GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 1

Students should know and understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 2

• Students should know and understand how to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context.

ECONOMICS STANDARD 15

• Students should understand that investment in factories, machinery, new technology, and the health, education, and training of people can raise future standards of living.

SOCIAL STUDIES STRAND 3: PEOPLE, PLACES, & ENVIRONMENT

• Students should be able to distinguish geographic relationships such as population density and spatial distribution patterns.
• Students should be able to create, interpret, use, and synthesize information from various representations of the earth, such as maps, globes, and photographs.
• Students should be able to elaborate mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape

• Students should be able to use economic concepts to help explain historical and current developments and issues, in local, national, or global contexts.