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Social Studies	K	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	World Geography
Identify ordinary people who have shaped the community.
Locate places on the school campus and describe their relative locations.
Identify the physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather.
Identify examples of technology used in the home and school.
Describe how technology helps accomplish specific tasks.
Describe how his or her life might be different without modern technology.
List ways in which technology meets people's needs.
Obtain information about a topic using a variety of oral sources such as conversations, interviews, and music.
Obtain information about a topic using a variety of visual sources such as pictures, symbols, television, maps, computer images, print material, and artifacts.
Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences.
Create and interpret visuals including pictures and maps.
Use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.
Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision.
Locate places using the four cardinal directions.
Describe the location of self and objects relative to other locations in the classroom and school.
Create and use simple maps to identify the location of places in the classroom.
Locate places of significance on maps and globes such as the local community.
Identify and describe the physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather.
Identify ordinary people who exemplify good citizenship and exhibit a love of individualism and inventiveness.
Explain how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom.
Use symbols, find locations, and determine directions on maps and globes.
Draw maps to show places and routes.
Locate the community, Texas, the United States, and selected countries on maps and globes.
Identify selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage.
Explain the significance of selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage.
Compare ways in which people in the local community and communities around the world meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation, over time and in the present.
Use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places such as the Amazon River, Himalayan Mountains, and Washington D.C. on maps and globes.
Use a scale to determine the distance between places on maps and globes.
Identify and use the compass rose.
Draw maps of places and regions that contain map elements including a title.
Identify examples of actions individuals and groups can take to improve the community.
Use various parts of a source, including the table of contents, glossary, and index, as well as keyword computer searches, to locate information.
Interpret and create visuals including graphs, charts, tables, timelines, illustrations, and maps.
Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies information such as maps and graphs.
Create written and visual material such as stories, poems, pictures, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas.
Use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation.
Translate geographic data into a variety of formats such as raw data to graphs and maps.
Differentiate between, locate, and use primary and secondary sources such as computer software; interviews; biographies; oral, print, and visual material; and artifacts to acquire information about the United States and Texas.
Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions.
Organize and interpret information in outlines, reports, databases, and visuals including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps.
Identify different points of view about an issue or topic.
Create written and visual material such as journal entries, reports, graphic organizers, outlines, and bibliographies.
Incorporate main and supporting ideas in verbal and written communication.
Identify significant examples of art, music, and literature from various periods in U.S. history.
Explain how examples of art, music, and literature reflect the times during which they were created.
Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns for selected world regions and countries shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases.
Compare selected world regions and countries using data from maps, graphs, charts, databases, and models.
Describe ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment.
Relate ways in which contemporary expressions of culture have been influenced by the past.
Describe ways in which societal issues influence creative expressions.
Identify examples of art, music, and literature that have transcended the boundaries of societies and convey universal themes.
Create thematic maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases representing various aspects of Texas during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Compare types and uses of technology, past and present.
Evaluate the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations on the use of resources such as fossil fuels, water, and land.
Make predictions about economic, social, and environmental consequences that may result from future scientific discoveries and technological innovations.
Evaluate the validity of a source based on language, corroboration with other sources, and information about the author.
Transfer information from one medium to another, including written to visual and statistical to written or visual, using computer software as appropriate.
Create thematic maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases representing various aspects of the United States.
Explain the distribution of different types of climate in terms of patterns of temperature.
Explain the distribution of plants and animals in different regions of the world using the relationships among climate.
Construct and analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future growth trends.
Describe the impact of and analyze the reaction of the environment to abnormal and/or hazardous environmental conditions at different scales such as El Niño, floods, droughts, and hurricanes.
Analyze ways technological innovations have allowed humans to adapt to places shaped by physical processes such as floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
Describe the impact of new technologies, new markets, and revised perceptions of resources.
Use historical, geographic, and statistical information from a variety of sources such as databases, field interviews, media services, and questionnaires to answer geographic questions and infer geographic relationships.
Analyze and evaluate the validity and utility of multiple sources of geographic information such as primary and secondary sources, aerial photographs, and maps.
Construct and interpret maps to answer geographic questions, infer geographic relationships, and analyze geographic change.
Apply basic statistical concepts and analytical methods such as computer-based spreadsheets and statistical software to analyze geographic data.
Use a series of maps, including a computer-based geographic information system, to obtain and analyze data needed to solve geographic and locational problems.
Design and draw appropriate maps and other graphics such as sketch maps, diagrams, tables, and graphs to present geographic information including geographic features, geographic distributions, and geographic relationships.
Apply appropriate vocabulary, geographic models, generalizations, theories, and skills to present geographic information.
Use geographic terminology correctly.
Plan, organize, and complete a group research project that involves asking geographic questions; acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information; answering geographic questions; and communicating results.
Use case studies and geographic information systems to identify contemporary geographic problems and issues and to apply geographic knowledge and skills to answer real-world questions.