Standards for Basket Weaving

Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.

Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in a place or region.

Analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.

Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures.

Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.

Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.

Compare how people in different types of communities use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.