• Guns Germs and Steel Intro
• Video Notes
• Discussion
• 'Round the World Game
  

• Guns, Germs and Steel and Meso Americnas
• Figure the total percentage of Meso Amemricans killed by small pox
  
• Cortez video
• Begin game

• Work on games in class
• Group work grade - progress grade

• Play games
• Meso American video

AZ Social Studies Standards

Strand 4: Geography

Concept 1:  The World in Spatial Terms

PO 1.  Construct maps using appropriate elements (i.e., date, orientation, grid, scale, title, author, index, legend, situation).
PO 2.  Interpret maps and images (e.g., political, physical, relief, thematic, Geographic Information Systems [GIS], Landsat).
PO 3.  Use appropriate maps and other graphic representations to analyze geographic problems and changes over time.

Concept 2:   Places and Regions

PO 1.  Identify the characteristics that define a region:

a.  physical processes such as climate, terrain, and resources

b.  human processes such as religion, political  organization, economy, and demographics

PO 2.  Describe the factors (e.g., demographics, political systems, economic systems, resources, culture) that contribute to the variations between developing and developed regions.

PO 3.  Examine geographic issues (e.g., drought in Sahel, migration patterns, desertification of Aral Sea, spread of religions such as Islam, conflicts in Northern Ireland/Ireland, Jerusalem, Tibet) in places and world regions.

PO 4.  Analyze the differing political, religious, economic, demographic, and historical ways of viewing places and regions.

PO 5.  Examine how the geographic characteristics of a place affect the economics and culture (e.g., changing regional economy of the sunbelt, location with respect of natural hazards, location of Panama Canal, Air Force Bases in Arizona).

PO 6.  Analyze how a region changes over time (e.g., U.S./Mexico border, Europe from World War I to the development of European Union, change from pre- to post-colonialism in Africa, Hong Kong).

Concept 6:  Geographic Applications

PO 1.  Analyze how geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives (e.g., use of Geographic Information Systems in urban planning, reapportionment of political units, locating businesses) are used to solve contemporary problems.

PO 2.  Analyze how changing perceptions of places and environments (e.g., where individuals choose to live and work, Israeli settlements, role of military bases, Viking colonization and naming of Iceland) affect the choices of people and institutions.

Language Standards:

The student will:

•  Consistently determine the meaning of content area vocabulary using an expanded range of Greek and Latin roots and affixes. (10R 1-4: PO1; 12R 1-4: PO1)

•  Determine the meanings, pronunciation, syllabication, synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech, and correct spellings by using dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, CD-Rom, and the Internet when available. (10R 1-4: PO5)