Standards for Story: Wind and Rain

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.

Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments.

Explain multiple causes and effects of events and developments in the past.

Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the past.