1. Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate, collect and interpret information about people, places and environments.
- Teen Talk: Students will be able to read, understand and use information presented in geographic tools.
- Examples in the classroom:
- Students will use maps, geographic representation and technology to analyze, explain, and solve geographic problems.
- Students will evaluate patterns of spatial organization, including the distribution and arrangement of settlements.
- Service Learning Activities:
- Students will predict when and where fires are likely to occur, based on vegetation and weather conditions. This will then be given to the Forest Service.
- Careers for Exploration:
- Military Service, Historian, Truck Driver, Cartographer, Meteorologist, Surveyor
- Classroom Exploration:
- World Geography, US History, World History, American Government, and World Literature.
2. Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and can use this knowledge to define and recognize regions and regional change.
- Teen Talk: Students will understand how differences in culture and climate change how people live.
- Examples in the classroom:
- Students will compare regions using multiple criteria.
- Students will know how cultural backgrounds and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
- Service Learning Activities:
- Students will do a phone poll of anything with cross-section of different occupations. Elections / School bonds / population concerns.
- Careers for Exploration:
- Meteorologist, Travel Agent, Geographer, Sociologist, Diplomat
- Classroom Exploration:
- Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Humanities, Ethnic Studies, Foreign Languages
3. Students know how economic, political, cultural and social processes interact to shape and change human populations.
- Teen Talk: Students will understand that relationships between countries depend on forms of government, economies, and natural resources. You need to know how to categorize how people interact with each other and with their environments.
- Examples in the classroom:
- Students will know the characteristics, location, distribution, and migration of human populations.
- Students will analyze how differing points of view and self-interests result in conflict over the control of territories and resources.
- Service Learning Activities:
- The students will conduct interviews with senior Citizens. How did you end up here?
- Careers for Exploration:
- Economist, Historian, Public Relations, Translator, Travel Agent, Flight Attendant
- Classroom Exploration:
- Economics, International Forum, Ethnic Studies, Comparative Religions, World Geography, International Business, American Government
4. Students know the effect of interactions between humans and their physical environments.
- Teen Talk: Students will know that changes to the environment change global economic, social and political conditions.
- Examples in the classroom:
- Students will analyze ways that humans depend upon adapt to and impact the physical environment.
- Students will evaluate policies and programs for resource use and management.
- Service Learning Activities.,
- Students will talk to orchard farmers, the Forest Service, and Biology Professors and make a poster demonstrating the various interactions between humans and their physical environment. Then they will present this to planning commissions.
- Careers for Exploration:
- Political Science, Environmentalist, Agriculture Business, Geologist, Disaster Relief
- Classroom Exploration:
- International Forum, Comparative Religions, Earth Science, World Geography, Physical Science, Geology, Chemistry in the Community, River Dynamics, World History