GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 6
Students should know and understand how culture and experience influence people’s perception of places and regions.

GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 9
Students should know and understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on earth’s surface.

GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 10
Students should know and understand the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of earth’s cultural mosaics.

SOCIAL STUDIES STRAND 1: CULTURE

• Students should be able to explain how information and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference
• Students should be able to articulate the implications of cultural diversity, as well as cohesion, within and across groups.
• Students should be able to compare and analyze societal patterns for preserving and transmitting culture while adapting to environmental or social change.

SOCIAL STUDIES STRAND 3: PEOPLE, PLACES, & ENVIRONMENT
Students should be able to describe and compare how people create places that reflect culture, human needs, government policy, and current values and ideals.