Minnesota Transitions Curriculum Mapping

High School: Minnesota Transitions Charter School

Course: World Geography
Timelin
e
T-1
8/319/18

Content/Standard

Skills

Review of Basics/Physical Geography of

Latin America: Life in the Central Andes,
Adapting to a Mountainous Region

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Drawing inferences
*Supporting a position
*Time management

Students will use maps, globes, GIS and

other sources of information to analyze the
natures of places at a variety of scales.

T-2
9/2110/9

Give examples that demonstrate how people

are connected to each other and the
environment
Human Geography of Latin America: Spatial
Inequality in Mexico City
Analyze the patterns of location, functions,
structure, and characteristics of local to
global settlement processes that affect the
location of cities.

T-3
10/1210/30

Physical Geography of Europe/Russia:

Mapping Lab & Russias Varied Landscape,
Physical Processes at Work
Students will use maps, globes, GIS and
other sources of information to analyze the
natures of places at a variety of scales.

Assessment
*Textbook review
assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments
*Test

Teacher: Troy Willemssen

Content

Resources

Major Topics:
location, place,
region, movement,
human-environment
interaction.

Teacher
lectures;
Text Ch1-2;
Latin
America
Mapping
Lab

Earths structure,
bodies of water &
landforms, internal
& external forces
*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Working with partners/small
groups
*Reflective writing
*Considering multiple
perspectives
*SQR3/Notetaking
Citation skills

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Major Topics:
Human environment
interaction,
government,
economy, culture,
current issues,
spatial inequality,
NAFTA,
deforestation, global
warming

Ch 9 & 12

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Analyzing maps
*Identifying Cause and Effect
Relationships

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Major Topics:
landforms,
resources, climate,
history, government

Text Ch 17

Minnesota Transitions Curriculum Mapping

High School: Minnesota Transitions Charter School
Course: World Geography

Teacher: Troy Willemssen

Timelin
e

Content/Standard

Skills

T-4
11/211/20

Human Geography of Europe/Russia:

Supranational Cooperation in EU &
Population Dilemmas in Europe

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Summarizing
*Comparing and Contrasting

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments
*Summative PowerPoint
(Ch14)

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Determining patterns on maps
*Making Mental Maps

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Major topics:
landforms &
resources, climate &
vegetation, human
environment
interaction

Mapping
Lab
materials

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Metacognition
*Organization
*Reflective Writing
*Sequencing
*Analyzing primary documents

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Major Topics:
History,
government,
economy, culture,
current issues,
European
colonialism,
Apartheid

Text Ch 22

Understand the regional distribution of the

human population at local to global scales
and it patterns of change.

Assessment

Content

Major Topics:
history, government,
economy, culture,
current issues,
European Union,
ethnic tensions

Resources

Text
Ch14&15

Explain how the regionalization of space

into political units affects human behavior
T-5
11/2312/11

Physical Geography of Africa: Mapping Lab

& The Nile River From Source to Mouth
Students will use maps, globes, GIS and
other sources of information to analyze the
natures of places at a variety of scales.

T-6
12/141/16

Human Geography of Africa: Nigeria, a

Country of Many Cultures & Resources and
Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Describe and provide examples of the
primary factors behind the regional pattern
of culture groups in the world.

Minnesota Transitions Curriculum Mapping

High School: Minnesota Transitions Charter School
Course: World Geography
Timelin
e

Content/Standard

Teacher: Troy Willemssen

Skills

Assessment

Content

Resources

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Finding main ideas and
supporting details
*Identifying points of view
*Sequencing

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Major Topics:
landforms &
resources, climate &
vegetation, human
environment
interaction

Mapping
Lab
Materials;
Ch 26

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Creating maps
*Analyzing maps
*Comparing and contrasting
*Synthesizing information

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments
*Timeline Points
*Perform a convention
speech

Major Topics:
Colonialism, Oil
distribution, history,
government,
economy, culture,
current issues

Text Ch 2425

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing

Major Topics:
landforms &
resources, climate &
vegetation, human,

Mapping
Lab
materials;
Ch 31-32

Use regions and the interaction between

them to analyze the present patterns of
economy.

