Middle School Historical Geography

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Welcome to Middle School Historical Geography!

Welcome to Albert's Middle School Historical Geography course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Middle School Historical 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 Historical Geography is organized first by hemisphere, then by content themes, which are further broken down into topics. Each theme looks at how a specific geographic content area applies to either the Western or Eastern hemisphere.

Themes

  • Western Hemisphere 1 | Populations and Settlements of the Americas
  • Western Hemisphere 2 | Culture and Cultural Diffusion in the Americas
  • Western Hemisphere 3 | Political Geography of the Americas
  • Western Hemisphere 4 | Economic Systems of the Americas
  • Eastern Hemisphere 1 | Populations and Settlement of the Eastern Hemisphere (Coming Soon!)
  • Eastern Hemisphere 2 | Cultures and Cultural Diffusion of the Eastern Hemisphere (Coming Soon!)
  • Eastern Hemisphere 3 | Political Geography of the Eastern Hemisphere (Coming Soon!)
  • Eastern Hemisphere 4 | Economic Systems of the Eastern Hemisphere (Coming Soon!)

Topics

Each theme contains a range of specific topics that break the content down by topic and era. For example, here are some topics within Western Hemisphere 1 | Populations and Settlements of the Americas
  • WH 1.1 | Demographics of Indigenous Americans
  • WH 1.2 | Settlement and Migration Patterns of Indigenous Americans
  • WH 1.3 | Population Impacts of the Encounter

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 standard will show the Hemisphere being covered as well as the theme and topic in the format Albert MS.HG.WH.1.A.1 or Albert MS.HG.EH.1.A.1. Skills standards follow the format Albert MS.HG.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 historical 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 Historical 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

Related Content

There is even more helpful content related to this course in Middle School Global History. The two courses cover the same cultures, locations, and eras, but Historical Geography studies them through the themes of geography, rather than history.

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