GEOGRAPHY
Geography for Life: National Geography Standards
NGS National Geographic Society
Click on a standard to view the targets and find supporting lessons:
The World in Spatial Terms
1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective
2. How to use mental maps to organize information about people. Places, and environments in a spatial context
3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on earth's surface
Places and Regions
4. The Physical and Human Characteristics of Places
5. That people create regions to interpret earth's complexity
6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
7. The physical processes that shape the patterns of earth's surface
8. The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on earth's surface
Human Systems
9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on earth's surface
10. The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of earth's cultural mosaics
11. The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on earth's surface
12. The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement
13. How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of earth's surface
Environment and Society
14. How human actions modify the physical environment
15. How physical systems affect human systems
16. The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources
17. How to apply geography to interpret the past
18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future
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