【Geography】（Social Science/Humanities-Geography）

Standards: Common Core State Standards

Assessment: Essays, tests, presentations, and project work

This course is designed for the study of the physical and human geography of selected regions around the world. Students will explore,describe, analyze, and seek to understand the spatial arrangement of objects and people on theEarth’s surface.

By the end of this course, students will be able to identify features of the earth’s surface and the processes that shape it.They will be able to recognize the relationships between people and environments, and the connections between people and places. Students will obtain the skills they need in order to help them answer questions about where things are, how they got there, and how they interact with other things – in the past, present, and in the future.