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National
Geography Standards Grades 9-12
- 2B-Identify
the ways in which mental maps influence human decisions about
location, settlement, and public policy, identifying the ways
in which values, attitudes, and perceptions are reflected in past
and present decisions concerning location
- 3C-Explain
how people perceive and use space, explaining why people have
different preferences for residential locations
- 4A-Explain
place from a variety of points of view, describing the same place
at different times in its history
- 5C-Identify
human and physical changes in regions and explain the factors
that contribute to those changes, explaining factors that contribute
to the dynamic nature of regions
- 6A-Explain
why places and regions are important to individual human identities
and as symbols for unifying or fragmenting society, identifying
how places take on symbolic meaning and interpreting how people
express attachments to places and regions
- 6C-Analyze
the ways in which people's changing views of places and regions
reflect cultural change, explaining how shifts from a predominantly
rural to a predominantly urban society influences the ways people
perceive an environment
- 11C-Analyze
the relationships between various settlement patterns, their associated
economic activities, and the relative land values
- 14C-Develop
possible solutions to scenarios of environmental change induced
by human modification of the physical environment, choosing examples
of human modification of the landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries
and compare the ways in which the physical environment's ability
to accommodate such modification has changed
- 16A-Analyze
the relationships between the spatial distribution of settlements
and resources, describing how patterns of settlement are associated
with the location of resources
- 18D-Use
geography knowledge and skills to analyze problems and make decisions
within a spatial context, examining tourism in a developed country
to identify conflicts over resource use, the relative advantages
and disadvantages of tourism to local residents, and the costs
and benefits of tourism from several points of view to put together
a position paper for or against developing tourism in a new location
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