myWorld Geography © 2011 : Program Components · ... including a one-page paper, ... The ProGuide...

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Program Components

Introduction

The myWorld Geography program is a blend of technology, hands-on activities, and student books that take students on a journey around the globe and through history. The program allows students to connect to the world, experience it, and then understand and transfer their learnings. Students develop a deeper understanding of the program content by making personal connections to the people and places they learn about from all over the world.

This guide provides a brief background on the program authors and describes the program components available in myWorld Geography.

Program Authors

The myWorld Geography program was created by the following authorship team:

Grant Wiggins serves as the president of Authentic Education in Hopewell, New Jersey. He is the coauthor, with Jay McTighe, of Understanding by Design and The Understanding by Design Handbook. Wiggins consults with schools, districts, and state education departments on a variety of reform matters; organizes conferences and workshops; and develops print materials and Web resources on curricular change.

Gregory H. Chu is professor and chair of geography at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is an award-winning cartographer. He is also the editor of FOCUS on Geography, a journal published by the American Geographical Society.


Susan Hardwick is a geography professor at the University of Oregon. She is an expert in the human geography of North America and is a past president of the National Council for Geographic Education. She also is the co-host of The Power of Place, an Annenberg geography series produced for public television.

Don Holtgrieve has been a professor of geography and environmental studies in the California State University system for thirty years and is an award-winning geographer. He is currently a professor of geography and environmental planning at the University of Oregon.

Master Teacher Authors

George F. Sabato is the past president of the California Council for the Social Studies. He teaches in Placerville Union School District in California.


Michael Yell is a past president of the National Council for the Social Studies and is an expert with activity-based learning.

Print Student Components

myWorld Geography engages twenty-first century learners with a student edition, the Student Journal, and myworldgeography.com. The goal is to help students connect, experience, and understand the world and its people.

Student Editions

The program provides a choice of three different curriculums to fit the academic needs of each classroom. These curriculums include Survey, Eastern Hemisphere, and Western Hemisphere and help students expand their understanding of the world and its people. The following is summary of the organization of the student edition.

Core Concepts Handbook

A Core Concepts Handbook is integrated at the beginning of each student edition and provides lessons that help students acquire critical foundations for learning geography and social studies. The lessons can be used as introductory units in the myWorld Geography course or as individual lessons throughout the year to support instruction.


Units of Study

Each of the student editions—Survey, Eastern Hemisphere, and Western Hemisphere—contains a specific number of units based on the content of the curriculum.

Survey Student Edition

The Survey Student Edition is a combination of both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. It includes the following nine units of study:

Unit 1: United States and CanadaUnit 2: Middle AmericaUnit 3: South AmericaUnit 4: Europe and RussiaUnit 5: AfricaUnit 6: Southwest AsiaUnit 7: South and Central AsiaUnit 8: East and Southeast AsiaUnit 9: Australia and the Pacific

Eastern Hemisphere Student Edition

The Eastern Hemisphere Student Edition includes the following six units of study:

Unit 1: Europe and RussiaUnit 2: AfricaUnit 3: Southwest AsiaUnit 4: South and Central AsiaUnit 5: East and Southeast AsiaUnit 6: Australia and the Pacific

Western Hemisphere Student Edition

The Western Hemisphere Student Edition includes the following four units of study:

Unit 1: United States and CanadaUnit 2: Middle AmericaUnit 3: South AmericaUnit 4: Europe and Russia


Chapter Organization

The chapters in the student editions are framed around an Essential Question. Students will also meet youth from around the world through the real-life myStories. These richly illustrated stories and videos provide students a way to make emotional connections to the content in the program.

The student edition is also organized into three sections: the Chapter Atlas, a history of the specific region being studied, and a look the region today.

Case studies and primary sources are also integrated in each chapter of the student edition. For the Survey Student Edition, they are only available online at myworldgeography.com.


Additional Teacher Resources

A number of resources support teachers in the back matter of the student edition. These resources include the following:

• Atlas• Country Databank• Landforms and Water Features• Glossary• Index

Student Journal

The myWorld Geography Student Journal is a tool to help students process and record what is learned from their student edition. Students complete activities and essays in the journal to create personal resources for reviewing concepts, key terms, and maps from myWorld Geography. The Student Journal worksheets and writing exercises focus on the Essential Question. These Essential Question activities, including a one-page paper, help students transfer the relevance of each chapter to their lives.

Print Teacher Components

myWorld Geography provides an array of resources to support teachers in successful implementation of the program.

ProGuide

The ProGuide provides instructional support on a unit-by-unit basis. It combines the teacher’s edition with built-in professional development, the Understanding by Design®

framework lesson plans, a How to Use This Program overview, teacher resource materials for every lesson, activity-based curriculum, standards correlations, differentiated instruction, and standard’s correlations. To learn more about the ProGuide, please watch the ProGuide tutorial on this Web site.

*UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN® and UbD™ are trademarks of ASCD, and are used under license.


