History

• Analyze the economic, political, and cultural interrelations, including conflicts, among peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500-1750 (9-10)
• Evaluate economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States from 1968 to the present (11-12)

Geography

• Explain the meaning and significance of place (9-10)
• Analyze the changing physical and human characteristics of places (9-10)
• Explain how relationships between humans and the physical environment lead to the formation of places and to a sense of personal and community identity (9-10)
• Describe the ways places and regions serve as symbols for individuals and society (9-10)
• Describe the ways different groups of people within a society view places and regions (9-10)
• Describe how self-interest and different points of view can be factors in conflict over resources and territory (9-10)

Economics

• Examine and provide examples of economic decision-making based upon geographic factors (9-10)
• Identify present-day choices that have important future consequences (11-12)