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 will:

Elementary

Intermediate

Commencement
• 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

 • 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

 • 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