Description
Human Geography is a full year course of transcriptable high school social science that covers the patterns and processes that have shaped our human understanding, use and alteration of the Earth’s surface. This secular but inclusive course is offered in Naperville as a full year hybrid course with in-person class meetings once/week for 1.5 hour with additional work done between classes qualifying for 1 full credit of transcriptable social science.
Human Geography
In-person class Tuesdays, 9:00-10:25 am with an additional approximately 2 to 2-1/2 hours of work to be done between classes. (Parents may opt to enroll in our Supported Homework Session/s to contribute toward completing work done outside of regular class time)
Registration is now only open for the Spring 2024 semester.
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The key concepts for Human Geography are:
- Use and think about maps and spatial data
- Understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places
- Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes
- Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
- Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places
Minimum content covered in the course include:
- The Nature and perspective of geography
- Population and migration
- Cultural patterns and processes
- Political organization of space
- Agriculture, food production and rural land use
Additional content may be covered depending on the pace of student learning and the direction their discovery moves.
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Primary Text (available free through OER Commons): Introduction to Human Geography (2nd Edition) by David Dorrell, Joseph P. Henderson
Other Required Course Materials
- 3 ring binder with 3-5 dividers (more dividers are fine, but fewer will be difficult)
- Filler paper
- Black or blue ballpoint pens and pencils
- One set of colored pencils (at least 6 different colors)
- Ruler
Additionally, students will need technical ability to access Zoom, Nearpod.com, Discovery Education Streaming, Study.com and Schoology.com (Schoology will require an e-mail address for student access).
At home, students will need access to the internet (home or library) to look up information, related published materials and/or videos and do work through our class learning management system. Some videos will be subscription-based and issued by illuminat-ED (all students will have accounts for Discovery Streaming and Study.com for additional video support). Some videos will be freely available.
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Students can expect to spend 2 to 2-1/2 hours/week doing additional work, readings and other class preparation. Combined with our live class time, this is a total of 3-1/2 to 4 hours/week for a course total of 112-128 hours. This equates to one full credit using the Carnegie unit methodology.
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Live class time will assume students have done their pre-reading, online content, offline work and fieldwork (if any). We will be collaboratively sharing at-home work/results and discussing results in the context of the assigned readings in addition to doing practical activities
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Course time will be devoted to discussion related to the content that is the culmination of the students pre-reading and other assigned activities for the week. Pre-reading and asynchronous work is an essential component for this class. In addition to listening and taking notes, students are expected to actively participate in the course, through asking and answering questions and doing research to expand on the material.
Varied cultural and religious factors that contribute to human systems will be discussed in-class and the students will need to participate in these discussions in a respectful and mature manner.
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