Coon Rapids-Bayard CSD

Grades 10-12 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. Evaluate and select appropriate geographic representations to analyze and explain natural and man-made issues and problems.

B. Understand the vocabulary and concepts of spatial interaction, including and an analysis of population distributions and settlement patterns..

C. Analyze the effects of geographic factors on major events in United States and United States History.

D. Understand how to use the skills of historical analysis to apply to current social, political, geographic and economic issues.

E. Describe and analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations across the Earth.

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

A.  Evaluate standard, conflicts and issues related to universal human rights and

       their impact on world peace.

B.   Demonstrates an understanding of why and how earth’s resources can be

       used to benefit all people on earth.

C. Analyze the forces of cooperation and conflict among people and use that information to be a positive member of the earth’s population

3. 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 data to understand world weather patterns.
2. Analyze the interrelationships among natural and human processes that shape the geographic connections and characteristics of regions, including connections among economic development, urbanization, population growth and environmental change.
3. Analyze how the character and meaning of a place is related to its economic, social and cultural characteristics and why diverse groups in society view places and regions differently.
4. Analyze and evaluate changes in regions and recognize the patterns and causes of those changes.
5. Evaluate why places and regions are important to human identity (e.g., Native Americans and the Amish)

4. Students will develop a basic concern for people as they work together in society.
1. Analyze the fundamental role that geography has played in human history.
2. Compare and contrast how different viewpoints influence policy regarding the use and managements of natural resources..
3. Analyze how cooperation and conflict are involved in shaping the distribution of political, social, and economic factors in Iowa, United States, and throughout the World.

5. Students will understand how they are linked to other people in the local community, the state, the nation and the world.
1. Explain the patterns and networks of economic interdependence of Earth’s surface.
2. Understand how decisions that people make can affect all people on Earth.
3. Describe the distribution of the world’s resources as it affects international economic relationships and how all people on Earth have to cooperate to prosper and continue to survive.

6. Students will understand how the world is and has been organized politically, socially, economically and environmentally.
1. Analyze the interrelationships among settlement, migration, population-distribution patterns, landforms, and climates in developing and developed countries.
2. Evaluate the effects of technology on the developments, changes to, and interactions of cultures.
3. Analyze the geographic factors that influence the major world patterns of economic activity, economic connections among different regions, changing alignments in world trade patterns, and the potential redistribution of resources based on changing patterns and alignments.
4. Understand how explorers have impacted the earth’s organization and how explorers made significant contribution to the field of geography.