Students know and understand that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history. Students can apply knowledge of the world past and present to make responsible decisions for the future. All students will demonstrate an understanding of geography and the environment to participate as productive and responsible citizens. 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 and understand the physical and human characteristics of places in order to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
Students know and understand how physical processes shape earth s surface patterns and systems.
Students know and understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict. Students know and 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. All students will demonstrate an understanding of democracy to participate as productive and responsible citizens. Students know and understand the purposes of government and the basic constitutional principles of the U.S. republican form of government.