IES Gregorio Peces Barba (Colmenarejo). Geography and History Department.

Subject: Geography and History, 1st

ESO. General information.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. 1st CSE

I. JUSTIFICATION OF THE SUBJECT.

According to LOMCE (art. 25), Real Decreto 1105/2014 (art. 14), and Decreto
48/2015 (art. 7), Geography and History is considered as a core subject (material
troncal).
The subject of Geography and History is highly important for the students of 1st
CSE. During this school year, this subject will be presented as a general approach to
Social Sciences and will entail a strong pillar for the next courses. Apart from study
techniques, students will be familiarized with methods related to Geography and
History, especially with the use of maps. Speaking of contents, the History of 1st of ESO
covers from Prehistory (beginning with the first human remains) to the end of Ancient
Age (closing with the fall of the Western Roman Empire). Geography, for its part, is
focused on Earth’s main features as a planet: movements, measurements, the
geographical coordinate system, types of terrain, the birth and evolution of the different
kinds of relief, the climate and bioclimatic zones. In other words, students will study the
physical part of the Geography.

II. ANNUAL PLANNING OF THE UNITS.

1st Term 2nd Term 3rd Term
UNIT 0. Introduction. UNIT 4. The ancient UNIT 7. Earth’s physical
Rome. features.
UNIT 1. Prehistory.
Physical Map of Europe. Physical Map of Oceania.
Physical Map of Africa.
UNIT 5. The Iberian UNIT 8. The climate on
UNIT 2. Early civilisations peninsula during the Earth.
Ancient Age.
Physical Map of Asia UNIT 9. The Iberian
Physical Map of America. peninsula. Physical
UNIT 3. The ancient characteristics and
Greece. UNIT 6. The Earth and its bioclimatic zones.
representation.
Physical Map of Spain.

This annual planning could be modified according to the difficulties, interests and
working pace of the students.

III. ASSESSMENT.
1. Assessment instruments.

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IES Gregorio Peces Barba (Colmenarejo). Geography and History Department. Subject: Geography and History, 1st
ESO. General information.

The following assessment instruments will be kept in mind:

- Exams or written tests, including maps.
- Personal notebook: it consists of all the contents, schemes, notes and tasks of
each unit. Tasks are valued according to its difficulty level.
- Self-assessment tests. They refer to the questionnaires which will be available
on our Virtual Classroom.
- Student’s attitude and behaviour.

2. Assessment criteria.
Assessment criteria will be applied according to the following percentages:
Exams and Maps Notebook Virtual Attitude and
written tests exams Classroom behaviour

60% 10% 15% 5% 10%

3. Reading project.
During the school year, students will have to complete a reading project consisting
of reading a book related to our subject and doing some exercises about it. The reading
project entails 1 point (10%) of the final mark of the course.
4. Final mark. Ordinary assessment.
The final mark of each term results from the application of the previous percentages.
This application will be only possible when the arithmetic average of the exams is no
lower than 3. Students will pass the term when the application of the previous
percentages is equal or higher than 5. For those students who have not passed the term,
there will be a retaken exam which will take place at the end of the term or the
beginning of the next one.
The final mark of the course results from the arithmetic average of the marks
obtained in each term. This result, for its part, is supposed to be the 90% of the final
mark, whereas the remaining 10% is extracted from the reading project. If a student
does not pass the subject at the end of the school year, there will be a retaken global
exam that will take place in the end of May.
5. Extraordinary assessment.
For those who have not passed the subject during the ordinary assessment, they will
have another chance with the extraordinary assessment that will be dated on June.
IV. RESOURCES.
 Slides and presentations of the units. They will be available on Moodle.
 A section belonging to the subject inside a three-ring binder (archivador).
 Moodle course related to our subject.
 Student book is no need.