4.Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. 5.Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources. 6.Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments. Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
Students understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and systems.
Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict. 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. Students understand the chronological organization of history and know how to organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships. Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.