Element I: The World in Spatial Terms
Geography studies the relationship between people, places, and environments by mapping information about them into a spatial context.
The geographically informed student knows and understands:
STANDARD 1- How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
STANDARD 2- How to use cognitive maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in spatial context.
STANDARD 3- How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on the Earth's surface.
Element II: Places and Regions
The identities and lives of individuals and peoples are rooted in particular places and in those human constructs called regions.
The geographically informed student knows and understands:
STANDARD 4- The physical and human characteristics of places.
STANDARD 5- The creation of regions by people to interpret the Earth's complexity.
STANDARD 6- The influence of culture and experience upon people's perceptions of places and regions.
Element III: Physical Systems
Physical processes shape the Earth's surface and interact with plant and animal life to create. sustain, and modify ecosystems.
The geographically informed student knows and understands:
STANDARD 7- The physical processes that shape the patterns of the Earth's surface.
STANDARD 8- The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on the Earth's surface.
Element IV: Human Systems
People are central to geography in that human activities help shape the Earth's surface, human settlements and structures are a part of the Earth's surface, and humans compete for control of the Earth's surface.
The geographically informed student knows and understands:
STANDARD 9- The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on the Earth's surface.
STANDARD 10- The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of the Earth's cultural mosaics.
STANDARD 11- The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on the Earth's surface.
STANDARD 12- The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement.
STANDARD 13- The influential forces of cooperation and conflict among people regarding the division and control of the Earth's surface.
Element V: Environment and Society
The physical environment is modified by human activities, largely as a consequence of the ways in which human activities are also influenced by the Earth's physical features and processes.
The geographically informed student knows and understands:
STANDARD 14- The modifications of human actions upon the physical environment.
STANDARD 15- The effects of physical systems upon human systems.
STANDARD 16- The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Element VI: The Uses of Geography
Knowledge of geography enables people to develop an understanding of the relationships between people, places, and environment over time, that is, of Earth as it was, is, and might be.
The geographically informed student knows, understands, and can use:
STANDARD 17- The applications of geography to interpret the past.
STANDARD 18- Geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.
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