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| History and Government, Economics and Geography, Approved 2005
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Standard
Benchmark
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The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth's surface and relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
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3.1
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The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and technologies to locate, use, and present information about people, places, and environments.
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3.1.1
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(A) The student makes and uses maps to represent and locate familiar places within cities and Kansas (e.g., title, symbols, legend, compass rose, cardinal directions, grid system).
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3.1.2
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(K) The student identifies and correctly uses terms: North, South, East, West.
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3.1.3
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(K) The student locates major geography features (e.g., Rocky Mountains, Missouri River, Gulf of Mexico, Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Washington, DC).
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3.2
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The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and regions their distinctive character.
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3.2.1
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(K) The student identifies physical and human changes that have taken place over time in the local region (e.g., physical: tornadoes, drought, Kansas as an inland sea; human: new shopping centers; highways, houses).
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3.3
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The student understands Earth's physical systems and how physical processes shape Earth's surface.
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3.3.1
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(K) The student describes how weather affects environment (e.g., deciding when crops are planted and harvested, lack of rain causes drought, early freeze kills plants).
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3.4
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The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
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3.4.1
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(K) The student identifies the past and present settlement or development patterns of his/her community of local area.
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3.5
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The student understands the effects of interactions between human and physical systems.
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3.5.1
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(K) The student describes how physical systems influence people and their activities.
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