Codes: CC: Curriculum Central Document: GA: Geography Alive! Book: MLWG: McDougal Littel World Geography Book : Jarrett: Jarrett Review Book
1st Six Weeks
Theme: Basics of World Geography
Concepts
Topics
Tools of Geography
Map Making
Types of Maps
Five Themes
Map Projections
World Regions
North America
Latin America
Europe, West and East
Russia and CIS
Africa, North, Horn, West,
Central, Southern
Southwest Asia
South Asia
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Australia
Oceania and Pacific Islands
Types of Regions: Formal,
Functional, Perceptual
Theme: Geology
Concepts
Topics
Physical Geography
Structure of the Earth
Four Spheres
Plate tectonics (Ring of Fire)
Geology (Internal & External
Forces)
Landforms
Water forms
Weathering
Erosion
River Systems
Natural Barriers
TEKS
5.A, 21.C, 3, 9, 8,
6, 7, 13.A, 21.A,
21.B, 22.A, 20.A,
2.B
8.A, 22.B, 9.B,
22.C,4.A
Scope and Sequence Topics
Tools of Geography
TEKS
3.B, 4.B, 3.C, 8.B,
21.C, 22.C, 22.A ,
7.B, 21.B, 2.A,
22.B, 23.A, 21.A,
5.B, 21.A
Scope and Sequence Topics
The Earth Inside & Out
Geographic Foundations in each region
Ring of Fire
Amazon Basin
Resources
CC: Unit 1 Topic 1; Unit 4 Topic 1
GA: Ch. 2, 3, 4
MLWG: Ch. 1
CC: Unit 2 Topic 1; Unit 4 Topic 1; Unit 6
Topic 1; Unit 7 Topic 1; Unit 8 Topic 1;
Unit 9 Topic 1; Unit 10 Topic 1; Unit 11
Topic 1
MLWG: Ch 6
GA: pg 504
Jarrett: Ch 5
Resources
CC: Unit 1 Topic 2; Unit 2 Topic 1; Unit 3
Topic 1; Unit 4 Topic 1; Unit 5 Topic 1;
Unit 6 Topic 1; Unit 7 Topic 1; Unit 8
Topic 1; Unit 9 Topic 1; Unit 10 Topic 1
Topic 2; Unit 11 Topic 1
GA: Ch 2, 4, 6, 12, 17, 19, 29, 34,
Mapping Labs
MLWG: Ch 2, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 15.1, 18.1,
21.1, 24.1, 27.1, 30.1,pgs. 273-280, 282,
336-356, 415-427, 487-499, 567, 573,
542-549, 551, 610-631, 689-690, 694695, 712-717
Jarrett: Ch 6
Theme: Climate & Vegetation
Concepts
Climate
2nd Six Weeks
Theme: Culture
Concepts
World