Geography

Geography **The World in Spatial Terms** ** 1 **. Construct maps using appropriate elements (i.e., date, orientation, grid, scale, title, author, index, legend, situation). ** 2. ** Interpret maps and images (e.g., political, physical, relief, thematic, Geographic Information Systems [GIS], Landsat). ** 3. ** Use appropriate maps and other graphic representations to analyze geographic problems and changes over time. ** 4. ** Use an atlas to access information. 12 Great Resources to Get Useful World Map Information 50 States All About World Geography (Sheppard Software) Atlapedia Continent and Country David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Explore the States (America's Library) The Fifty States (Fact Monster) Flags of all Countries GeoBytes Geocube GeoGames Geography (About) Geography Challenge Geography Quiz (Learning Planet) || GIS Day GIS in Education GIS Zone (Map Zone) Goggles: The Google Map Flight Simulator Google Earth Google Earth 101 for Educators Google Earth Blog Google Earth Community Google Earth Goodies! Google Earth Lessons Google Earth Lessons (Juicy Geography) Google Earth Outreach Google My Maps GPS & GIS Lesson Plans and Links (Science Spot) The Grid System How to Read a Map(About) How Well Do You Know Your World? Latitude and Longitude Logic Games (Map Zone) || Map Games Maps, Flags, Timelines MapMaker Interactive (National Geographic) Mapping Our World (Oxfam) More Latitude and Longitude Practice "My Maps" From Google (Bionic Teaching) Outline Maps (Edu Place) Peep and the Big Wide World Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Planet Ocean Quiz Sail Safe Quick Maps || Test Your Geography Knowledge US State Capitals 1/Quiz US State Capitals 2/Quiz US State Capitals Quiz USA Geography Games (Sheppard Software) USA Map Where Is That? (Fun Brain) World Atlas The World Factbook (CIA) World Maps (Sheppard Software) ||  **Places and Regions** **1.** Identify the characteristics that define a region: a. physical processes such as climate, terrain, and resources b. human processes such as religion, political organization, economy, and demographics **2**. Describe the factors (e.g., demographics, political systems, economic systems, resources, culture) that contribute to the variations between developing and developed regions. ** 3 **. Examine geographic issues (e.g., drought in Sahel, migration patterns, desertification of Aral Sea, spread of religions such as Islam, conflicts in Northern Ireland/Ireland, Jerusalem, Tibet) in places and world regions. ** 4 **. Analyze the differing political, religious, economic, demographic, and historical ways of viewing places and regions. ** 5. ** Examine how the geographic characteristics of a place affect the economics and culture (e.g., changing regional economy of the sunbelt, location with respect of natural hazards, location of Panama Canal, Air Force Bases). ** 6. ** Analyze how a region changes over time (e.g., U.S./Mexico border, Europe from World War I to the development of European Union, change from pre- to post-colonialism in Africa, Hong Kong). ** 7 **. Analyze sides of scientific debates over how human actions (e.g., global warming, ozone decline) modify a region. Against All Odds Amazon Rainforest Virtual Field Trip Ayiti: The Cost of Life Barcode Yourself Coastal Manager Communism Country Reports Don't Gross Out the World Europa (European Union) || Food Force Free Poverty Geocube Geographia Global Rich List Guided Video Tours and Review of Travel Destinations Around the World [|Hitosa Water Management Game] (Water Aid) Mayor Wanted McDonald's Video Game Myabodo My Culture My Sust House || NATO Oiligarchy Organization of American States (Wikipedia) Pani the Handpump Race Against Global Poverty Revolution in Cairo (PBS) Sweat Shop Tension in the Arab World Trade Ruler Trading Around the World Transaid Challenge || United Nations Videographic: East Africa's Drought (Youtube) Videographic: Internally Displaced Refugees (Youtube) Iced Game Water Aid Water Alert Which Countries Have the Most Oil Reserves? The World Factbook (CIA) World War II Military Situation Maps (LOC) World Without Oil || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Physical Systems** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**1**. Analyze how weather and climate (e.g., the effect of heat transfer, Earth’s rotation, and severe weather systems) influence the natural character of a place. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**2**. Analyze different points of view on the use of renewable and non-renewable resources. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**3**. Analyze how earth’s internal changes (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic activity, folding, faulting) and external changes (e.g., geochemical, water and carbon cycles, erosion, deposition) influence the character of places. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**4**. Analyze how hydrology (e.g., quality, reclamation, conservation) influences the natural character of a place. Earthquakes (Discovery) FloodSim Forces of Nature (National Geographic) || Geocube Geography 4 Kids || New Bay Bridge Quake Quiz The Renewable World Stop Disasters! Super Volcano (BBC) || Virtual River Volcano Explorer (Discovery) The World Factbook (CIA) || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Human Systems** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**1**. Interpret population growth and demographics (e.g., birth and death rates, population growth rates, doubling time and life expectancy, carrying capacity). