1. Coping with Change: Preparing for Success on the Grade 10 Texas Assessment of Educational Knowledge and Skills

2. Three Step Program  Review the World Geography/World History Guide…  Introduce a strategy to analyze the connections…  Examine ways to integrate Grade 8 content into Grade 10 World Geography…  Explore one WG/WH connection in depth…  Consider a teaching strategy--teaching with maps--as a pathway for student success…

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5. WG/WH Guide Format World Geography Student Expectation World History Student Expectation Examples of Common Concepts in WG/WH WG1History: The student understands how geographic contexts and processes of spatial exchange (diffusion) influenced events in the past and helped to shape the present. The student is able to (A) Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns… WH12 Geography: The student understands the impact of geographic factors on major historical events. The student is expected to: (B) Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic factors on major events in world history. Effects of physical and human geographic factors on past and present events such as: Change: how and why places and processes change Perception: how and why peoples’ perceptions of events change Relationships: how and why geography influences and affects…

6. WG/WH Format Examples of Clarifying Strategies Objective 2 Correlation: WG 1A and WH 12B Patterns of Migration Strategy: Trace the geographic factors that contribute to migrations and the effects of such migrations. Identify why people moved (push-pull factors), the factors that influenced their destinations, and the effects of migration on both their point of origin and destination. Concrete examples…

7. World Geography & World History TAKS Correlations

9. Correlations-Connections  Patterns of Migration  Influence of Spatial Exchange  Patterns of Urbanization  Interpreting Historical Maps  Economic Systems  Economic Relationships  Processes of Change  Human-Environmental Relationships  Geographic Data Analysis  Application of Geographic and Historical Information  Visual Analysis of Geographic and Historical Information

10. Influence of Spatial Exchange  Spatial Diffusion  Spread of phenomena from point of origin to destinations  Rate of spread  Routes and paths of spread  Effects of spread

11. Patterns of Urbanization  Recognizing patterns and interpreting information contained in graphic sources and maps.

12. Interpreting Historical Maps  Analyzing relationships between geography and history through map interpretation

13. Economic Systems  Economic systems:  Characteristics of differing systems  Levels of economic development  Standard of living

14. Economic Relationships  Economic Systems  Characteristics of differing systems  Effects on production  Effects on trade  Systems of exchange

15. Processes of Change  General Processes of Change, and Cause and Effect Relationships

16. Human-Environmental Relationships  Human and Environmental Relationships:  How people, places, and environments are connected and interdependent  How different groups of people use resources and interact with the environment  How resources influence settlement

17. Geographic Data Analysis  Data Analysis and Map Interpretation

18. Application of Geographic & Historical Information  Data analysis and map interpretation

19. Visual Analysis of Geographic and Historical Information  Data analysis and map interpretati on

20. Strategy to Analyze  Use the document available at  Use the document available at http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/wgwhinstitute.htm http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/wgwhinstitute.htm What Am I Already Doing?

22. Strategy to Analyze  Use the document available at  Use the document available at http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/wgwhinstitute.htm http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/wgwhinstitute.htm What Am I Already Doing?  Encourage educators to work individually, then in teams to:  Analyze & discuss each correlation  Consider  What Am I Already Doing?  What Else Can I Do?

33. Review: Three Step Program  Review the World Geography/World History Guide…  Introduce a strategy to analyze the connections…  Examine ways to integrate Grade 8 content into Grade 10 World Geography…