Standards
Enduring Understandings -
important ideas that students should carry with
them years beyond the instruction received this year.
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Maps, charts, and graphs are used to acquire, process and report
information about people, places and environments.
- Human and physical characteristics define regions.
- Physical processes shape the earth's surface and have effects on
people's lives
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Human migration impacts cultural development of societies.
- Human and physical systems interact and impact one another.
- Changes that occur in the meaning, use, location,
distribution, and importance of resources affect human and physical
systems
- Understanding the past, present and future requires
knowledge of people, places, and environments.
Essential Questions - most
important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after
completing learning activities.
- Why
study Geography?
- Where, why there? Why should we care?
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How, and why, do people define regions?
- What careers are based on a knowledge of geography?
- How do physical processes shape the earth’s surface?
- What are the positive and negative effects of
physical processes on people’s lives?
- How do global concepts impact people’s lives?
- What are the physical characteristics that give a
place meaning?
- What are the human characteristics that give a place
meaning?
- Why do people move?
- How
do people modify/adapt and/or depend upon the physical environment?
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How
has technology expanded human capacity to modify the environment?
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How do societies value and use
Earth’s natural resource?
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Why are ecosystems important in
understanding the environment?
Standards and Benchmarks
Standard G1: Students know
how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate
and derive information about people, places, and environments.
Benchmark A: Students
know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire,
process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
Benchmark B:
Students develop knowledge of Earth to locate
people, places, and environments.
Benchmark C:
Students know how to analyze the dynamic
spatial organization of people, places and environments.
Standard
G2: Students
know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this
knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
Benchmark A: Students know the physical and human characteristics of places.
Benchmark B: Students know how and why people define regions.
Benchmark C: Students know how culture and experience influence people’s
perceptions of places and regions.
Standard G3:
Students understand how physical processes shape Earth’s surface patterns
and systems.
Benchmark A: Students know the physical processes that shape Earth’s surface
patterns.
Benchmark B: Students know the characteristics and distributions of physical
systems of land, air, water, plants, and animals.
Standard
G4: Students
understand how economic, political, cultural and social processes interact
to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and
conflict.
Benchmark A: Students understand how economic, political, cultural and
social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations,
interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
Benchmark B: Students know the nature and spatial distribution of cultural
patterns.
Benchmark C: Students know the patterns and networks of economic
interdependence.
Benchmark D:
Students know the processes, patterns, and
functions and human settlement.
Benchmark E: Students know how cooperation and conflict among people
influence the division and control of Earth’s surface.
Standard G5:
Students understand the effects of interactions
between human and physical systems and
changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Benchmark A: Students know how human actions modify the physical
environment.
Benchmark B: Students
know how physical systems affect human systems.
Benchmark C: Students know the changes that occur in the meaning, use,
location, distribution, and importance of resources.
Standard G6:
Students apply knowledge of people, places, and
environments to understand the past and present and to plan for the
future.
Benchmark A:
Students know how to apply geography to
understand the past.
Benchmark B: Students know how to apply geography to understand the present
and plan for the future. |
