This content guide is designed for a seventh-grade geography course and an eighth-grade United States History course. Each course section is divided by the three levels of skills to be developed: basic skills, developmental skills, and extensions. The geography course features economic geography, cultural-regional geography, map skills, and study skills. The U.S. history course focuses on exploration of the new world, settlement, forming the new nation, the Constitution, post-Revolutionary expansion, and the Civil War. (DB)