Learning Goals
Students will be able to identify the seven continents, major map parts, and the equator to accurately read and create basic world maps.
Students will be able to locate Europe, Asia, major waterways, and key travel routes on maps to show how physical geography affects movement and connection.
Students will be able to analyze medieval maps, voyage routes, and plague spread maps to explain how cartography shaped worldview and recorded change over time.
Students will be able to explain how geography, climate, waterways, and topography influenced life in Medieval Europe and the spread of the bubonic plague.
Students will be able to justify map-based claims about exploration, trade, and disease spread using evidence from maps, source images, and discussion notes.
Products
World Geography Investigation Notebook
Students compile a personal investigation record with map sketches, source notes, route tracing, plague-spread observations, and daily reflections. The notebook shows individual mastery of map skills, evidence collection, and clear explanations of how geography shaped historical events.
Geography Discovery Museum Exhibit and Presentation
Teams create a shared exhibit with a large labeled world map, voyage route map, and plague spread map, plus a short presentation explaining findings and limitations. The exhibit must synthesize each member’s evidence and show how geography influenced worldview, movement, and historical change.
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