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Book Title: World Regional Geography

Subtitle: People, Places and Globalization

Authors: Royal Berglee, PhD

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Book Description: World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization provides students with a working knowledge of world geography in an easy-to-read format. Basic geographic concepts of world places are presented in concise chapters, and each chapter provides a foundational framework for understanding the development patterns of world regions. For questions about this textbook please contact [email protected]

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World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization is adapted from a work published by Flatworld Knowledge in 2012. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. For questions about this textbook please contact [email protected]

World Regional Geography Copyright © 2016 by University of Minnesota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License , except where otherwise noted.

World Geography

These multi-purpose social studies resources, worksheets, and map activities offer a variety of applications. Kids will develop spatial thinking and learn about continents, countries, oceans, hemispheres, longitudes, and latitudes, as well as political and historical maps. 

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World Geography Unit

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Looking for engaging activities and lesson plans for teaching world geography? This World Geography Unit comes with detailed lesson plans, hands-on activities, worksheets, map activities, digital activities, passages and questions, assessments, and much more! Whether teaching in-person or virtually, you will save time planning and your students will love learning about the continents and oceans as they complete the hands-on activities.

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World Geography Unit is a hands-on unit that combines social studies and language arts skills! Everything you need to teach about the continents and important geographical features can be found here! Whether teaching in-person or remotely, this unit provides a variety of activities to teach about geography.

To take a closer look at this unit, be sure to check out the product images at the top of the page!

What will I find in this unit?

This World Geography Unit includes 7 detailed lesson plans. All lessons are hands-on and incorporate literacy skills. Students will investigate—

• Africa (Nile River, Atlas Mountains, Sahara Desert)
• Asia (Huang He River, Himalaya Mountains, Gobi Desert)
• Europe (Mediterranean Sea, Alps Mountains, Italian Peninsula)
• North America (Mississippi River, Rio Grande, Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes)
• South America (Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest, Andes Mountains)

This World Geography Unit also comes with:

• 23 Worksheets
• 5 Close Reading Passages and Comprehension Questions
• 6 Entry/Exit Tickets
• Word Wall Cards
• Timeline of Suggested Activities: The timeline of suggested activities includes a timeline for using the activities included within this unit and provides links to websites featuring videos about concepts being taught.
• Answer keys included throughout

Students will become fully immersed in world geography as they complete hands-on projects and take virtual field trips!

Are digital resources included?

All of the passages and comprehension questions, most worksheets, and the test within this World Geography Unit are also included in a digital format and can be shared with students using your Google Drive.

When you purchase this product, you will be given access to a link that will allow you to open the file in Google Slides. You’ll then share that file with your students. The slides can be printed and adapted for students who prefer to answer the questions by hand. You can also view and print a student’s completed version of the slides.

What standards are covered?

This unit is aligned with the third-grade social studies SOL 3.6.

While the unit is specifically aligned to the Virginia SOLs, it also closely matches most world geography standards.

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Bring world geography to life in your classroom with these fun lesson plans and activities! Students will master the standards as they become fully immersed in learning about the continents and geographical features through virtual field trips, hands-on and digital activities, and research projects.

Want to save money?

This unit is included in the 3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum bundle for a discounted price!

Other Social Studies Resources:

• World Geography Task Cards
• World Geography Escape Room
• Ancient World Cultures Curriculum Bundle

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World Geography Studies offers a tightly focused and scaffolded curriculum that enables students to explore how geographical features, human relationships, political and social structures, economics, science and technology, and the arts have developed and influenced life in countries around the world. Throughout the course students analyze geographic information such as maps, photographs, and demographic statistics. They also describe and evaluate the influence of globalization. To scaffold their analysis, students are given rigorous instruction on how to read and create maps, charts, and graphs.

To structure knowledge in a manner that allows students to think as geographers, the course is organized around the geographic themes of location, place, religion, migration, and human environment interaction. These themes are addressed through the lenses of physical geography, cultural geography, political geography, and globalization and economics.

Students are supported in applying their new geography skills through a variety of assignments such as Practices, Journals, and Discussions as they examine issues near to home and worldwide.

This course is built to the TEKS World Geography Studies Standards and Benchmarks.

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Exploring World Geography

Complete high school world geography curriculum.

Who Can Use It

Author Ray Notgrass designed the curriculum for students to use successfully anytime in high school--9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, or 12th grade. It combines the flexibility and richness of a literature-based unit study approach with the simplicity of a textbook-based approach.

Daily lessons guide your student on a fascinating journey across our planet, focusing on how people interact with the physical world around them. With the lessons already planned, your student can use the curriculum independently.