Student Journal Answer Key

The Student Journal Answer Key provides the correct responses to activities, key terms, essays, and writing exercises found in the Student Journal.

Activity Kit

The program provides opportunities for activity-based learning in the Activity Kit. The kit includes all the materials teachers need to support activity-based learning, including the Activity Cards, the Essential Questions posters, and the Wall Maps.

Activity Cards

Six cards accompany the activity-based lesson plans found in the teacher’s ProGuide. The cards provide students with insight into the most influential factors on life in each country that they are studying. The cards feature such items as facts, graphs, trends on health care, education, communication, industry, poverty, deforestation, and other related topics.


Essential Questions Posters

The Essential Questions posters provide a visual for teachers to use and post in the classroom. These reinforce the Essential Questions that are addressed in each chapter of the student edition. An example of an Essential Question is How can you measure success?

Wall Maps

The Wall Maps are the same geographic maps used in the student editions and on myWorldGeography.com. They provide an enlarged physical representation of the geography of the studied regions.

Accelerating the Progress of English Language Learners

The ELL Handbook provides additional support to help accelerate the progress of English language learners (ELLs) in myWorld Geography. In this resource, ELL expert Jim Cummins provides guidelines for teaching ELL students in the geography classroom. This handbook also discusses the Five Principles for Building Lessons for English Language Learners and provides specific application of these principles in myWorld Geography. These five principles include the following:

• Identifyandcommunicatecontentandlanguageobjectives.• Frontloadthelesson.• Providecomprehensibleinput.• Enablelanguageproduction.• Assessforcontentandlanguageunderstanding.


Assessment Handbook

The Assessment Handbook contains two assessments for every chapter and each part of the Core Concepts section of the student edition. It provides rubrics to establish criteria for assessment, helps monitor adequate yearly progress through the administration of benchmark tests, and prepares students for end-of-course exams.

Digital Components

The digital components of the program are found online at myWorldGeography.com, on DVD, or CD-ROM.

myworldgeography.com

myworldgeography.com is the online component of the myWorld Geography program. Students will find digital activities, such as the Online Travel Assignment, that are offered for each part or chapter of the student edition. There are also resources available for teachers, such as the Teacher Center and Success Tracker. myworldgeography.com contains all of the content to be a complete stand-alone, standards-based course.

Online Travel Assignment

The Online Travel Assignment has students travel through regions or time periods and complete a game-like assignment based on an Essential Question. Students gather information to complete the assignments by watching video interviews and stories. They also work through simulations, view artifacts, and research primary sources. Their thoughts and observations are captured with an online tool, and their assignments are sent directly to their teachers.


Project Builder

Student use the Project Builder tool to develop their own online travel presentation or blog. The Online Travel Presentation uses assets that students have collected and organized on slide templates throughout their travel assignment. Students can share this personal memoir of travel experiences relating to another part of the world. This process helps students build 21st century skills by developing ideas, editing, and publishing those ideas as they transfer their knowledge to the world.

Itinerary

The Itinerary section of myWorldGeography.com allows students to view the myStory Videos; interact with the Active Atlas, Timeline, and Culture Close-up; gather information in the Data Discovery section; and assess knowledge in the Self-Test portion of the program.


Teacher Center

The Teacher Center on Pearson SuccessNet Plus provides access to a variety of resources that enable teachers to plan, preview, and assign student materials; enrich teaching; and track student progress.

Online Student Edition

Teachers and students can access their specific curriculum Survey, Eastern Hemisphere, or Western Hemisphere Student Editions online at myWorldGeography.com. These e-books provide audio and vocabulary support.

Success Tracker: Online Testing and Reporting

Success Tracker is an online, formative assessment and remediation tool. It helps teachers provide personalized remediation for each student and provides powerful, disaggregated analysis of student performance.

Students take online assessments and are provided instant feedback and remediation. Teachers receive reports of test results and are provided with information they need to evaluate students on state standard performance exams.

21st Century Skills Tutor

The 21st Century Skills Tutor is a thirty-six lesson course. Each lesson corresponds with thirty-six specific skills that students can connect with, experience, and understand. To connect with each skill, students are presented with a skill definition and the opportunity to try performing the skill on their own. Next, students watch a video of their peers demonstrating the skill. The students demonstrate understanding by finding their own example of the skill and submit a written assignment or project summarizing their experiences.

myStory DVD

This DVD provides all of the myStory videos that are also found on myworldgeography.com. Financial Times journalists and local film crews teamed together to provide high-interest stories with an on-location feel. These real-life stories are told by teens from around the world and begin each print chapter in the geography program.


ExamView Computer Test Bank

ExamView is a software CD-ROM that allows teachers to create customizable tests using question banks from the myWorld Geography program. It is a comprehensive tool for creating, administering, and scoring tests for myWorld Geography. The software includes features to save time and generate information to assess and improve student performance.

Review

This guide provided a brief background on the program authors and described the program components available in myWorld Geography. For more information on myWorld Geography, please look for the tutorials on this Web site.

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