More Than a Map - World Geography for the 21st Century ( Live/Flex Hybrid)
In this 27-week, 52-lesson, LIVE and FLEX HYBRID class learners will gain an understanding of the physical and human geography of the world including historical applications to today's current events.
Shae Pepper
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What's included
27 live meetings
24 hrs 45 mins in-class hoursHomework
1-2 hours per week. During our practical application Live classes learners will work together in pairs or groups to ask and answer questions and explore current events as they relate to the geography and history presented in class. Learners are expected to watch the Flex video lectures and activities provided on Thursdays before the following Tuesday's class as they will be referenced and will often provide the theoretical underpinning needed for the practical application classes. There will be 3 questions or a short activity provided for each Flex video that students will be expected to complete and submit by the following Monday at 8pm Eastern to show they have completed the Flex video lecture or activity. They will have a final geography and travel-related project to complete outside of class time and submit by the last class of the course.Assessment
Learner progress will be evaluated according to the US Common Core Standards and National Standards of Social Studies for Geography adopted by most states. Feedback will be provided in an ungraded learner report or graded report card within 1-2 weeks after class ends. All learners will be provided with a non-graded learner report showing participation and completion of lessons and assignments - graded report cards available upon request.Grading
includedClass Experience
This is a revision to my previous and multiple geography classes offered on Outschool - World Geography and Cultures (Parts 1-5) which ran from 2019-2022. Even if your learner took this previously from ages 11-14 they will find a lot of new material and methods included since it is designed for older learners and more comprehensive standards.
This is a 27 week class - that provides 52 lessons - to maximize the amount of learning available to students during the traditional school year. It will provide time for individual work as well as group activities, lectures and student discussions and debate. The price is for the entire course of 52 lessons over the 27 week period of the course (about $9 per lesson.) There are breaks for holidays built into the schedule and it will run from September - Early May. You can see the full schedule below.
This LIVE and FLEX HYBRID class will be utilizing the C3 Framework (College, Career and Civil Life) from the National Council for the Social Studies in the United States. It will cover three of the four core disciplines of geography, history, civics and a brief introduction to global economics. Through live lectures (Tuesday) and pre-recorded lectures (Thursday), class discussions, group games and activities and "beyond the classroom" projects, learners will have the opportunity to achieve all the standards outlined in the C3 Framework for grades 9-12 learners in social studies.
Here is what learners can expect from this class:
9/5/23 Live Tuesday Geography Intro to class/geographic thinking
9/7/23 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Intro to maps
9/12/23 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - maps
9/14/23 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Intro to Earth and physical geography
9/19/23 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - physical geography
9/21/23 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Intro to human geography
9/26/23 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - human geography
9/28/23 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Overview of the physical geography of Africa and Southwest Asia (Middle
East)
10/3/23 Live Tuesday World History History of Mesopotamia, Egypt and African Empires
10/5/23 Flex Thursday World History Recording - History of the Abrahamic religions
10/10/23 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - geopolitics of the Abrahamic religions
10/12/23 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Overview of the physical geography of Asia
10/17/23 Live Tuesday World History History of India, Southern and Southeast Asia
10/19/23 Flex Thursday World History Recording - History of China, Japan, The People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of
Korea
10/24/23 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - geopolitics of the region
10/26/23 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Overview of the physical geography of Europe, Russia and the Central Asian
Republics
10/31/23 Live Tuesday World History History of Europe Part 1 - Ancient Greece and Rome
11/2/23 Flex Thursday World History Recording - History of Europe Part 2 - Ancient Greece and Rome
11/7/23 Live Tuesday World History History of Russia/Central Asia Republics
11/9/23 Flex Thursday World History Recording - Intro to Colonization
11/14/23 Live Tuesday World History Overview of Colonization into Africa, Australia and the Americas
Holiday Break 11/15/23 - 1/8/24 - No work expected
1/9/24 Live Tuesday Review Welcome back - Class review
1/11/24 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Overview of the physical geography of Oceana/Pacific Islands
1/16/24 Live Tuesday Geography History of Australia/NZ & Practical application - geopolitics of colonization on Australia/NZ
1/18/24 Flex Thursday World History Recording - History of colonization in Africa
1/23/24 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - geopolitics of colonization on Africa today
1/25/24 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Overview of the physical geography of South America, Central America and
the Caribbean
1/30/24 Live Tuesday World History History of colonization in the Americas
2/1/24 Flex Thursday World History Recording - History of South America
2/6/24 Live Tuesday World History History of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
2/8/24 Flex Thursday World History Recording - History of North America - Indigenous Americans (virtual field trips to
indigenous sites)
2/13/24 Live Tuesday World History History of North America - Canada (virtual field trips to Acadian Cultural Site)
2/15/24 Flex Thursday US History Recording - Colonial America (virtual field trip to Jamestown)
2/20/24 Live Tuesday US History Enslavement in the USA - compare and contrast enslavement and legacy at US Plantations
(virtual field trip to Evergreen Plantation, Monticello and Mount Vernon)
2/22/24 Flex Thursday US History Recording - The Civil War
2/27/24 Live Tuesday Geography Reconstruction and today
2/29/24 Flex Thursday US History Recording - History of the 1900s - WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Korea and Afghanistan
3/5/24 Live Tuesday US History Civil Rights (virtual field trips to civil rights sites)
3/7/24 Flex Thursday US History Recording - Civil Rights (virtual field trips to civil rights sites)
3/12/24 Live Tuesday Geography Practical application - Civil Rights then and now
3/14/24 Flex Thursday Review Recording - Review Activity
3/15- 4/1/24 Spring Break - No work expected
4/2/24 Live Tuesday Economics Intro to Economics - Practical application of economics
4/4/24 Flex Thursday Civics Recording - Intro to world governments
4/9/24 Live Tuesday Civics Intro to the US Government
4/11/24 Flex Thursday Civics Recording - The Executive Branch
4/16/24 Live Tuesday Civics Intro to and practical application - The Legislative Branch
4/18/24 Flex Thursday Civics Recording - The Judicial Branch
4/23/24 Live Tuesday Civics Checks and balances and democracy in the world today
4/25/24 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Intro to History of Antarctica and Climate Change
4/30/24 Live Tuesday Geography World culture and the importance of travel
5/2/24 Flex Thursday Geography Recording - Travel project
5/7/24 Live Tuesday Final Class Review and close classLearning Goals
By completing all LIVE and FLEX HYBRID classes, assignments, discussions and group activities learners will be able to:
Civics
D2.Civ.1.9-12. Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal, national, and international civic and political institutions.
D2.Civ.2.9-12. Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to various theories of democracy, changes in Americans’ participation over time, and alternative models from other countries, past and present.
D2.Civ.3.9-12. Analyze the impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements on the maintenance of national and international order.
D2.Civ.4.9-12. Explain how the U.S. Constitution establishes a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed over time and that are still contested.
D2.Civ.5.9-12. Evaluate citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.
D2.Civ.6.9-12. Critique relationships among governments, civil societies, and economic markets.
D2.Civ.7.9-12. Apply civic virtues and democratic principles when working with others.
D2.Civ.8.9-12. Evaluate social and political systems in different contexts, times, and places, that promote civic virtues and enact democratic principles.
D2.Civ.9.9-12. Use appropriate deliberative processes in multiple settings.
D2.Civ.10.9-12. Analyze the impact and the appropriate roles of personal interests and perspectives on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights.
D2.Civ.11.9-12. Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.
D2.Civ.12.9-12. Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Civ.13.9-12. Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes, and related consequences
D2.Civ.14.9-12. Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.
Geography
D2.Geo.1.9-12. Use geospatial and related technologies to create maps to display and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
D2.Geo.2.9-12. Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their political, cultural, and economic dynamics.
D2.Geo.3.9-12. Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.
D2.Geo.4.9-12. Analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them.
D2.Geo.5.9-12. Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.Geo.6.9-12. Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and cultural characteristics of specific places and regions.
D2.Geo.7.9-12. Analyze the reciprocal nature of how historical events and the spatial diffusion of ideas, technologies, and cultural practices have influenced migration patterns and the distribution of human population.
D2.Geo.8.9-12. Evaluate the impact of economic activities and political decisions on spatial patterns within and among urban, suburban, and rural regions.
D2.Geo.9.9-12. Evaluate the influence of long-term climate variability on human migration and settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scales.
D2.Geo.10.9-12. Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.
