Coon Rapids-Bayard CSD

7th Grade Geography

Standards & Benchmarks

July 28, 2008

 

  1. Students will understand the world through historical, cultural and personal perspectives and how it affects their daily lives.

A.     Describe ways that mental maps reflect attitudes about places.

B.     Describe factors affecting location of human activities, including land use patterns in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

C.     Analyze patterns and processes of migration and diffusion.

D.     Draw complex and accurate maps from memory and interpret them to answer questions about the location of physical features.

 

  1. The students will develop the knowledge, skills and values essential to be responsible national and world citizens.

A.     Explain how differing perceptions of places, people and resources have 

led to how the earth is divided and organized today.

B.     Demonstrates how to apply geography to interpret the past and use that specific geographic information to plan for the future.

C.     Analyze how the forces of cooperation and conflict among citizens of the earth have resulted in conflicts and use that information to be a responsible global citizen.

                                        

  1. Students will interpret and apply data presented in a variety of forms such as words, pictures, maps, graphs and tables.
    1. Evaluate climate maps and other climate to understand world weather patterns.
    2. Demonstrate how to use maps and other geographical tools and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a special perspective.
    3. Create and use different kinds of maps, globes, charts and slide shows.
    4. Analyze and evaluate how the earth is divided into human and physical regions.
    5. Evaluate why places and regions are important to human identity

(e.g., the Middle East and Siberia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Students will develop a basic concern for people as they work together in society.
    1. Analyze the fundamental role that geography has played in the settlement of the earth and how all earth’s citizens have responsibilities to each other.
    2. Understand how the earth patterns and networks are increasingly becoming interdependent.
    3. Analyze how all people on Earth differ and how all of Earth’s citizens have contributions to make to society.
    4. Evaluate how the earth is changing as a result of technology and how to use technology to better the lives of all people on earth.

 

  1. Students will understand how they are linked to other people in the local community, the state, the nation and the world.
    1. Analyze how humans have changed their environment and how that affects the earth.
    2. Understand how physical regions affect cultural settlement.
    3. Describe the distribution of the world’s resources as it affect relationships and how all people on Earth have to cooperate to maximize their quality of life.

 

 

  1. Students will understand how the world is and has been organized politically, socially, economically and environmentally.
    1. Analyze how individual and cultural characteristics affect perceptions of locales and regions.
    2. Evaluate the effects of technology on the developments, changes to, and interactions of cultures.
    3. Understand the role that history has played in settlement of the earth and the current problems that exist on earth borders.
    4. Understand how explorers have impacted the earth’s organization and how explorers made significant contribution to the field of geography.