1. SOCIAL STUDIES GRADE SEVEN – INTRODUCTION TO WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Characteristics of culture
How does the world interact economically?
GIS
Culture reflects history and geography
What is globalization?
Using the Atlas?
What is
Geography?
What is
Economics?
Latitude and Longitude
Ethnocentrism and tolerance
Culture
Introduction to
World
Geography
Reading specialized maps, graphs, charts, etc.
How does independence affect the world economy?
Why do we need government?
What is
Government?
Comparing types of government/constitutions
Using
the Atlas
Latitude and Longitude
Maps, Globes,
and Atlases
World Government: United Nations
Reading specialized maps, graphs, charts, etc.
GIS
Essential Understandings/Concepts:
• CT.CK Compare and contrast how the status of family, gender and ethnicity has evolved in Connecticut and the United States in relation to other areas worldwide.
• CT.CK Explain how a civilization/nation’s arts, architecture, music and literature reflect its culture and history.
• CT.CK Identify the powers and functions of international governmental bodies.
• CT.CK Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of government in the past and present (e.g. monarchy, dictatorship, representative democracy, parliament).
• CT.CK Compare and contrast the rights and responsibilities of citizens under different forms of government throughout the world.
• CT.CK Compare and contrast different economic systems in the world.
• CT.CK Analyze how different economic systems guide production and distribution
• CT.CK Compare similarities and differences of cultural groups in different world regions (e.g. beliefs, values, traditions, institutions).
• CT.CK Recognize how values, beliefs and attitudes develop in different cultures.
Vocabulary:
Latitude Longitude Compass rose Hemisphere
Equator Parallels Prime Meridian Degrees
GIS Region Climate Natural resources
Physical map Scale Region Population density
Globalization Economy Economics Culture
Trait Ethnocentrism Tolerance Beliefs
Values Traditions Institutions Religion
Interaction United Nations Anarchy Lens
Perception Government Constitution Parliament
Dictatorship Monarchy Theocracy Political
International Geography Trade Trade Deficit
Import Export Representative democracy
World Trade Organization Renewable resources