Standards for Water Rights in the Desert

Explain how rules and laws change society and how people change rules and laws.

Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.

Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.

Explain how policies are developed to address public problems.

Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society.

Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.

Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families.

Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.

Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.

Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.

Explain how natural and human-made catastrophic events in one place affect people living in other places.

Identify ways that a catastrophic disaster may affect people living in a place.

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.

Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.

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

Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.

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

Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and cultural characteristics of specific places and regions.

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

Evaluate the impact of economic activities and political decisions on spatial patterns within and among urban, suburban, and rural regions.

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

Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

Evaluate the influences of long-term human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.

Evaluate the influence of long-term climate variability on human migration and settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scales.

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.