Download Core Text: Geography Alive!

Introducing the Region:
Physical and Human
Geography
 Spatial Inequality in
Mexico City
 Land Use Conflict in the
Amazon Rainforest
Core Text: Geography Alive!
Standards:
SAM.1 On a map of the world, locate South America and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On a map of South
America, locate the Amazon, the Andes Mountains, Cape Horn, and the southern, northern, eastern, and western
regions of South America.
SAM.2 Use a map key to locate the countries and major cities of South America.
SAM.3 Explain how the following five factors have influenced settlement and economies of major South American
countries.
 Absolute and relative location
 Climate
 Major physical characteristics
 Major natural resources
 Population size
SAM.4 Identify when South America countries become independent nations and explain how independence was
achieved.
HAG1 Use map and globe skills learned in prekindergarten to grade five to interpret different kinds of projections
as well as topographic land forms, political, population and climate maps.
HAG2 Use geographic terms correctly, such as delta, glacier, location, settlement, region, natural resource, human
resources, mountain, hill, plain, plateau, river, island, isthmus, peninsula, erosion, climate, drought, monsoon,
hurricane, ocean, and wind currents, tropics, rain forest, tundra, desert, continent, country, nation, and urbanization.
Key Questions:
Skills and Outcomes: When students have finished
Why does spatial inequality
exist in urban areas?
 How should the resources
of the rainforests be used
and preserved?
studying this topic, they will know and be able to:
Content: Unit 3
Central America/South
America
Major Concepts:
The physical and political
geography of Central America
and South America and embed
five major concepts: location,
place, human interaction with
the environment, movement,
and regions.
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Chapter 9
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Mapping Lab: Label political and physical boundaries.
INB pg.70/ 71.
Preview: describe a place by its physical and human
features.
Activity: Visiting 4 Neighborhoods in Mexico City
Formative/Summative Assessments:
Students
will complete the following products/other assessments to
demonstrate the skills and understandings they have
acquired.
 Mapping Lab Assessments: Central America
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Writing for Understanding pg.211-213. Visiting
4 Neighborhoods in Mexico City. Transparencies
9A-9G, CD tracks 5-10
Cause and Effect Writing Assignment:
Newspaper article focuses on the causes and
consequences of urbanization. (pg.213)
Mastering the Content Quiz -Assessment 9
Chapter 12
 Preview Activity: Land proposals, support and debate
position. INBPg. 90
 Use transparency 12A : I See/It Means
 Response Group/Jigsaw: Pair/Share information
collected on groups living in the Amazon rainforest.(
pg. 283-286.)
 Use Student Interactive Notebooks pg. 92-94.
 In mixed ability groups, students will prepare
presentations regarding which group has the most
legitimate claim to decide what should be done to
preserve or use the resources of the Amazon rainforest.
 Applying Geography Skills pg. 218
Chapter 12
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Mapping Lab Assessments: South America
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Mastering the Content Quiz- Assessment 12 pg.
289
Presentations: News Report
Project: Research and deliver a project based on
ways to preserve the rainforest.
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