Middle School Contemporary Geography

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Welcome to Middle School Contemporary Geography

Welcome to Albert's Middle School Contemporary Geography course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Middle School Contemporary Geography course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Subject Organization

Middle School Contemporary Geography is organized first by hemisphere, then by content themes, which are further broken down into topics. After an introductory theme about geography's themes and tools, each theme looks at how a specific geographic content area applies to either the Western or Eastern hemisphere.

Themes

  • Thinking Like a Geographer
  • Western Hemisphere 1 | Demographics and Migration in the Western Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere 2 | Culture and Cultural Diffusion in the Western Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere 3 | Political Geography of the Western Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere 4 | Economics and Trade in Western Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere 5 | Physical Geography of the Western Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere 1 | Demographics and Migration in the Eastern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere 2 | Culture and Cultural Diffusion in the Eastern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere 3 | Political Geography of the Eastern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere 4 | Economics and Trade in Eastern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere 5 | Physical Geography of the Eastern Hemisphere

Topics

Each theme contains a range of specific topics. For example, here are some topics within Demographics and Migration in the Western Hemisphere.
  • WH 1.1 | Demographics of the Western Hemisphere
  • WH 1.2 | Settlement and Migration Patterns of the Western Hemisphere

Vocabulary Quizzes

The Assessments guide includes vocabulary quizzes for each theme, covering some of the important terms for the study of that element of geography.

Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions

Standards

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter.
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
This course also includes Albert’s own Social Studies Umbrella Standards, which can also be used to search for content. The standards follow the format Albert MS.CG.1.A.1 for the Introduction to Geography content standards. For the other themes, the standard will show the Hemisphere being covered in the format Albert MS.CG.WH.1.A.1 or Albert MS.CG.WH.1.A.1. Skills standards follow the format Albert MS.CG.Skill.1.A.1 with either an .e or .w at the end showing the Hemisphere being covered in questions including that skill standard.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Tags

Albert’s Middle School Contemporary Geography course includes three types of tags, content, skills, and regional. The content and skills tags are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as content tag cultural-diffusion or skills tag map-analysis. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level. Tags are all one to three words long, connected by a dash.
Regional tags provide information about where any real world examples used in the questions come from. Albert is committed to provided balanced coverage of different regions around the world in our geography course.

Question Types

Middle School Contemporary Geography uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.
  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Select
  • Two-Way Tables
  • Fill-in-the-blank

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