic questions, infer relationships, and analyze change.

WG.22A Design and Draw appropriate graphics such as maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to communicate geographic features, distributions, and relationships.

WG.22B Generate summaries, generalizations, and thesis statements supported by evidence.

WG.22C Use geographic terminology correctly.

WG.22D Use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation.