7th Grade Jump Start - Social Studies: Week 1

Social Studies

Week 1 - Day 1

(Geography) Essential Question: 

How is our world organized?

• Take a look at this World Map- Continents with Oceans to refresh your memory of the location of the continents and oceans. See if you can name all seven continents and five oceans without looking. 

• Play World Geography Games- Continents to see if you can correctly identify all of the continents. 
• Play World Geography Games- Oceans to see if you can correctly identify all of the oceans. 

• IXL- Oceans and Continents

Social Studies

Week 1 - Day 2

(Geography) Essential Question: 

How is our world organized?

• Learn about 8 different types of maps that we will use to study the world by exploring this Interactive Map Activity.
• Watch the National Geographic video called Mapping the Stories of Our Planet to hear about the job of a cartographer. How has that field changed over time?

Social Studies

Week 1 - Day 3

(Geography) Essential Question: 

How is our world organized?

• Learn about Map Skills / Latitude and Longitude by watching this video. Think about how latitude and longitude give us absolute location, which helps us find our way around. 

• Review what you learned by listening to the Latitude & Longitude Song.

• Practice finding absolute location by playing the Coordinates Online Game.

Social Studies

Week 1 - Day 4

(Geography) Essential Question: 

How is our world connected?

• Read about how geographers have organized the study of geography into the Five Themes of Geography (Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region).
• Watch the Five Themes of Geography video for specific examples about each of the five themes. 
• How would you describe your favorite place using the Five Themes of Geography?

Social Studies

Week 1 - Day 5

(Primary & Secondary Sources) Essential Question:

 How do we learn about the past?

• Watch this Primary and Secondary Sources Video to learn about the differences between primary and secondary sources.

• Practice what you learned by completing the Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources Worksheet. Check your work by scrolling to the second page for the answer key.
• IXL- Identify Primary and Secondary Sources