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Oroville Union High School District
History-Social Science Curriculum
History-Social Science - Geography

Themes of Geography
Location: Spatial Context
The learner will be able to develop an awareness of where things are located and the relation to each other. Information can be mapped, organized, and analyzed in a spatial context (e.g. latitude, longitude, atlas, coordinates, degrees, etc).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Physical Characteristics
The learner will be able to study both the physical characteristics as well as the human characteristics that make each area unique (e.g. determine directions on the earth's surface, measure distance between places, and interpret information available through the maps legend, scale of miles, and symbolic representations).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Environmental Issues
The learner will be able to study the relationship of human interaction with their environment (e.g. people change the environment to fit their needs, land use, agriculture, mining, tourism, and the consequences of those changes). They will look at the major environmental issues confronting modern societies and of the consequences, intentional and unintentional, of human decisions that affect the environment.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Transportation Networks
The learner will be able to analyze how much of the landscape of cities and countrysides today is marked by transportation networks providing for the continual movement of goods, people, ideas, and information throughout a globally interdependent world. This shows the diffusion of ideas, technological innovations, and goods, and thereby sets change in motion.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
World Regions
The learner will be able to analyze world regions and their historical, cultural, economic, and political characteristics (e.g. the characteristics of both formal and functional regions).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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Changes in Earth's Surface
Geological Processes
The learner will be able to analyze the various geological processes that affect earth (e.g. internal forces such as volcanic activity, plate tectonics, earthquakes, and folding and faulting).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Mechanical & Chemical Weathering
The learner will be able to study mechanical and chemical weathering as forces that change landforms (e.g. rock weathering, acid rain, forces of erosion, water, wind, and glacial activity).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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Climate & Vegetation
Climate
The learner will be able to study factors like location, latitude, elevation, and landforms and how they influence the climate of place (e.g. ration and revolution of the earth in space, wind patterns such as El Nino, ocean currents, orographic effect, hydrologic cycles, types of precipitation, and the worlds climatic regions).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Vegetation Regions
The learner will be able to study the four different kinds of vegetation regions which are forests, grasslands, deserts, and tundra (e.g. biomes, vegetation regions, tropical rain forests, deciduous and coniferous forests, grasslands, and the permafrost).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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Population Trends
Population Distribution
The learner will be able to study population distribution throughout the world (e.g. population density, growth, birth and death rates, and urban/rural continuum).
Strand Scope Source
Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Culture
The learner will be able to analyze how people develop a set of customs, beliefs, and actions that make up its culture.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Government Structures & Power
The learner will be able to study how governments differ in their structure and in the source of their political power (e.g. authoritarian, dictatorship, totalitarianism, monarchy, and democracy).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Economic Systems
The learner will be able to analyze various economic systems and how they decide which goods will be produced, how they will be produced, and how they will be distributed (e.g. capitalism, communism, and socialism).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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Natural Resources
Renewable & Non-Renewable Resources
The learner will be able to study both renewable and non-renewable resources and discuss the different energy sources (e.g. fossil fuels, nuclear energy, geothermal energy, solar energy, and their effect on the environment).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Land & Resource Use
The learner will be able to study economic activities in which people use land and resources in order to earn their living (e.g. manufacturing and agriculture).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Stages of Economic Development
The learner will be able to study the different stages of economic development in various countries (e.g. developed and undeveloped countries, gross domestic products, per capita GDP, subsistence farming, and commercial farming).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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Cultural Regions
Countries & Cities of a Region
The learner will be able to study the countries and cities of the specific region.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Physical Features of a Region
The learner will be able to study the physical features of the specific region.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
People & Cultures of a Region
The learner will be able to study the people and cultures of the specific region.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
Climate & Vegetation of a Region
The learner will be able to study the climate and vegetation of the specific region.
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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Multimedia Project Presentation
Geography Research & Presentation
The learner will be able to research a topic using CD-ROM, Internet, video camera with video editing, and a PowerPoint presentation as a culminating activity).
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Geography Master Oroville Union High School District(a)
  
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