education standards

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

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

Summarize how different kinds of historical sources are used to explain events in the past.

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

Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.

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

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.

Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments.

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

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

Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.

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

Describe ways people can increase productivity by using improved capital goods and improving their human capital.

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

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

Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

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

Explain how trade leads to increasing economic interdependence among nations.

Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade.

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

Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.

Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.

Explain connections among historical contexts and people's perspectives at the time.

Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade.

Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

Explain connections among historical contexts and people's perspectives at the time.

Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.

Explain how trade leads to increasing economic interdependence among nations.

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

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

Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

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

Construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places.

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

Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society.

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

Explain how trade leads to increasing economic interdependence among nations.

Explain the effects of increasing economic interdependence on different groups within participating nations.

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

Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade.

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

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

Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

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

Explain connections among historical contexts and people's perspectives at the time.