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Geography · Grade 7

Scale, Projections and Spatial Reasoning

Learners reason like spatial thinkers: describing places by absolute and relative location, spotting clustered, dispersed and linear patterns, and seeing how a pattern can appear or vanish when the scale of analysis changes. They discover why the shortest flight between two cities looks curved on a flat map, estimate great-circle distances, and use longitude to work out time differences and explain time zones.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 7

Population, Migration and Urbanization

Why do people move, and why are cities growing so fast? Learners use push and pull factors, obstacles and opportunities to explain migration, classify different kinds of moves, and read UN data showing the world becoming mostly urban. They investigate megacities such as Lagos and Dhaka — their opportunities as well as their challenges — and practise describing migration with accurate data and balanced language.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 7

Culture, Language and Regional Identity

Learners read culture in the landscape — signs, buildings, fields and food — then map how the world's roughly 7,000 languages and its major belief systems are distributed and how they spread through migration, trade, empire and technology. They finish by exploring regional identity: how mountains, oceans, history and language combine to give places such as Switzerland, Papua New Guinea and Polynesia their character.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 7

Food, Water and Economic Geography

Learners follow food from farm to plate to see how economies work: the four economic sectors and how jobs shift between them, the supply chain that turns cocoa beans in West Africa into chocolate bars elsewhere, and where the value is added along the way. They measure the hidden 'virtual water' in foods, then explain why countries trade and how a dry country can save water by importing food.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 7

World Regions and Their Connections

Learners tour the regions of the Western Hemisphere — Canada and the United States, Middle America and the Caribbean, and South America's Andes, Amazon and Southern Cone — and compare them with data. They then study the connections that tie regions together, from the Panama Canal and trade agreements to migration corridors, and analyse how a disruption in one place, such as a drought at the canal, ripples out to others.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 7

Hazards, Resilience and Environmental Change

Why do some earthquakes, cyclones and droughts become disasters while others do not? Learners explain where geophysical and weather hazards occur and why, examine how a warming climate is changing some of them, and use the idea that risk depends on the hazard, exposure and vulnerability. Comparing the Indian state of Odisha's cyclones of 1999 and 2013 shows how warnings and preparation save lives, and learners finish by designing a resilience plan for a coastal town.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 7

Compare Geographic Claims with Data

'The biggest polluter', 'the most dangerous region', 'crime up 50%' — geographic claims are everywhere. Learners discover how the same data can tell different stories depending on whether we use totals or rates, how map design and class breaks change a map's message, and how graphs and maps can mislead. They finish by testing claims against data and writing a supported verdict.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 7

Investigate a Global Place-Based Question

In this inquiry capstone, learners investigate one big question about a real place: how and why is Vietnam's Mekong Delta — home to about 17 million people and much of the country's rice — changing? They frame sub-questions at several scales, judge the reliability of sources, trace causes from local wells to dams in other countries and global sea-level rise, and communicate a conclusion with limitations. They then plan an inquiry of their own about a new place.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 8

Geospatial Tools and Projection Critique

How does a phone know where it is? How can satellites spot a forest being cleared? Learners investigate the three great geospatial tools — satellite positioning (GNSS), remote sensing and GIS layers — and then turn a critical eye on the maps those tools produce: the Mercator–Peters debate, the Web Mercator maps on our screens, and how centring and orientation shape the way we see the world.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 8

Population Patterns and Demographic Evidence

Why is Niger's population among the youngest in the world while Japan's is among the oldest? Learners calculate birth, death and natural increase rates and doubling times, read population pyramids and dependency ratios, and use the demographic transition model — with its limits — to explain differences between countries. They finish by using demographic evidence to advise a government on schools, jobs and care for older people.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 8

Migration, Culture and Place

Learners use accurate terms — refugee, asylum seeker, internally displaced person, migrant — to describe who moves and why, and examine where displaced people actually live. They trace the money and networks migration creates, such as remittances and diasporas, and read how migrant communities reshape places, from London's Brick Lane to Chinatowns. They finish by comparing how different people experience and represent the same place.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 8

Political Geography and Boundaries

Who decides where one country ends and another begins? Learners distinguish states from nations, explore how boundaries follow mountains, rivers, straight survey lines and cultural divides, and calculate the zones countries control at sea under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. They then examine how disputes are described, mapped and managed — from the treaty that sets aside claims to Antarctica to the different maps sold in different countries.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 8

Agriculture, Industry and Economic Networks

Learners compare farming systems from Dutch greenhouses to Australian cattle stations, explain why industries locate where they do and why old industrial regions such as Germany's Ruhr changed, and follow the container ships, ports and just-in-time supply chains that link factories across continents. Case studies such as the 2011 floods in Thailand show how a disruption in one place can ripple through global networks.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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Geography · Grade 8

Urban Systems and Resource Decisions

Cities are systems that take in water, food and energy and send out goods, waste and emissions. Learners map the zones and functions of cities, measure a city's resource flows, and examine how real cities made hard choices — Cape Town's response to its 2018 water crisis, Curitiba's bus system and Copenhagen's cycling network. They finish by using a weighted decision matrix to recommend a resource decision for a growing city.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 8

Climate Risk, Sustainability and Resilience

Learners examine the evidence that Earth's climate is changing — rising carbon dioxide, temperatures and seas and shrinking ice — and how the impacts differ from Arctic coasts to low-lying Pacific islands and great river deltas. They distinguish mitigation from adaptation, evaluate strategies such as the Netherlands' 'Room for the River', and use the three dimensions of sustainability to judge a city's climate plan.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

Geography · Grade 8

Human Geography Research and Map Argument

In this capstone, learners act as human geography researchers. They frame a research question and hypothesis, plan ethical data collection, turn raw counts into fair rates and choose how to map them, then build a map-based argument with a claim, evidence, reasoning, a counterclaim and a rebuttal. Using a fictional city's park-access data and real global internet-use data, they critique and improve map arguments before writing one of their own.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 115 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions