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Standard 3
Social Studies
Students will:
use a variety of intellectual
skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography
of the interdependent world in which we live—local,
national, and global—including the distribution of people,
places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. |
Geography
Key Idea 1:
Geography can be divided into six essential elements which
can be used to analyze important historic, geographic,
economic, and environmental questions and issues. These six
elements include: the world in spatial terms, places and
regions, physical settings (including natural resources),
human systems, environment and society, and the use of
geography. (Adapted from The National Geography Standards,
1994: Geography for Life)
Performance Indicators--Students
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Elementary |
Intermediate |
Commencement |
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• study about how people
live, work, and utilize natural resources
• draw maps and diagrams that serve
as representations of places, physical features, and objects
• locate places within the local
community, State, and nation; locate the Earth’s continents
in relation to each other and to principal parallels and
meridians (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994)
• identify and compare the physical,
human, and cultural characteristics of different regions and
people (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994)
• investigate how people depend on
and modify the physical environment |
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map information about people, places,
and environments
• understand the characteristics,
functions, and applications of maps, globes, aerial and
other photographs, satellite-produced images, and models
(Taken from National Geography Standards, 1994)
• investigate why people and places
are located where they are located and what patterns can be
perceived in these locations
• describe the relationships between
people and environments and the connections between people
and places |
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understand how to develop and use maps
and other graphic representations to display geographic
issues, problems, and questions
• describe the physical
characteristics of the Earth’s surface and investigate the
continual reshaping of the surface by physical processes and
human activities
• investigate the characteristics,
distribution, and migration of human populations on the
Earth’s surface (Taken from National Geography Standards,
1994)
• understand the development and
interactions of social/cultural, political, economic, and
religious systems in different regions of the world
• analyze how the forces of
cooperation and conflict among people influence the division
and control of the Earth’s surface (Taken from National
Geography Standards, 1994)
• explain how technological change
affects people, places, and regions |
Key Idea 2
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