SS09 Essential Skills
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World Geography Essential Skills for Level 9
First Semester:
Students will be able to:
• Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
• Locate and identify 80% of countries on map of the Western Hemisphere.
• Construct and use globes, maps and other geographical tools to interrupt information about people, places and things in the Western Hemisphere.
• Identify the human characteristics of places in the Western Hemisphere
• Locate and identify 80% of the physical features of the Western Hemisphere.
• Evaluate the forces of cooperation and conflict within the region.
• Identify how human actions modify the physical environment.
• Recognize how physical systems affect human systems.
• Use geography to interpret the past.
• Apply geography to understand the present and plan for the future.
• Evaluate the patterns and networks of economic interdependence.
Second Semester:
Students will be able to:
• Analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
• Locate and identify 80% of countries on map of the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Construct and use globes, maps, latitude and longitude, and other geographical tools to interrupt information about people, places and things in the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Identify the human characteristics of places in the Eastern Hemisphere and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
• Locate and identify 80% of the physical features of the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Evaluate the forces of cooperation and conflict within the region.
• Identify how human actions modify the physical environment through economical, political, cultural, and social interactions.
• Recognize how physical systems affect human systems (climate, weather patterns, etc...).
• Use geography to interpret the past.
• Apply geography to understand the present and plan for the future.
• Evaluate the patterns and networks of economic interdependence.
