Combinations in South Asia
Scaffold Steps
Learn position
words
Direction,
downstream
Explain how
mountains, deserts,
canyons combine
to make natural
“fences” around
South Asia
Identify
consequences of
monsoons
interacting with
terrain and soil at
different scales
Trace effects of
post-colonial
partition
interacting with
culture and
environment.
Grade Level Content Expectations/Major
K-G1.0.2: Use environmental directions or positional
words(up/down, in/out, above/below) to identify
significant locations in the classroom
1-G1.0.3: Use personal directions (left, right, front, back) to
describe the relative location of significant places in the
school environment
2-G1.0.2: Use maps to describe the spatial organization of
the local community by applying concepts including
relative location and using distance, direction, and scale
7-G1.1.1: Explain and use a variety of maps, globes, and
web-based geography technology to study the world
including global, interregional, regional and local scales.
7-G1.2.1: Locate the major landforms, rivers and climate
regions of the Eastern hemisphere
7-G1.2.6: Apply the skills of geographic inquiry to analyze
a problem or issue of importance to a region of the
Eastern Hemisphere.
7-G2.1.1: Describe the landform features and the climate of
the region under study.
7-G2.1.2: Use information from GIS, remote sensing and
the World Wide Web to compare and contrast the surface
features and vegetation of the continents of the Eastern
Hemisphere.
Missing/cross curriculum
E.ES.01.32 Observe
and collect data of
weather conditions
over a period of time.
E.ES.07.72: Describe how
different weather occurs
due to the constant
motion of the
atmosphere from the
energy of the sun
reaching surface of the
Earth.
E.ES.07.74: Describe
weather conditions
associated with frontal
boundaries (cold, warm,
stationary, and occluded)
and the movement of
major air masses and the
jet stream across North
America using a weather
map.
HS World History and Geography: Contemporary Global
Issues
CG2: Resources: Explain the changes over the past 50
years in the use, distribution, and importance of natural
resources on human life, settlement, and interactions by
describing and evaluating the impact of humans on the
global environment.
Scaffolding Combinations in South Asia
Michigan GLCEs and HSCEs