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Social Studies
Pacing Guide
Grade 7
Pacing Guide Expectations
The pacing guide content standards are listed as Focus Standards, which are standards that must be
taught. Learning Goals are what students are expected to be able to do at the end of the unit. Key
Vocabulary is listed for each unit, which includes academic, content-specific, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and
12 Powerful Words* . The Suggested Texts are options provided for each unit; however, teachers may
choose to alter these as needed, provided the Focus Standards and Learning Goals are met for each unit.
This guide is a work in progress that will be built on and edited annually as needed.
*Larry Bell
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
Remember
Describe/Explain
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Powerful Words*
Analyze
Compare
Contrast
Describe
Evaluate
Explain
Formulate
Infer
Predict
Summarize
Support
Trace
*Larry Bell
Assessment
Topic
Physical Geography
Standard(s)
7.3.1 Identify and use the basic elements of maps and mapping.
7.3.2 Locate the Earth’s major physical characteristics (i.e., 7 continents, 4 oceans).
7.3.6 Locate on a map specific lines of longitude and latitude (i.e., Prime Meridian, International
Date Line, Equator, North and South Poles, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic Antarctic
circles).
7.3.9 Identify the location of Earth’s major landforms and bodies of water (i.e., Rockies, Andes,
Himalayas, Alps, Urals, Sahara desert, Nile River Valley, Great Plains, Mississippi River, Amazon
River, Thames River, Seine River, Rhine River, Danube River, Tigris River, Euphrates River,
Ganges River, Volga River, and Yellow River).
7.3.10 Identify the characteristics that define a region geographically.
7.3.11 Recognize specific physical processes that operate on the Earth’s surface (i.e., erosion,
volcanoes, earthquakes, wind and water currents, plate tectonics, and weathering).
7.3.15 Interpret a map indicating scale, distance and direction.
7.3.17 Read and interpret a time zone map.
Suggested Time Frame
9 weeks
Learning Goal
Understand the
characteristics and uses of
maps, globes, and other
geographic tools and
technologies.
Essential Questions
Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy
1) How will one identify,
Analyze
Describe, and be able to
locate on a map basic
elements of a map?
2) Compare/contrast different
types of maps that are
available to show both human
and physical characteristics
of earth.
Activities
Analyze the
differences
between different
types of maps.
Common Core
Reading/Writing
N/A
Vocabulary
Political map
Physical map
Climatic map
Land-user resource
Contour
Elevation
Topographic
Learning Goal
Bloom’s
Essential Questions Revised
Taxonomy
Create
Activities
Common Core
Reading/Writing
Label a series of N/A
maps with places
and symbols.
Student will
create own map
using the above
information.
Know the location of
places and geographic
features, both physical and
human, locally, regionally,
and globally.
1) Why do physical and
human processes create
patterns on earth’s
surface?
2) Describe the location
of earth’s major physical
characteristics.
Understand the physical
characteristics of a place.
Remember
1) How do physical and
human characteristics
define and shape a place?
2) Analyze how migration
can influence the
character of a place.
List physical
characteristics
that comprise a
place.
Understand that common
physical characteristics
create regions.
1) Evaluate the criteria
used to define a region.
2) Compare/contrast the
types of regions.
Formulate a tree N/A
map describing
the characteristics
of a region.
Create
Formulate
Describe
N/A
Vocabulary
Delta
Peninsula
Desert
Bay
Isthmus
Sea level
Elevation
Continents
Ocean
Tectonic plates
Continental drift
Region
Rainforest
Plains
Mountains
Desert
Delta
Learning Goal
Understand how physical
processes shape the earth’s
natural landscapes and
affect environments.
Bloom’s
Essential Questions Revised
Taxonomy
Create
1) Explain how
Earth’s physical
processes change
landforms.
2) 2) Examine the
consequences of
physical processes
on Earth’s surface.
Activities
Create a bar
graph showing
the various
physical
processes.
Common Core
Reading/Writing
N/A
Vocabulary
Erosion
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Wind currents
Water currents
Plate tectonics
Weathering
Unit One: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Essential Question: ________________________________________________________________________________
Suggested Texts/Resources
www.tncore.org – click on link for “Literacy in Social Studies”; summer training materials can be found here
username: tneducation; password: fastestimproving
http://tntel.tnsos.org/curricular.htm