D2.Geo.11.9-12. Evaluate how economic globalization and the expanding use of scarce resources contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among countries
D2.Geo.12.9-12. Evaluate the consequences of human-made and natural catastrophes on global trade, politics, and human migration.
History
D2.His.1.9-12. Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.
D2.His.2.9-12. Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
D2.His.3.9-12. Use questions generated about individuals and groups to assess how the significance of their actions changes over time and is shaped by the historical context.
D2.His.4.9-12. Analyze complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.
D2.His.5.9-12. Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people’s perspectives.
D2.His.6.9-12. Analyze the ways in which the perspectives of those writing history shaped the history that they produced.
D2.His.7.9-12. Explain how the perspectives of people in the present shape interpretations of the past.
D2.His.8.9-12. Analyze how current interpretations of the past are limited by the extent to which available historical sources represent perspectives of people at the time.
D2.His.9.9-12. Analyze the relationship between historical sources and the secondary interpretations made from them.
D2.His.10.9-12. Detect possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary interpretations.
D2.His.11.9-12. Critique the usefulness of historical sources for a specific historical inquiry based on their maker, date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose.
D2.His.12.9-12. Use questions generated about multiple historical sources to pursue further inquiry and investigate additional sources.
D2.His.13.9-12. Critique the appropriateness of the historical sources used in a secondary interpretation.
D2.His.14.9-12. Analyze multiple and complex causes and effects of events in the past.
D2.His.15.9-12. Distinguish between long-term causes and triggering events in developing a historical argument.
D2.His.16.9-12. Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past.
D2.His.17.9-12. Critique the central arguments in secondary works of history on related topics in multiple media in terms of their historical accuracy
Other Details
Parental Guidance
This class will cover the physical and human geography and history of the world. This will include discussions, photos, videos and content about natural disasters (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and blizzards), transatlantic enslavement (including the horrors therein - sexual assault, physical beating, etc.), indigenous population's treatment and systematic genocide, battles, starvation/death through siege and concentration camps, religious wars, racism (images and language in a historic context) against BIPOC and AAPI communities and death.
Supply List
This course is being drawn from facts from a World Cultures and Geography curriculum, my own Virtual Field Trips from my travels and the C3 Framework Standards. Any informational materials needed by students will be provided by the teacher. A student may need to do research on their own to complete an assignment but information will be freely available on safe websites such as YouTube, Google Earth and National Geographic. Students may need to access items for practical projects such as poster board, computer paper, writing and drawing utensils, glue, etc.
1 file available upon enrollment
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Joined January, 2019
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Teacher expertise and credentials
As a National Geographic Certified Educator, Professional Youth Worker and project-based educator by training and experience, as well as an experienced Outschool Educator since 2019 this class is perfect for my skills and interests in bringing these topics alive for your learner. I have over 15 years experience bringing complex (and frankly sometimes boring) topics to life for learners ages 11-18.
I have a Master’s of Arts in Youth Work and Community Development from DeMontfort University in Leicester, England. Courses covered included Theory and Practice of Youth Work (how to work effectively with teens and tweens), Theory and Practice of Community Development (how to empower community members to achieve their goals), Social Disaffection and Exclusion in Youth Work (how young people, and other marginalized groups, are excluded in society), Research Methods (ethical research standards) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (understanding the internalization of oppression at the personal, cultural and social levels in society). My degree also included practical field work in youth work and community development and a dissertation.
In addition to having my Master’s degree I have a personal interest in Geography and History and working with marginalized groups, including underserved youth in the UK, Rwandan refugees and the youth in public housing communities in the US. I have travelled extensively worldwide and lived in different cultures taking my Geographical understanding beyond the textbook. I have the research skills from my Master’s to do ethical and complete research to go beyond the “classic history” to find out the real story by using texts that include BIPOC authors. I have the experience and knowledge to handle questions and these subjects in an age appropriate, historically accurate and sensitive way.
I'm excited about the opportunity to share my love of cultures and geography with learners. I'm an enthusiastic teacher and plan my classes to include practical educational experiences.
For one time and multi-week classes I provide a 10% discount (please contact me for discount) for:
Returning students from my previous classes
Outschool teacher's children
Siblings who both register for the same classReviews
Live Group Class
$19
weekly or $499 for 27 classes1x per week, 27 weeks
55 min
Completed by 4 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 14-17
3-12 learners per class
