Integrate Michigan process and skills standards into a grade-appropriate project. Clearly state a global issue as a question of public [...]

Develop a plan for action: share and discuss findings of research and issue analysis in group discussions and debates. compose [...]

Compare and contrast various forms of government around the world.

Explain how governments address national and international issues and form policies, and how the policies may not be consistent with [...]

Explain the challenges to governments to address global issues, and the international cooperation needed to do so.

Analyze the impact of treaties, agreements, and international organizations on global issues.

Explain how incentives and disincentives in the market economy can change the decision-making process.

Analyze the impact of sanctions, tariffs, treaties, quotas, and subsidies.

Explain and compare how economic systems (traditional, command, market) answer the three basic economic questions: What goods and services will [...]

Compare and contrast the economic and ecological costs and benefits of different kinds of energy production. Examples may include but [...]

Use charts and graphs to compare imports and exports of different countries in the world and propose generalizations about patterns [...]

Diagram or map the flow of materials, labor, and capital used to produce a consumer product.

Explain how communication innovations have affected economic interactions and where and how people work.

Demonstrate knowledge of how, when, and where individuals would plan and conduct activities intended to advance views in matters of [...]

Engage in activities intended to contribute to solving the local, national or global issues studied.

Participate in projects to help or inform others.

Define culture and describe examples of cultural change through diffusion, including what has diffused, why and where it has spread, [...]

Compare and contrast the gender roles assigned to men and women in different societies.

Describe cultures of the region being studied, including the major languages and religions.

Explain how culture influences the daily lives of people.

Identify and describe the advantages, disadvantages, and impacts of different technologies used to transport people and products, and spread ideas [...]

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.