Grade 6 Geography
Unit 4: Standards and Benchmarks
Unit 4: Standards and Benchmarks
Middle & High School Social Studies, Grade 6, 2.0 Geography
(People, Places, and Environment) Understands the concepts of geography and demography and how geography and demography influence and are influenced by human history
SS6.2.11 Propose, compare, and evaluate alternative uses of land and resources in communities, regions, nations, and the world.
Middle & High School Social Studies, Grade 6, 3.0 Society
(Governance and Citizenship) Understands why societies create and adopt systems of governance and how these systems address human needs, rights, and citizen responsibilities
SS6.3.1 Analyzes strengths and weaknesses of various kinds of government systems in terms of the purposes they are designed to serve
AERO: Social Studies (2012), AERO: Grade 6/ World Regions, Time, Continuity, and Change
Standard 1: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships.
1.8.a Apply key concepts such as chronology, causality, and conflict to identify patterns of historical change.
1.8.b Apply knowledge of the past to explain current events.
1.8.c Explain the causes of significant historical and current political events and issues.
AERO: Social Studies (2012), AERO: Grade 6/ World Regions, Geography
Standard 3: Students will understand the interactions and relationship between human societies and their physical environment.
3.8.a Use appropriate data sources and tools to generate, manipulate, and interpret geographic information such as the location of, size of, and distances between places.
3.8.b Describe social effects of environmental changes and crises resulting from natural phenomena.
3.8.c Explain voluntary and involuntary migration and its effects on the physical and human characteristics of a place.
3.8.d Evaluate conventional and alternative uses of land and water resources in the community, region and beyond.
3.8.e Describe ways that human events have influenced, and been influenced by, physical and human geographic conditions in local, regional, national, and global settings.
3.8.f Analyze the structure and characteristics of different populations and population patterns.
(People, Places, and Environment) Understands the concepts of geography and demography and how geography and demography influence and are influenced by human history
SS6.2.11 Propose, compare, and evaluate alternative uses of land and resources in communities, regions, nations, and the world.
Middle & High School Social Studies, Grade 6, 3.0 Society
(Governance and Citizenship) Understands why societies create and adopt systems of governance and how these systems address human needs, rights, and citizen responsibilities
SS6.3.1 Analyzes strengths and weaknesses of various kinds of government systems in terms of the purposes they are designed to serve
AERO: Social Studies (2012), AERO: Grade 6/ World Regions, Time, Continuity, and Change
Standard 1: Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships.
1.8.a Apply key concepts such as chronology, causality, and conflict to identify patterns of historical change.
1.8.b Apply knowledge of the past to explain current events.
1.8.c Explain the causes of significant historical and current political events and issues.
AERO: Social Studies (2012), AERO: Grade 6/ World Regions, Geography
Standard 3: Students will understand the interactions and relationship between human societies and their physical environment.
3.8.a Use appropriate data sources and tools to generate, manipulate, and interpret geographic information such as the location of, size of, and distances between places.
3.8.b Describe social effects of environmental changes and crises resulting from natural phenomena.
3.8.c Explain voluntary and involuntary migration and its effects on the physical and human characteristics of a place.
3.8.d Evaluate conventional and alternative uses of land and water resources in the community, region and beyond.
3.8.e Describe ways that human events have influenced, and been influenced by, physical and human geographic conditions in local, regional, national, and global settings.
3.8.f Analyze the structure and characteristics of different populations and population patterns.