| Location |
- Use political maps,
physical maps and aerial photographs to ask and answer questions about the
local community.
- Use a compass rose and cardinal
directions to describe the relative location of places.
- Read and interpret maps by using
the map title, map key, direction indicator and symbols to answer
questions about the local community.
- Use a number/letter grid system to
locate physical and human features on a map.
- Identify the location of the
equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime
Meridian, the tropics and the hemispheres on maps and globes.
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| Places and Regions |
Identify and describe
the landforms and climate, vegetation, population and economic
characteristics of the local community.
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| Human Environmental
Interaction |
Identify ways that
physical characteristics of the environment (i.e., landforms, bodies of
water, climate and vegetation) affect and have been modified by the local
community.
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| Movement |
Identify systems of
transportation used to move people and products and systems of
communication used to move ideas from place to place.
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| Scarcity and Resource
Allocation |
Define opportunity cost
and give an example of the opportunity cost of a personal decision.
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| Production, Distribution
and Consumption |
- Identify people who purchase
goods and services as consumers and people who make goods or provide
services as producers.
- Categorize economic
activities as examples of production or consumption.
- Explain the advantages and
disadvantages of specialization and the division of labor to produce
items.
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| Markets |
- Identify different forms of
money used over time, and recognize that money facilitates the
purchase of goods, services and resources and enables savings.
- Explain how the local
community is an example of a market where buyers and sellers
exchange goods and services.
- Identify examples of economic
competition in the local community.
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