Geography

Unit 1

• Earth’s equator, hemispheres, continents, and oceans
• Earth’s regions
• Earth’s grid system (lines of latitude and longitude)

Unit 2

• Understanding of map features and use, including scale
• Comparing locations of selected world communities to one’s own country
• Use of a variety of maps to locate and examine selected world communities

Unit 3

• Political and physical features of selected communities
• Ways physical and climate features influence people in selected communities
• Use of maps to identify one’s own location and relative locations

Unit 4

• Location of one’s own local land, regions, river systems, and highways
• History
• How geographical features affect population patterns
• Human adaptations to the geography of the specified world community
• Construction of maps, tables, graphs, charts