SS06 Standards
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STANDARD 1: Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.
1.1 Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
1.2 Students develop knowledge of Earth to locate people, places, and environments.
1.3 Students know how to analyze the dynamic spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
STANDARD 2: Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
2.1 Students know the physical and human characteristics of places.
2.2 Students know how and why people define regions.
2.3 Students know how culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
STANDARD 3: Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and systems.
3.1 Students know the physical processes that shape Earth's surface patterns.
3.2 Students know the characteristics and distributions of physical systems of land, air, water, plants, and animals.
STANDARD 4: Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
4.1 Students know the characteristics, location, distribution, and migration of human populations.
4.2 Students know the nature and spatial distribution of cultural patterns.
4.3 Students know the patterns and networks of economic interdependence.
4.4 Students know the processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement.
4.5 Students know how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth's surface.
STANDARD 5: Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
5.1 Students know how human actions modify the physical environment.
5.2 Students know how physical systems affect human systems.
5.3 Students know the changes that occur in the meaning, use, location, distribution, and importance of resources.
STANDARD 6: Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand the past and present and to plan for the future.
6.1 Students know how to apply geography to understand the past.
6.2 Students know how to apply geography to understand the present and plan for the future.
