Mapping Europe

Comprehensive Unit88 pagesGrade Level: Middle School – High School Mapping Europe has been designed to serve two major purposes. First, the unit teaches students about the basic physical and political geography of Europe. Second, it introduces, or reviews, fundamental geographical concepts and vocabulary in a European context. In a world so shrunken in time and distance that we can communicate almost instantly with any other city on any other continent and fly to even more corners of the world in a matter of hours, a knowledge of different places can no longer be considered a luxury. Instead, it has become a necessity. Our interdependence is now so complete that actions—be they economic, political, social, or environmental—in one world region can have immediate repercussions in another world region. Over the past 15 years, revolutionary and evolutionary processes have profoundly altered the shape of both Eastern and Western Europe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the coll