T-7
1/19-2/6

Physical Geography of Central and

Southwest Asia: Mapping Lab & The Aral
Sea, Shrinking Water Source
Students will use maps, globes, GIS and
other sources of information to analyze the
natures of places at a variety of scales.
Describe how humans influence the
environment and are in turn influenced by
it.

T-8
2/9-2/27

Human Geography of Central and Southwest

Asia: Istanbul, a Primate City & Oil in SW
Asia, How Black Gold has Shaped a Region
Analyze the patterns of location, functions,
structure, and characteristics of local to
global settlement processes that affect the
location of cities.

T-9
3/2-3/20

Use regions and the interaction between

them to analyze the present patterns of
economic activity around the world.
Physical Geography of Monsoon Asia:
Mapping Lab & Waiting for the rains
Students will use maps, globes, GIS and

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Supporting a position
*Making inferences

Minnesota Transitions Curriculum Mapping

High School: Minnesota Transitions Charter School
Course: World Geography
Timelin
e

Teacher: Troy Willemssen

Content/Standard

Skills

Assessment

Content

Resources

other sources of information to analyze the

natures of places at a variety of scales.

*Problem solving
*Creating tables, diagrams,
graphs

Assignments

environment
interaction

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Using tables, diagrams and
graphs
*Finding main ideas and
supporting details
*Using scale
*Making valid generalizations

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Major topics:
Spatial inequality,
population density,
effects of weather
economic planning,
history, government,
economy, history,
culture

Text Ch 3132

Major topics:
Landforms,
resources, climate,
vegetation

Mapping
Lab
materials;
Ch 34

Major topics:

Text Ch 33-

Demonstrate how people are connected to

each other and the environment.
T-10
3/234/17

Human Geography of Monsoon Asia:

Population Density in Japan & The Global
Sneaker
Understand the regional distribution of the
human population at local to global scales
and its pattern of change.
Use regions and the interaction between
them to analyze the present patterns of
economic activity around the world.

T-11
4/205/15

Physical Geography of Oceania and

Antarctica: Mapping Lab & Pacific Islands
Students will use maps, globes, GIS and
other sources of information to analyze the
natures of places at a variety of scales.

*Reading comprehension
*Formal paragraphs
*Synthesizing information
*Summarizing
*Transferring information from
one medium to another

Demonstrate how people are connected to

each other and the environment.

T-12

Human Geography of Oceania and

*Reading comprehension

*Text book review

assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments
*Timeline Points
*RAFT/Summative Diary
Project

*Text book review

Minnesota Transitions Curriculum Mapping

High School: Minnesota Transitions Charter School
Course: World Geography
Timelin
e
5/18-6/4

Content/Standard

Skills

Antarctica: Relative and Absolute Location

& Global Warming

*Formal paragraphs
*Metacognition
*Organization
*Reflective Writing
*Interpreting images
*Predicting consequences

Demonstrate how people are connected to

each other and the environment.

Assessment
assessments
*Daily reading and
writing
Assignments

Describe how humans influence the

environment and in turn are influenced by
it.

Teacher: Troy Willemssen

Content

Resources

History,
government,
economy, culture,
current issues,
causes of global
warming and future
implications.

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Course description: World Geography is a course designed to meet the Minnesota Academic Standards in Geography. The course will begin by briefly reviewing
the basics of maps and geographical perspective that are covered in 9th grade U.S. Geography. The course will then survey the physical and human geography of
the worlds regions.
Essential Skills and Common Assessments:
2. <V.C5.10> Students will cite a variety of examples of how economic or political changes in other parts of the world can affect their lifestyle.
<T10: Human Geography of Monsoon Asia; Ch28, Ch32>
3. <V.C> Students will explain how the regionalization of space into political units affects human behavior.
<T4: Human Geography of Europe/Russia; Ch14>
4. <V.C3.3> Students will understand the patterns of colonialism and its legacies.
<T6: Human Geography of Africa; Ch22, Ch23>