All subjects

1. 1

   Topics commonly taught around grade 3 · Ages 8–9 · about 10.5 hours

   Maps, scale, direction and location

   Unit

   What a map is — a drawing made from straight above, with a key that says what each symbol stands for and an honest account of what has been left out; which way is which, from the four compass directions to reading a north arrow that does not point up the page, and following a route in order; how to say where something is, by grid square, by the place it sits inside, and by land or water on a globe; and how far that really is, from reading a scale bar to turning map centimeters into kilometers and back. It ends by asking the maps themselves when they were drawn and who drew them.

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2. 2

   Topics commonly taught around grade 5 · Ages 10–11 · about 12.5 hours

   Physical and human patterns

   Where things are in the world and why. Latitude and longitude to fix any place, and what every flat world map stretches; the water cycle, rivers and their basins, rock broken and carried away, the plates that shake and build the land, and the biomes that follow the climate; where people live, how settlements grow, what cities do and what moves between places; and how people turn nature into resources and change the places they live, for better and for worse. Every lesson uses real places and real, dated figures, and the course ends by asking what evidence an explanation of a pattern really needs.

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3. 3

   Topics commonly taught around grade 6 · Ages 11–12 · about 3 hours

   Earth systems

   Unit

   Rocks and the rock cycle, and the weathering, erosion and deposition that shape the land: how to read a specimen, a column of strata or a landscape as the record of a process nobody watched.

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4. 4

   Topics commonly taught around grade 7 · Ages 12–13 · about 9.5 hours

   Explaining distributions

   Population, development, hazards and climate systems as distributions explained with evidence and scale.

   Take first: Physical and human patterns

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5. 5

   Topics commonly taught around grade 8 · Ages 13–14 · about 10.5 hours

   Physical geography

   Map skills, rivers, coasts, tectonic hazards, weather and climate, and ecosystems, measured with the numbers a geographer uses.

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6. 6

   Advanced geography · Ages 14–18 · about 8 hours

   Advanced geography

   Spatial association, scale, models, political and economic geography, and critical map use.

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7. 7

   Regional geography · Ages 14–18 · about 7 hours

   Regional geography

   Comparative regional geography across physical settings, people, economies, environmental pressures, and change.

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8. 8

   Geographic information · Ages 14–18 · about 8 hours

   Geographic information

   Spatial data, thematic mapping, layers, remote sensing, sampling, and ethical map representation.

   Take first: Maps, scale, direction and location, Statistics and probability

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