Subject: 7th Grade World Cultures & Geography--Unit/ Lesson: Geography of Asia…Climbing Mount Everest

Dates: March 8 to March 12, 2010 Week # 29 Irving

GPS Standards… Objective… / Activities…Performance Task…
Procedures & Resources/materials / Essential Questions…
Enduring Understanding..
Bloom’s/Costa’s QuestionsAssessment
Formative – teacher observation
Summative- Unit Test / SIP Goals/
Reading & Writing
Across the Curriculum
Monday
March 8
SS7G12 a,b,c / Essential Question: How was religion important to the development of the cultures of Asia?
Movie Maker Asian Religions Project---students will research one of the major religions/philosophies of Asia and complete a Movie Maker multi-media presentation.
Homework---Current Event due Tuesday / Formative assessment of related standards Summative assessment of Movie Maker Project
Differentiation based on interest and content / Reading extemporaneous text to take notes as research.
Using maps to calculate time and distance
Tuesday
March 9
SS7G12 a,b,c / Essential Question: How was religion important to the development of the cultures of Asia?
Movie Maker Asian Religions Project---students will research one of the major religions/philosophies of Asia and complete a Movie Maker multi-media presentation.
Homework---Read The World’s Heritage on page 592. Create a list of items that could be found in modern society. / Formative assessment of related standards Summative assessment of Movie Maker Project
Differentiation based on interest and content / Reading extemporaneous text to take notes as research.
Wednesday
March 10
SS7G12 a,b,c / Essential Question: How was religion important to the development of the cultures of Asia?
Movie Maker Asian Religions Project---students will research one of the major religions/philosophies of Asia and complete a Movie Maker multi-media presentation. / Formative assessment of related standards Summative assessment of Movie Maker Project
Differentiation based on interest and content / Reading extemporaneous text to take notes as research.
Thursday
March 11
SS7G12 a,b,c / Essential Question: How was religion important to the development of the cultures of Asia?
Movie Maker Asian Religions Project---students will research one of the major religions/philosophies of Asia and complete a Movie Maker multi-media presentation.
Homework---Answer questions associated with Trade Routes in Ancient Southern Asia: Geography Skillbuilder-Interpreting a map and Reading Social Studies A. Analyzing (same page) / Formative assessment of related standards Summative assessment of Movie Maker Project
Differentiation based on interest and content / Reading extemporaneous text to take notes as research.
Friday
March 12
SS7G12 a,b,c / Essential Question: How was religion important to the development of the cultures of Asia?
Movie Maker Asian Religions Project---students will research one of the major religions/philosophies of Asia and complete a Movie Maker multi-media presentation.
Homework-Using the map on page 574 of your textbook, compute the mileage from Kabul, Afghanistan to Hanoi, Vietnam and from Hanoi, Vietnam to Jakarta, Indonesia (on the island of Java) and then Jakarta back to Kabul. You will have three distances and a total with wording as above. / Formative assessment of related standards Summative assessment of Movie Maker Project
Differentiation based on interest and content / Reading extemporaneous text to take notes as research.

SS7G12 The student will analyze the diverse cultures of the people who live in Southern and Eastern Asia.

a. Explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group.

b. Compare and contrast the prominent religions in Southern and Eastern Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism and the philosophy of Confucianism.

c. Evaluate how the literacy rate affects the standard of living.