Explain how people have modified the environment and used technology to make places more suitable for humans, as well as [...]

Describe patterns of settlement and explain why people settle where they do and how people make their livings.

Explain the patterns, causes, and consequences of major human migrations.

Identify factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict between and among cultural groups (control/use of natural resources, power, wealth, and [...]

Evaluate examples of cooperation and conflict within the region under study from different perspectives.

Describe examples of how humans have impacted and are continuing to impact the environment in different places as a consequence [...]

Explain how different technologies can have positive and negative impacts on the environment.

Analyze ways in which human-induced changes in the physical environment in one place can cause changes in other places.

Define natural resources and explain how people in different places use, define, and acquire resources in different ways.

Analyze the effects that a change in the physical environment could have on human activities and the actions people would [...]

Analyze how combinations of human decisions and natural forces can lead to (or help people avoid) a natural disaster.

Identify global issues.

Investigate a contemporary global issue by applying the skills of geographic inquiry.

Compare and contrast different ideas about the purposes of government in different nations, nation-states or governments.

Define the characteristics of modern nation-states.

Draw a sketch map, or add information to an outline map, of the world or a world region.

Apply the skills of geographic inquiry (asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic information, analyzing geographic information, and answering [...]

Explain why maps of the same place may vary, including the perspectives and purposes of the cartographers.

Use, interpret, and create maps and graphs representing population characteristics, natural features, and land use of the region under study.

Use images as the basis for answering geographic questions about the human and physical characteristics of places and major world [...]

Locate and use information from GIS and satellite remote sensing to answer geographic questions.

Create or interpret a map of the population distribution of a region and generalize about the factors influencing the distribution [...]

Use the fundamental themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) to describe regions or places on earth.

Explain the different ways in which places are connected and how those connections demonstrate interdependence and accessibility.

Locate and describe the basic patterns of landforms.

Locate and describe the basic patterns and processes of plate tectonics.

Locate and describe the characteristics and patterns of major world climates and ecosystems.

Describe the human characteristics of the region under study, including languages, religions, economic system, governmental system, cultural traditions.

Explain how communities are affected positively or negatively by changes in technology.

Explain how culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions.

Interpret population pyramids from different countries including birth rates, death rates, male-female differences, and the causes and consequences of the [...]

Generalize about how human and natural factors have influenced how people make a living and perform other activities in a [...]

Interpret and compare climographs from different latitudes and locations.

Explain the factors that cause different climate types.

Locate major ecosystems and explain how and why they are similar or different as a consequence of latitude, elevation, land-forms, [...]

Use a variety of geographic tools (maps, globes, and web-based geography technology) to analyze the world at global, regional, and [...]

Develop and defend informed aesthetic opinions about works of art using artistic vocabulary at a developing level.

Identify personal and community experiences within works of art at a developing level.

Recognize and describe how art contributes to and reflects all societies and cultures.

Develop an understanding of the historical, social, and cultural contexts of artwork with aesthetic sophistication.

Decode and interpret artwork to discern between prejudice and tolerance, bias, and fact at a developing level.

Recognize and describe personal, family, and community connections with artworks at a developing level.

Recognize the skills used in visual arts careers at a developing level.

Compare the characteristics of work in two or more art forms that are dissimilar in subject matter, historical periods, or [...]

Demonstrate an understanding of their place in the visual world and develop an appreciation of how they are part of [...]

Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school are interrelated with the visual [...]

Identify specific actions that reflect feelings and emotions in a live theatrical production.

Examine how varied art forms are expressed in recorded or live theatre performances.

List and describe how theatre can synthesize all of the arts.

Communicate ideas from viewing varied theatrical and artistic events