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Standards - Geography

Geography

Grades - K-3
Substrand - B. Maps and Globes
Standard - The student will use and create maps and globes to locate people, places and things.
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1. Students will locate places by using simple maps, and understand that maps are drawings of locations and places as viewed from above. 2. Students will recognize and locate the outline shape of the state of Minnesota on a map/globe. 3. Students will create and interpret simple maps using the map elements of title, direction, symbols, and a map key or legend.
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Grades - K-3
Substrand - C. Physical Features and Processes
Standard - The student will distinguish between physical and human-made features of places on the Earth’s surface.
1. Students will name and locate physical features of the United States, including places about which they have read.
2. Students will name and locate major human-made features of the United States, including features about which they have read.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - A. Concepts of Location
Standard - The student will identify and locate major physical and cultural features that played an important role in the history of Minnesota.
1. Students will locate major Minnesota ecosystems, topographic features, continental divides, river valleys, and cities.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - A. Concepts of Location
Standard - The student will use maps and globes to demonstrate specific and increasingly complex geographic knowledge.
1. Students will use political and thematic maps to locate major physical and cultural regions of the world and ancient civilizations studied.
2. Students will distinguish differences among uses of, and limitations of, different kinds of thematic maps to describe the development of Minnesota.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - A. Concepts of Location
Standard - The student will make and use maps to acquire, process, and report on the spatial organization of people and places on earth.
1. Students will create a variety of maps to scale.
2. Students will compare and contrast the differences among a variety of maps and explain the appropriate use of projections, symbols, coloring and shading, and select maps appropriate for answering questions they have.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - A. Concepts of Location
Standard - The student will use basic terminology describing basic physical and cultural features of continents studied.
1. Students will locate and describe major physical features and analyze how they influenced cultures/civilizations studied.
2. Students will describe and locate major physical features in their local community and analyze their impact on the community.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - C. Physical Features and Processes
Standard - The student will identify and locate geographic features associated with the development of Minnesota.
1. Students will identify and compare and contrast the landforms, natural vegetation, climate, and systems of rivers and lakes of Minnesota with those of other parts of the United States.
2. Students will identify physical features that shaped settlement and life-ways of the Dakota and the Ojibwe and analyze their impact.
3. Students will identify physical features that either hindered or promoted the development of the fur trade and the rapid settlement in the early 19th Century.
4. Students will identify physical features that either hindered or promoted the industrialization of the state.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - D. Interconnections
Standard - The student will give examples that demonstrate how people are connected to each other and the environment.
2. Students will analyze how the physical environment influences human activities.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - D. Interconnections
Standard - The student will identify examples of the changing relationships between the patterns of settlement and land use in Minnesota.
1. Students will give examples of how changes in technology made some locations in Minnesota more suitable for urbanization than others.
7. Students will use regions to analyze modern agriculture in MN.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - D. Interconnections
Standard - The student will demonstrate how various regional frameworks are used to analyze the variation in culture and human occupation of the Earth’s surface.
1. Students will explain the patterns of population density on the surface of the Earth and analyze the causes of population change.
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Grades - 4-8
Substrand - E. Essential Skills
Standard - The student will use maps, globes, geographic information systems and other sources of information to analyze the natures of places at a variety of scales.
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to obtain geographic information from a variety of print and electronic sources.
2. Students will make inferences and draw conclusions about the character of places based on analysis and comparison of maps, aerial photos, and other images.
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