Michigan Content Standards

Later Elementary

II.Geographic Perspective

Content Standard 1: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements. ( People, Places, and Cultures

2. Locate and describe diverse kinds of communities and explain the reasons for their characteristics and locations.

3. Locate and describe the major places, cultures, and communities of the nation and compare characteristics.

Content Standard 2: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of ecosystems, resources, human adaptation, environmental impact, and the interrelationships among them. (Human/Environment Interaction)

3. Describe the major physical patterns, ecosystems, resources, and land uses of the state, region, and country and explain the processes that created them.

4. Explain how various people and cultures have adapted to and modified the environment.

Content Standard 3: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of economic activities, trade, political activities, migration, information flow, and the interrelationships among them. (Location, Movement and Connections)

1. Describe major kinds of economic activity and explain the factors influencing their location.

Content Standard 4: All students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states, regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the processes that created them. (Regions, Patterns, and Processes)

2. Describe places, cultures, and communities in the United States and compare them with those in other regions and countries.

V. Inquiry

Content Standard 1: All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts, and timelines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information. (Information Processing)

1. Locate information about local, state and national communities using a variety of traditional sources, electronic technologies, and direct observations.

 

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