Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Geographic features can be organized into regions in order to understand activities and processes within and between places.
- Formal, functional, and perceptional regions; land use, urban growth, natural disaster, commodity, Internet connectivity, globalization, sustainability, international cooperation.
- Physical regions—landforms, climates, bodies of water, resources.
- Human regions—language, religion, culture, economy, government.
- Cultural influences characterizing regions—language, religion, ethnicity, iconography, symbology, stereotypes how to use regions for identification of related phenomena, interpretation of processes causing regional change, analysis of interactions among regions in terms of economic activities, migration, cultural diffusion, and evaluation of the impacts of globalization.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Construct various types of regions, determine regional boundaries or transitional boundary zones.
- Read and analyze thematic maps that display information, such as climate, religion, international commodity flows, arranged by geographic regions.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Regions are a way of organizing spatial (geographic) information for specific social, economic, and political purposes.
Vocabulary
- regional geography
- functional and perceptual regions
- spatial process and regional change
- regional interactions
- culture
- perception
- globalization
