S1+Randall,+Alexander

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= Standard: D2 Geography. Individual, cultural, international, and Global Connections in Geography. Grade Level: Grade 9-Diploma. Students understand geographic aspects of unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and the world, including maine Native American communities. Performance Indicators: D2 a,b ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR or CCSS):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results. ||
 * Content Area: Social Studies

//What understandings are desired?//
• issues of cultural diversity are directly affected by geography. • world geography affects human interactions. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • issues involving people, places, and environments are directly influenced by geography.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How do natural environments around the world affect cultures? • How do environmental factors affect human interactions? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • Why do people live where they live?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
Plate Tectonics, biomes, etc... • Key Factual Information: people use their environments to live. What they have at their disposal affects how they live and interact. • Sequence and Timelines: people's impacts on their environments have changed over time. Natural disasters and wars are affected by the natural environment and directly affect society. || • describe why issues involving people, places, and environments are directly influenced by geography. • evaluate the environment's impact on society and vice versa. • propose why some cultures started where they did. • analyze the impact of geography on human interaction. • consider how the environment affects cultural diversity. • recognize that geography greatly affects society. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Vocabulary: maps, landmasses, longitude, latitude,


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**