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| History and Government, Economics and Geography, Approved 2005
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Standard
Benchmark
Indicator | Description | Lesson Plans | Thinkfinity | Resources |
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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 explains and uses map titles, symbols, cardinal directions and intermediate directions, legends, latitude and longitude.
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3.1.2
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(K) The student locates major physical and political features from Earth from memory (e.g., Boston, Philadelphia, England, France, Italy, Spain, North America, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Yucatan Peninsula, Germany, Aleutian Islands, Bering Strait, Chesapeake Bay, Hudson Bay, Mexico City, Montreal, Netherlands, Norway, Ohio River, Portugal, Quebec City, St. Lawrence River).
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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 and compares the major physical characteristics of New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies and French and Spanish territories (e.g., location, climate, and resources).
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3.2.2
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(K) The student identifies and compares the human characteristics of the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies and French and Spanish territories (e.g., national origins, religion, customs, government, agriculture, industry, and architecture).
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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 identifies renewable and nonrenewable resources and their uses (e.g., fossil fuels, minerals, fertile soil, water power, forests, solar and wind power).
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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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(A) The student explains reasons for variation in population distribution (e.g., environment, migration, government policies).
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3.4.2
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(A) The student identifies the push-pull factors (causes) of human migration (e.g., push: war, famine, lack of economic opportunity; pull: religious freedom, economic opportunity, joining family or friends).
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3.4.3
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(K) The student describes the effects of human migration on place and population (e.g., population shifts, conflict, acculturation; diffusion of ideas, diseases, crops and culture).
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3.4.4
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(K) The student describes factors that influence and change the location and distribution of economic activities (e.g., resources, technology, transportation and government).
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3.4.5
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(A) The student understands that forces of conflict and cooperation divide or unite people (e.g., land disputes, religious intolerance, taxation).
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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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(A) The student examines varying viewpoints regarding resource use (e.g., American Indian vs. European settler, past vs. present).
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3.5.2
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(K) The student identifies the relationship between the acquisition and use of natural resources and advances in technology using historical and contemporary examples (e.g., compass for navigation, water power, steel plow).
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