Social Studies HS Guide

habitat loss.

○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will use geographic reasoning to propose actions that mitigate or solve issues, such as: ● natural disasters ● cooperation and con fl ict ● pollution ● climate change ● habitat loss NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with social studies to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a geography course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: WG Standard 1: ○ Source Analysis • Who wrote this? • What is the author’s perspective? • Why was it written? • When was it written? • Where was it written? • Is this source reliable? Why? Why not? ○ Contextualization • When and where was the document created? • What was different then? • What was the same? • How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content? POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS ● How does the physical geography of a place in fl uence the lives of the people in that place? ● What are the most signi fi cant consequences of human interactions with their environment? ● How do physical and human characteristics help geographers de fi ne a region? ● How are places and regions connected? ○ How are they similar? ○ How are they different? ● How does the environment in fl uence which agricultural methods are used in various places? ● What are the intended and unintended effects of altering our physical landscape? ● How do geographers use geospatial data to help make informed decisions? VOCABULARY

● biome ● climate ● climate change ● ecosystem ● erosion ● natural resources ● plate tectonics ● natural disasters ● physical system