Social Studies:
Commencement
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Standard 3:
Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
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Geography can be divided into six essential elements which can be used to analyze important historic, geographic, economic, and environmental questions and issues. These six elements include: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical settings (inculding natural resources) and, human systems, environment and society, and the use of geography. (Adapted from The National Geography Standards, 1994: Geography for Life).
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Students understand the development and interactions of social/cultural, political, economic, and religious systems in different regions of the world.
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Students analyze how the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the Earth's surface (Taken from National Geography Standards, 1994).
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Students understand how to develop and use maps and other graphic representations to display geographic issues, problems, and questions.
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Students describe the physical characteristics of the Earth's surface and investigate the continual reshaping of the surface by physical processes and human activities.
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Students investigate the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on the Earth's surface (Taken from National Geography Standards, 1994).
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Students explain how technological change affects people, places, and regions.
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Geography requires the development and application of the skills of asking and answering geographic questions; analyzing theories of geography; and acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information. (Adapted from: The National Geography Standards, 1994: Geography for Life).
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Students locate and gather geographic information from a variety of primary and secondary sources (Taken from National Geography Standards, 1994).
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Students develop and test generalizations and conclusions and pose analytical questions based on the results of geographic inquiry.
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Students analyze geographic information by developing and testing inferences and hypotheses, and formulating conclusions from maps, photographs, computer models, and other geographic representations (Adapted from National Geography Standards, 1994).
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Students select and design maps, graphs, tables, charts, diagrams, and other graphic representations to present geographic information.
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Students plan, organize, and present geographic research projects.
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