Australia: Outback House

EQ: What was life really like in Australia?

 

Engage: Vocabulary

• drought
• global warming
• seminomadic
• continent
• volcano
• vegetation
• Aborigine
• earthquake
• cyclone
• urbanization
• arid
• subsistence farming
• greenhouse effect
• indigenous
• deforestation

Explore:

• Outback House video

Explain:

• What was life like for ranchers?
• Who are the Aboriginal Australians?
• What are the resources of Australia
• How have the people adapted to varying climate and terrain?
• How has human activity damaged the environment in Australia?

 

Evaluate:

Sub Saharan Africa Map

  

 EQ: What countries inhabit the continent of Africa?

Engage:

• Africa Destination World (2:50) Nat Geo Kids

Explore:

• Map of Africa

Explain:

• What countries are in Africa?
• What capital cities are in the nations of Africa?
• What oceans surround Africa?

Evaluate:

• Draw and Label the continent of Africa
• Label all the nations in Africa
• Label all the capitals in the nations in Africa
• Label the Oceans around Africa
• Color the map

Life in the West

  

EQ: What was life really like in the west?

Engage: Vocabulary

• forty-niners
• vaquero
• missionary
• reservation
• Mormons
• Oregon Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

Explore:

• Lure of the West
• Endless Labor on the Farm
• Traders and Fortune Seekers
• Frontier House Part 1 video
• Rushing Toward Riches
• Claiming Native Tribal Lands
• A New Wave of Immigrants
• Texas Ranch House video
• The Mormon Trail to Salt Lake City
• Expanding Into the Southwest
• The Struggle for Freedom in the West
• Opportunities, Gender, and Challenges in the West
• Texas Ranch House Episode 2 video

Explain:

• What was life like for farmers?
• What events attracted settlers to New Mexico and California
• What was life like for a miner?
• Why were Native Americans forced onto reservations?
• Why did Asians immigrate to California?
• Why did Mormons relocate?
• Who were America's first cowboys?

Evaluate:

• Comparison Chart

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Iran

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 Engage:

• Iran: Yesterday and Today Rick Steves
• Vocabulary

1. Arabic
2. Aramaic
3. Hebrew
4. Kurds
5. Berbers
6. Persians

Explore:

• Many Ethnicities and Languages
• Kurdistand: A Nation without a Country

Explain:

• How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?
• How have ethnic differences led to conflict in the Kurdish regions of Southwest Asia?

Evaluate:

Cut Paper Presidential Portrait

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/painting-the-presidents/

EQ: Which President will you choose to make a portrait of?

Engage:

• Presidential Portraits

Explore:

•   Torn Paper Portrait

Explain:

•  Choose a President from 1824-1859 and look at their picture.

Evaluate:

• Create a torn paper portrait of your chosen President. 

Cities of the Underworld: Southeastern Turkey

  

 

EQ: What was found in Capodocia?

Engage:

• How does ground penetrating radar work?

Explore:

• Cities of the Underworld Secret Pagan Underground S1 Ep 5

Explain:

• How old was the site?
• What was the site?
• Who found the site?
• Where is the site?
• When was the site found?
• Why is the site important?

Evaluate:

• Answer the 5 W's and H questions. 

People and Culture of Northwest Africa and Southwest Asia: Turkey

  

 EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 Engage:

• Central Turkey Rick Steves (25:03)
• Expedition Unknown S2 Ep13 The Sultan's Heart (Disney+)

Explore:

• Regional Conflict
• Tensions within Islam

Explain:

• What are the cultural elements that unite North Africa and Southwest Asia?
• How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. Mesopotamia
2. Sinai Peninsula
3. Silk Road
4. Mansa Musa
5. Nubia
6. Babylon

Extend:

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Palestine

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• Palestine Rick Steves

Explore:

• Christianity
• Islam

Explain:

• How did Christianity become the world's largest religion?
• How did Islam become the dominant religion in the region?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. Sahara
2. Giza
3. Black Sea
4. Fertile Crescent
5. Sumer

Presidents 1824-1849

 

EQ: Which of these Presidents faced the most challenges?

Engage:

• None 

Explore:

• The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: A Rocky Transition as America Grows (1824-1849) Apple TV
• Trail of Tears National Historic Trail National Park Service 

Explain:

• Andrew Jackson easily won the popular vote. Why did he fail to win the presidency?
• What was Jackson’s approach toward the Native population?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

People of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Israel

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• The Best of Israel Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism

Explain:

• What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
• How did Judaism begin?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. fertile
2. Gaza Strip
3. Nile River
4. Dead Sea
5. Golan Heights

Westward Expansion Day 5

 

EQ: How did the California Gold Rush impact the United States?

Explore:

• Ken Burns The West Episode 3 on iTunes
• Gold Rush Game

Explain:

• What impact did the Gold Rush have on westward movement?
• Why is Kit Carson famous?
• How did California secede from Mexico?

Evaluate:

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Egypt

 

Can you decode this hieroglyph? 

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• Decode the Hieroglyphs
• Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
• Hieroglyphic Typewriter

Explore:

• Egypt: Yesterday and Today Rick Steves (55:02)
• Geography Now Egypt
• Geography Now Difference Between Arab Countries

Explain:

• How has Egypt changed since World War II?
• How does Egypt's past influence their present?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves Worksheet
• Ancient Egypt Jeopardy Game 

Westward Expansion Day 4

 

EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Game Day:

• Oregon Trail Game

Westward Expansion

 EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Engage:

• Oregon Trail Game
• Vocabulary

1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2. Manifest Destiny
3. forty-niners
4. prospect
5. empresario
6. merchant,
7. Gadsden Purchase
8. abolition
9. subsistence farming
10. Santa Fe Trail
11. California Gold Rush
12. Oregon Territory
13. Mormons
14. Oregon Trail
15. Donner Party

Explore:

•  Manifest Destiny
• The Oregon Country
• The Republic of Texas
• The Mexican American War
• The Southwest
• Trailblazers

Explain:

• What was Manifest Destiny?
• How did the US acquire the Oregon Territory?
• How did the US acquire Texas?
• What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
• How did the US gain control of the Southwest?
• Who were some of the famous explorers of the western US?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 2

   

EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

•   Americans Try Russian Holiday Food  (6:54)

Explore:

• Religious Life in Central Asia
• A Revival of Religion
• Food and Arts

Explain:

• What religious beliefs do the people of Russia and Central Asia have?
• How has religious practices changed since the fall of the Soviet Union?
• What food and arts are common in Russia and Central Asia?

Vocabulary: 

1. gulags
2. Cold War
3. atheism
4. Warsaw Pact
5. minority
6. diversity
7. pogroms
8. Silk Road
9. cultural diffusion
10. persecution

Evaluate:

Worksheet

7B Vocabulary Assessment

7C Vocabulary Assessment

7A Vocabulary Assessment