Standards for Reflection Activity

Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.

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

Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.

Identify positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make.

Evaluate alternative approaches or solutions to current economic issues in terms of benefits and costs for different groups and society as a whole.

Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.

Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.

Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.

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

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.

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