Standard 1: Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.

Standard 2: Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.

Standard 3: Students understand how physical processes shape Earth’s surface patterns and systems.

Standard 4: Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.

Standard 5: Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.

Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand the past and present and to plan for the future.

Standard 1: Students understand that because of the condition of scarcity, decisions must be made about the use of resources.

Standard 2: Students understand how different economic systems impact decisions about the use of resources and the production and distribution of goods and services.

Standard 3: Students understand the results of trade, exchange, and interdependence among individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.

Standard 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.

Standard 2: Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.

Standard 3: Students understand that societies are diverse and have changed over time.

Standard 4: Students understand how science, technology, and economic activity have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout history.

Standard 5: Students understand political institutions and theories that have developed and changed over time.

Standard 6: Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.