World Geography & Culture B Credit Recovery

This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.

Students will continue to learn basic skills of map reading and development, the use of geographic technology, and the recognition of geographic themes. The focus of this semester are the people, nations, and cultures of Central Europe and Northern Eurasia, Central and Southwest Asia, South Asia, Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific.

Major topics include:

Central and Eastern Europe
Russia
The Caucasus
Asia
Africa
The Pacific and Antarctica

Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.

This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.

Acknowledgements

Students should confirm that their high school will accept this course for credit recovery before registering for this course.
This course contains an end-of-course proctored exam. Instructions for students to identify an appropriate adult proctor are included in the course lessons.

Course Objectives

Course Learning Objectives:

Identify and use the tools of a geographer to understand the world.
Interpret information from charts, graphs, and maps to draw conclusions.
Describe the major landforms and climates of various geographical regions.
Explain how the geography of various regions affects the economy and development of different countries.
Analyze the impact of urbanization on different geographic regions.