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Students will understand how geography influences community
location and development.
Objective 1:
Determine the relationships between human settlement and geography.   Web sites
Indicators:
- Identify the geographic features common to areas where human settlements exist.
- Use map features to make logical inferences and describe relationships between
human settlement and physical geography (e.g. population density in relation to
latitude, cities’ proximity to water, utilization of natural resources).
- Compare the shapes and purposes of natural and human-made boundaries of
cities, counties and states.
Objective 2:
Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments and
how other communities have modified the environment. Web sites
Indicators:
- Describe the major world ecosystems (i.e. desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland,
mountain, forest, wetland).
- Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems.
- Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their
needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems).
- Investigate ways different communities have adapted into an ecosystem.
Objective 3:
Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment. Web sites
Indicators:
- Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation,
energy, industry).
- Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time.
- Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse,
recycle).
- Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment.
- Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change
to the physical environment.
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Students will understand cultural factors that shape a
community.
Objective 1:
Evaluate key factors that determine how a community develops. Web sites
Indicators:
- Identify the elements of culture (e.g. language, religion, customs, artistic
expression, systems of exchange).
- Describe how stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions
of culture.
- Compare elements of the local community with communities from different parts
of the world (e.g. industry, economic specialization )
- Identify and explain the interrelationship of the environment (e.g. location, natural
resources, climate) and community development (e.g. food, shelter, clothing,
industries, markets, recreation, artistic creations).
- Examine changes in communities that can or have occurred when two or more
cultures interact.
- Explain changes within communities caused by human inventions (e.g. steel
plow, internal combustion engine, television, computer).
Objective 2:
Explain how selected indigenous cultures of the Americas have changed over
time. Web sites
Indicators:
- Describe and compare early indigenous people of the Americas (e.g. Eastern
Woodlands, Plains, Great Basin, Southwestern, Arctic, Incan, Aztec, Mayan).
- Analyze how these cultures changed with the arrival of people from Europe, and
how the cultures of the Europeans changed.
- Identify how indigenous people maintain cultural traditions today.
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Students will understand the principles of civic responsibility
in classroom, community, and country.
Objective 1:
Describe the rights and responsibilities inherent in being a contributing member of
a community. Web sites
Indicators:
- Identify how these rights and responsibilities are reflected in the patriotic symbols
and traditions of the United States (i.e. Pledge of Allegiance, flag etiquette).
- List the responsibilities community members have to one another.
- Identify why these responsibilities are important for a functioning community (e.g. voting, jury duty, taxpaying, obedience to laws).
Objective 2:
Identify ways community needs are met by government. Web sites
Indicators:
- Differentiate between personal and community needs.
- Identify roles of representative government (e.g. make laws, maintain order, levy
taxes, provide public services).
- Research community needs and the role government serves in meeting those
needs.
Objective 3:
Apply principles of civic responsibility. Web sites
Indicators:
- Engage in meaningful dialogue about the community and current events within
the classroom, school, and local community.
- Identify and consider the diverse viewpoints of the people who comprise a
community.
- Demonstrate respect for the opinions, backgrounds, and cultures of others.
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