Social Studies Curriculum: 7th Grade

Georgia Performance Standards: Year Curriculum Map

This document is part of a framework that is designed to support the major concepts addressed in the 7th Grade Curriculum of the GPS. Lowndes County Schools will follow
the units in the sequence below. The length of each unit is a guideline. Unit length will be based on student performance.

1st 9 weeks

2nd 9 weeks

3rd 9 weeks

Unit:1
Middle East
Weeks-9

Unit:2
Southeast Asia
Weeks-9

Unit:3
Africa
Weeks-9

Week 1
Rules/ procedures
Maps/ legends/keys
5 themes of geography

Weeks 1-3 - Geographic

Understandings
Key Terms:
Maps Ganges River, Huang He (Yellow
) River, Indus River, Mekong River,
Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River, Bay of
Bengal, Indian Ocean, Sea of Japan,
South China Sea, Yellow Sea, Gobi
Desert, Taklimakan Desert, Himalayan
Mountains, Korean Peninsula, China,
India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea,
South Korea, Vietnam, Cultural Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism,
Confucianism, Literacy Rate and
Standard of Living

Weeks 1-3- Geographic Understandings

Key Terms:
Maps - Sahara, Sahel, savanna, tropical rain
forest, Congo River, Niger River, Nile River, Lake
Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Atlas Mountains,
Kalahari Desert, DRC (Zaire), Egypt, Kenya,
Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan
Cultural Arab, Ashanti, Bantu, Swahili, Literacy
Rate and Standard of Living

Weeks 4-5- Government/ Civics

Key Terms:
Unitary, confederation, federal,
autocratic, oligarchic, democratic,
parliamentary democracy, presidential
democracy

Weeks 6-7- Economic Understandings

Key Terms:
Traditional, command, market, economic
system, tariff, quota, embargo, OPEC, currency
exchange, human capital, GDP, capital,
entrepreneurship

Weeks 6-7- Economic

Understandings
Key Terms:
Traditional, command, market,
economic system, tariff, quota,
embargo, OPEC, currency exchange,
human capital, GDP, capital,
entrepreneurship

Weeks 8-9- Historical Understandings

Key Terms:
Partitioning, Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk,
Apartheid, Pan-African Movement, Conflict and
Civil Wars in Africa

Weeks 2- 3- Geographic
Understandings
Key Terms:
Maps - Euphrates River, Jordan
River, Tigris River, Suez Canal,
Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz,
Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Gaza Strip,
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi
Arabia, Turkey
Environment and CultureEthnic Group, Religious Group,
Arabs, Persians, Kurds, Judaism,
Islam, Sunni, Shia, Christianity
Weeks 4- 5-Government/ Civics
Key Terms:
Unitary, confederation, federal,
autocratic, oligarchic, democratic,
parliamentary democracy,
presidential democracy
Weeks 6-7-Economic
Understandings
Key Terms:
Traditional, command, market,
economic system, tariff, quota,
embargo, OPEC, currency
exchange, human capital, GDP,
capital, entrepreneurship
Weeks 8-9-Historical
Understandings
Key Terms:
Ottoman Empire, 1948, Holocaust,
anti-Semitism, Zionism, Persian
Gulf conflict, Afghan War, Iraqi War

1st 9 Weeks

4th 9
weeks
Unit:4
Gifted Enrichment
Weeks-9

Create-A-Country
Project
Research Projects
Enrichment Projects

Weeks 4-5- Government/ Civics

Key Terms:
Unitary, confederation, federal, autocratic,
oligarchic, democratic, parliamentary
democracy, presidential democracy

Weeks 8-9- Historical

Understandings
Key Terms:
Independence in India and Vietnam,
Mohandas Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Great
Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution,
Tiananmen Square, Containment of
Communism

2nd 9 Weeks

3rd 9 Weeks

4th 9 Weeks

Resources
www.todayingeorgia.org

Sheppards Software
ABC book (on all units)
www.gcee.org (economics)
Create your own country project
United Streaming
http://continents.pppst.com
mrdowling.com
CNN news
mrdonn.org