ERIC ED463609: World Geography: Skills and Regions. Teacher's Guide [and Student Guides]. Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students (PASS).

781 Pages·2001·19.3 MB·English

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AUTHOR
Calhoun, Mary C.; Goldstein, Jeren; Walford, Sylvia B.;
Purdum, Betsy
TITLE
World Geography: Skills and Regions. Teacher's Guide (and
Student Guides]. Parallel Alternative Strategies for
Students (PASS).
INSTITUTION
Leon County Schools, Tallahassee, FL. Exceptional Student
Education.; Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee.
Bureau of Instructional Support and Community Services.
REPORT NO
ESE-9362.A; ESE-9362.B; ESE-9362.0
PUB DATE
2001-00-00
NOTE
788p.; Course no. 2103300. Teacher's Guide reprinted 2001;
Student Guide--Skills reprinted 1998; Student Guide--Regions
reprinted 1999. Part of the Curriculum Improvement Project
funded under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA), Part B.
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Community Services, Turlington Bldg., Room 628, 325 West
Gaines St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400 (Teacher's guide, $5;
Student guide--Skills, $4.30; Student guide--Regions,
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Guides
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Guides
Classroom
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DESCRIPTORS
*Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); Academic Standards;
*Mild Disabilities; Secondary Education; Special Needs
Students; State Standards; Student Educational Objectives;
*Units of Study; *World Geography
IDENTIFIERS
*Florida
ABSTRACT
This teacher's guide and student guides on world geography
skills and regions are part of a series of supplementary curriculum packages
of alternative methods and activities designed to meet the needs of Florida
secondary students with mild disabilities or other special learning needs.
Content is based on the Florida Curriculum Frameworks and correlates to the
Sunshine State Standards. These PASS (Parallel Alternative Strategies for
Students) guides in world geography skills present 10 units. The teacher's
guide usually provides an overview, some suggested activities, a unit quiz,
and answer keys for all written activities for each unit in the student
guides. A suggested scope and sequence chart is also provided. The following
10 units are included in-the teacher's guide and 2 student guides, "World
Geography: Skills," covering units 1-3, and "World Geography Regions,"
covering units 4-10:
"Introduction to World Geography";
"Locating
(1)
(2)
Places";
"Living on Earth";
"Latin America";
"North Africa and
(3)
(4) (5)
Southwest Asia";
"Africa South of the Sahara";
"Asia and Australia";
(6)
(7)
"The Former Soviet Union";
"The United States and
"Europe"; and (10)
(8)
(9)
Canada." Appended in the teacher's guide are the Sunshine State Standards for
geography, unit generalizations, and a multimedia bibliography. The student
guides/workbooks each contain vocabulary lists, explanations of content, and
Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made
from the ori inal document.
practice exercises designed to evaluation comprehension. (Contains 30
references.)
Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made
from the original document.
World Geography: Skills and Regions.
Teacher's Guide [and Student Guides].
Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students (PASS).
Mary C. Calhoun, Jeren Goldstein, Sylvia B. Walford, and Betsy Purdum
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Worii Geogr
hy:
Skills n d Re ions
Teach r s Gui
written by
Mary C Caldhoura
Inert Goildstehl
Walliford
graphics by
Portia R. Thomas
Curriculum Improvement Project
IDEA, Part f, Special Project
mon MEM EMS
E:iceptional Student Education
Currkullum Emprovement IProjed
Sylvia Walford, Project Manager
Exceptionall Student Educati©n (ESIE)
Beverley Blanton, Area Leader, State and Federal Programs
Beverly Simpkins, Director, ESE Programs and Curriculum
Schooll Ir oard of Leon County
Scott Dailey
Donna Harper, Chair
Emily Millett
Curtis Richardson
Donna Uzzell
Superintendent of Leon County Schools.
Richard L. Merrick
Tab`e of Contents
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Foreword
xi
User's Guide
Introducing World Geography: Skills and
1
World Geography: Regions
Unit 1: Introduction to Workl Geography
5
Guide
13
Quiz
19
Keys
Unit 2: Locating laces
21
Guide
25
Quiz
35
Keys
Unit 3: Living sn Earth
39
Guide
43
Quiz
49
Keys
Unit 4: Latin America
53
Guide
57
Quiz
67
Keys
Asia
Unit 5: North Africa and Southwest
71
Guide
75
Quiz
83
Keys
,