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Social Studies Standards
HISTORY
1. Students
understand the chronological organization of history and know how to
organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain
historical relationships.
2.
Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical
inquiry*.
3. Students
understand that societies* are diverse* and have changed
over time.
4. Students
understand how science, technology, and economic activity
have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout
history.
5. Students
understand political institutions and theories that have
developed and changed over time.
6. Students know
that religious and philosophical ideas have been
powerful forces throughout history.
GEOGRAPHY
1.
Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic
tools* to locate and derive information about people, places,
and environments.
2.
Students know the physical* and human characteristics* of places, and use this knowledge to define
and study regions* and their patterns
of change.
3.
Students understand how physical processes* shape Earth’s* surface
patterns* and systems*.
4.
Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes* interact to shape
patterns of human populations, interdependence*,
cooperation, and conflict.
5.
Students understand the effects of interactions between human* and
physical systems* and the changes in meaning, use, distribution*,
and importance of resources*.
6.
Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand the past and present
and to plan for the future.
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