Westside High School
World Geography
First Six Weeks
Monday
August 25
Tuesday
26
Wednesday/Thursday
27/28
Friday
29
 Welcome
 Getting to Know You—
Ice Breaker/Student
Info. Sheet
 Create the World
 Syllabus
 Intro to Geography
PPT/ Why Teach
Geography Activity
 Notes:TODALSIGS/Types
 Wrap-Up Types of
Maps
September 1
Labor Day Holiday
2
3/4
5
8
PAP: Assign Current
Event
 Five Themes Activity
(Mini-In-Class
Project)
 Syllabus Quiz/
Parent Form Due

World Geo Pre
Assessment
Set-Up Interactive
Notebook


9

10/11
Quiz: Maps and Five
Themes
Start Regions
Formal, Functional,
and Perceptual
Regions
15
16
Unit 1 Review
Unit 1 TEST
22
 Internal/External
23

Forces of Change

30
of Maps
 Mapping Lab Activity:
Political vs. Physical Maps
Special Purpose Maps
Physical vs. Cultural Regions
Activity—Mapping Regions of
the US Activity
17/18
CURRENT EVENT
PROJECT DUE
Landforms
October 1
Start Unit 2.1 (Physical
Processes)
 Earth’s Spheres
 Internal/External Forces
of Change
24/25
Wrap-Up Landforms
Start Unit 2.2: Earth-Sun
Relations
2
 Notes: Five Themes
of Geography
 Five Themes Activity
12
Article Check 1 (NO
LATE WORK ACCEPTED)
19
Article Check 2
(NO LATE WORK
ACCEPTED)
26
CBA/Benchmark
4
Last Day of 1st 6
Weeks