1. Russia

2. Table of Contents – Eurasia
Date
Title
Lesson #
11/12
Industrial Revolution/Colonization 23
11/18
Essay Help 24
11/19
Conflict 25
11/24
European Union 26
12/3
Europe Review 27
**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**
12/8
Cover Page and Map 28

3. Russia - Lessons Map – Continentality, Distance Decay
Human Environment Interaction – how humans have negatively impacted the environment
The Fall of Communism – causes
The New Russia – Russia after the shift to capitalism
Project - Comparison of life before and after the fall of communism

4. Russia Unit Essential Questions
1. How does Russia’s geography effect Russia economically and culturally?
2. How have the policies of the Soviet Union impacted the environment?
3. What are the effects of Russia’s shift to a market economy?

5. Russia Cover Page Directions Find the next fresh page in your notebook
Use it to create a cover page
Your cover page should include the following…
Title
Pictures
One picture of Human-Environment Interaction damaging the environment.
One picture of a person owning his/her own business.
Essential Questions Chart (on the next slide)

6. Essential Questions Chart
Prediction (12/8)
Answer (Russia Review Day)
Sketch (Russia Review Day)
1. How does Russia’s geography effect Russia economically and culturally?
<Write your prediction here>
2. How have the policies of the Soviet Union impacted the environment?
3. What are the effects of Russia’s shift to a market economy?
Pictures
One picture of Human-Environment Interaction damaging the environment.
2. One picture of a person owning his/her own business.

7. Bodies of water you need to label…
Arctic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Aral Sea
Baltic Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
Volga River
You can cross out Bering Strait, Bering Sea, Lake Baikal