Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Students use data collection and analysis, statistics, and probability in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems. Students know and understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world. Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
Students understand political institutions and theories that have developed and changed over time.
Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources. Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand the past and present and to plan for the future.