STUDENT LEARNING MAP
Curriculum Map of Unit
Key Learning(s):
Topic:
Earth’s Geographic Features (Chapter 1 pp. 19-47)
Unit Essential Question(s):
Grade: 6
Optional Instructional Tools:
Earth’s Landforms
Describe how Earth’s landforms,
bodies of water, climate/vegetation,
and natural resources affected
physical processes, our environment,
and how we adapt.
How do Earth’s physical
processes create patterns in the
environment, and affect humans,
forcing, them to adapt and change
Earth’s surfaces?
Textbook, atlas, Geoskills, internet, globe maps, graphic
organizers, United Streaming videos.
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Earth’s landforms
(pp. 20-25)
Earth’s Bodies of Water
(pp. 26-31)
Earth’s Climates and
Vegetation (pp. 34-39)
Earth’s Natural Resources
(pp.. 40-45)
SS: 7.2.6A,B; 7.4.6A,B
CC: 8.5.6-8C,D,G,J
SS: 7.2.6A,B; 7.4.6A,B
CC: 8.5.6-8D,G,J
SS: 7.1.6A; 7.2.6A,B
CC: 8.5.6-8D,G,J
SS: 7.1.6A; 7.2.6A,B; 7.3.6C, D;
7.4.6B
CC: 8.5.6-8D,G,J
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does latitude and altitude
affect human environments?
How do land, water, and climate
regions affect our environment?
What is the relationship between
climate and vegetation?
What are renewable and
nonrenewable resources?
How do natural resources and
humans interact?
What forces of the Earth cause
geographic changes?
How do humans change Earth and
its environment?
What are some different bodies of
water and how are they formed?
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Landforms, plate tectonics,
continental drift, fault, erosion,
weathering, deposition, floodplain,
delta
Tributary, river system,
drainage basin, current, tide, water
cycle
Temperate, latitude,
altitude, vegetation, land breeze,
sea breeze, rain shadow, arid,
climate
renewable resource,
nonrenewable resource,
conservation, recycle, scarce,
biological resource
Other Information: See attached document for definitions of Common Core and State Standards
Revised April 2013
Revised April 2013