What's Included

The Exploring World Geography Curriculum Package includes everything you need for a successful study. If you use the course as written, your student can earn credit in three high school subjects: World Geography, English, and Worldview. However, the course is flexible, so you can adjust the assignments as needed to fit your student's schedule and needs.

• Two beautiful hardbound books feature narrative lessons with hundreds of colorful photographs and illustrations.
• A full-color gazetteer features maps and details about the countries of the world plus supplemental readings.
• Weekly project ideas include a writing assignment and two other creative assignments such as completing an art project, conducting research, or interviewing someone.
• Literature reading and worldview assignments are part of the English and Worldview credits.

We suggest twelve literature titles that coordinate with the lessons and enhance your student's understanding of different parts of the world. We also offer optional review activities and tests.

Watch our intro video and keep reading to learn how the curriculum works, see sample lessons, and read what parents are saying.

Quick Overview

How It Works

Exploring World Geography by Ray Notgrass is a one-year high school course that explores mankind's interaction with the world God made. The curriculum addresses two main questions: How has the physical world made a difference in what people have done, how they have lived, and how they live today? How have people made a difference in the physical world, and how are they making a difference in it today?

Exploring World Geography is designed to be easy to use for parent and student. Each of the 30 weekly units has an introduction that features a summary of the material covered, a list of lessons, Bible memory work, books required for that unit, and suggested writing assignments and hands-on projects. Each of the 150 daily lessons (five lessons per week) includes a list of specific assignments for that day. A focused student can direct his own study, and the parent can offer as much interaction as needed.

The World Geography credit involves reading the lessons and doing the assignments in the Gazetteer (and answering the questions in the optional Student Review if desired). The English credit involves completing several writing assignments, including one research paper; and reading the assigned literature. The Worldview credit involves examining religious and philosophical perspectives and completing worldview assignments that guide the student in building a Christian worldview. The unit projects offer a wide variety of activities that tie into all three subjects.

If you prefer a video overview, watch author Ray Notgrass explain how the components work together as he walks you through a sample unit from the curriculum.

What's In the Curriculum Package

The Exploring World Geography Curriculum Package includes these three books:

Exploring World Geography Part 1

This book has 75 lessons for the first semester. These lessons introduce the study of geography and explore the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

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Exploring World Geography Part 2

This book has 75 lessons for the second semester. These lessons explore Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America, and South America.

Exploring World Geography Gazetteer

This volume contains maps of the continents and regions discussed in the text, a section on each country of the world, and primary source material.

Optional Resources

We offer an optional Student Review Pack to help measure your student's understanding of the material. We also offer a literature package with twelve recommended titles.

Student Review Pack

The Student Review book offers daily review questions, map skills assignments, literature review questions, and literary analysis. The Quiz and Exam Book has a quiz for each unit and six geography, English, and worldview exams. The Guide for Parents and Answer Key includes all the answers needed for the course.

Literature Package

This package includes the twelve books assigned as part of the English credit. It features five nonfiction books and seven fiction books.

What the Lessons Are Like

Exploring World Geography is divided into 30 chronological units with five lessons each. Your student can complete the curriculum in one year by doing one lesson per day for 150 days during your school year.

Your student can read the daily lessons and follow the instructions independently. You as the parent can be involved as much or as little as you desire.

Reading one lesson will take about 20 minutes per day. At the end of each lesson is a list of assignments like this:

Depending primarily on how fast your student reads, he or she may need a total of two to three hours per day to complete the additional readings and work on the weekly project.

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Video Walkthrough

Watch author Ray Notgrass explain how the components of Exploring World Geography work together as he walks you through a sample unit from the curriculum.

Recommended Literature

Reading the literature is part of earning the English credit. If your student has already read one of the assigned books, or you want to choose a different book for any reason, you can substitute a different book.

• Know Why You Believe by Paul Little (Units 1-2)
• Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour with David Hazard (Units 3-4)
• Patricia St. John Tells Her Own Story by Patricia St. John (Units 5-7)
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park (Unit 8)
• The Day the World Stopped Turning by Michael Morpurgo (Units 10-11)
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Units 12-13)
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat (Units 14-15)
• Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth (Units 16-17)
• Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine (Units 18-19)
• Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma by Sharon James (Units 20-21)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (Units 24-25)
• Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Units 27-28)

Read sample lessons and see sample pages from the student review materials with these PDF files.

Table of Contents / Introduction

Unit 8: East Africa

Unit 20: Southeast Asia

Student Review

Guide for Parents / Answer Key

What Parents Are Saying

Clear, interesting, and relevant, biblical worldview, about the author.

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