education standards

Describe how the spatial patterns of economic activities in a place change over time because of interactions with nearby and distant places.

Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.

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

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

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

Reason with shapes and their attributes. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. (Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.)

Measure and estimate lengths in standard units. Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

Measure and estimate lengths in standard units. Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.