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**2**. Analyze push/pull factors that contribute to human migration. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**3**. Analyze the effects of migration on places of origin and destination, including border areas. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**4.** Analyze issues of globalization (e.g., widespread use of English, the role of the global media, resistance to “cultural imperialism”, trade, outsourcing). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**5**. Analyze the development, growth, and changing nature of cities (e.g., urban sprawl, suburbs, city revitalization). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**6.** Analyze factors (e.g., social, biotic, abiotic) that affect human populations. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**7**. Predict the effect of a change in a specific factor (e.g., social, biotic, abiotic) on a human population. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 8. ** Explain how ideas, customs, and innovations (e.g., religion, language, political philosophy, technological advances, higher education, economic principles) are spread through cultural diffusion. AP + News Centre of the Cell Country Guides to Culture, Etiquette, Customs and more? From Ellis Island to Orchard Street || Gapminder Geocube Growth of a Nation International Programs (US Census Bureau) || The Minature Earth Population Reference Bureau Social Explorer: Demographic Maps || The World Factbook (CIA) || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Environment and Society** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**1**. Analyze how the Earth’s natural systems (e.g., Gulf Stream permitting habitation of northern Europe, earthquakes, tsunamis, periodic droughts, river civilizations) affect humans. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**2**. Analyze how natural hazards impact humans (e.g., differences in disaster preparation between developed and developing nations, why people continue to build in disaster-prone places). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**3.** Analyze how changes in the natural environment can increase or diminish its capacity to support human activity (e.g., major droughts, warm and cold periods, volcanic eruptions, El Niño events, pollution). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**4**. Analyze the environmental effects of human use of technology (e.g., irrigation, deforestation, overgrazing, global warming, atmospheric and climate changes, energy production costs and benefits, water management) on the environment. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 5 **. Analyze how humans impact the diversity and productivity of ecosystems (e.g., invading non-native plants and animals). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 6. ** Analyze policies and programs for resource use and management (e.g., the trade-off between environmental quality and economic growth in the twentieth century). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 7 **. Predict how a change in an environmental factor (e.g., extinction of species, volcanic eruptions) can affect an ecosystem. Climate Challenge (BBC) Climate Control Conflict Map Darfur is Dying || Energy info Zone Energyville Environment Games Garbage Game Geocube || Operation: Climate Control Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons || Vinylgame The World Factbook (CIA) || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Geographic Applications** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 1 **. Analyze how geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives (e.g., use of Geographic Information Systems in urban planning, reapportionment of political units, locating businesses) are used to solve contemporary problems. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**2**. Analyze how changing perceptions of places and environments (e.g., where individuals choose to live and work, Israeli settlements, role of military bases, Viking colonization and naming of Iceland) affect the choices of people and institutions. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**3.** Analyze how geography influences historical events and movements (e.g., Trail of Tears, Cuban Missile Crisis, location of terrorist camps, pursuit of Pancho Villa, Mao’s long march, Hannibal crossing the Alps, Silk Road). <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**AP Geography Sites** Advanced Placement Human Geography (Wikipedia) AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography AP Human Geography (About) AP Human Geography Ch 9 Vocabulary (Quizlet) AP Human Geography Ch 14 Vocabulary (Quizlet) AP Human Geography Course Home Page AP Human Geography Study Stacks || Geography Study Stack Human Geography (College Board) Human Geography AP (Wikibooks) || Martin's AP Human Geography ||  ||
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For Geography Teachers Free Rice Geogames Geography for Kids [|Geography Games] (Play Kids Games) || Geography Guide (Info Please) Geography Pages Geography Quizzes and Games Geography Resources Geography Tutorial Sites Geography Websites Geography World || [|Mrs. Walton's Geography Page] My Wonderful World Online Geography Games Persuasive Games Planet in Action/Games Robo Poop Social Studies Presentations (PPT) || Tom Green's Quiz Game USGS Education Resources for Secondary Grades World Geography World Geography and Culture: Video Library (Glencoe) World Geography Review World Vision Games || Mrs. Walton's Blog
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 * Children and Games