Skill or
Concept
A. Make and use maps, globes, and graphs to gather, analyze, and report spatial
(geographic) information.
ECE/K 1
Understand that a map is a representation of all or part of the earth.
Build number sense using graphs.
Understanding that maps represent real places.
Create a simple map of a familiar place.
Graph information that involves location.
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Use map keys, legions, and symbols and compass rose to derive information of various maps.
Locate places and regions using cardinal and intermediate directions.
Locate bodies of water, landforms, and urban areas in the state of
Alaska and neighboring states on maps.
Answer questions about regions of the United
States using various types of maps.
Interpret and construct different types of maps, graphs, and grids.
Use longitude, latitude, and scale on maps and globes to solve problems.
Map the world and identify oceans and continents including topography.
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Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using different geographic representations
(i.e. maps, globes, photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations.
World
History
B1. Utilize information about the human and physical features of places and regions.
Give examples of food, clothing, and shelter and how they change in different environments.
Recite address including street, city, and state.
Describe how the size and the character of a community change over time for geographic reasons.
Locate the community on a map and describe its natural and human features.
Using geographic tools, describe how places in
Alaska have changed and developed over time due to human activity.
Use geographic tools to identify, locate, and describe places and regions in the
United States and suggest reasons for their location.
Distinguish different types of maps and use them in analyzing an issue.
Apply the five themes of geography to understand human and physical features.
Utilize geographic resources to interpret and generate information explaining the interaction of physical and human systems, for example, computing population
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US History
Examine the effects of geography on culture.
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American
Govt/AK
Studies
Alaska
Studies:
Develop skills that will encourage thoughtful consideration of issues and choices facing
Alaska and the North
Slope
Geography that shaped contemporary
Alaska and the North
Slope.
Population, land, resource, governance and cultural context.
American
Govt/AK
Studies
Principles of cartography,
GIS
Applications, types of maps and info systems, how
GIS interact.
Use maps & globes when discussing international issues.
Investigate how human population has affected the environment.
Physical and cultural factors that characterize regions of the
United States.
The influence of geography on development of regional characteristics.
Research how

B2. Analyze information about the human and physical features of places and regions.
B3. Explain information about the human and physical features of places and regions.
C.
Understand dynamic and interactive natural forces that shape the
Earth’s environment.
Understand location terms: over, under, near, far, left, right.
Explain
“location” in terms of area within the school.
Identify and be familiar with the seasons.
Explain how schools and neighborhoods in different places are similar and different.
Identify cultural and family traditions and their connections to the environment.
Identify the changes in seasons and weather.
Explain why people settle in certain areas.
Identify geography based problems and examine the ways people have tried to solve them.
Analyze how people use geographic factors in creating settlements and have adapted to and modified the local physical environment.
Analyze how migration, trade, and cultural patterns result from interactions with the physical world.
Identify and explain why physical features affect human activity.
Identify the geographic elements involved in weather.
Identify the factors that make a region in
Alaska unique including cultural diversity, industry, agriculture, and landforms.
Describe and explain the effects of seasons and natural hazards on the physical environment.
Explain how physical environments influence human settlement in the state.
Identify reasons why people have adapted to and modified their environment, to meet basic needs.
Identify and describe the effects of the climate including the elements of oceans, currents, and wind on the environment.
Describe the water cycle and how it affects the earth’s environment including erosion.
Describe and distinguish between short and long-term physical change including plate tectonics.
Interpret and communicate geographic data to justify potential solutions to problems (i.e. natural resources, or lack thereof, transporting, environmental).
Evaluate the costs and benefits of renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy.
Identify the five themes of geography and explain why geographers use them to organize information.
Identify and explain how landforms and climate have affected population.
Identify major climate regions.
Examine the influences of latitude, longitude, and wind and ocean density and calculating distance.
Analyze issues such as ecological/environm ental concerns. the depletion of natural resources affects the world economy.
may result in conflicts.

D. Trade
D.
Communicati on
Types of
Communicati on
D. Population Choices
Past and present
Population patterns
D.
Transportati on
Modes Past and present
D.
Conflict/Coo peration
Family
Relationships
Community relationships
E. Resources
Bartering
Resource utilization
Wants and needs
Needs and wants
Producing and consuming
Innovations and inventions
Free enterprise
Scarcity
Impact and advancemen t community Function and purpose of
Innovations and inventions communitie s
Impact on goods, services and people citizenship Importance of social systems
Past and present
Alaskan trade history
Historic modes of communicati on in Alaska
Historic population trends in
Alaska
Migration
Historic modes of transportatio n in Alaska
Exploration and early colonization in Alaska
Government
US trade history
Historic modes of communicati on in the US
Historic population trends of the
US
Historic modes of transportatio n in the US
Early exploration and colonization of US
Civil war
Western expansion
Limited resources
Patterns of resource use
Alaska specific patterns of resource use
World trade history
Historic modes of communication in the world
Trends of world migration
US specific patterns of resource use
US historical perspective of industrializati on, urbanization, innovation, capitalism
Historic modes of transportation in the world
World migration
Immigration
Push/pull factors of conflict and cooperation
Nation
Formation
World history view of industrialization
, urbanization, innovation, capitalism currents on the climate of a region.

E.
Environment
Definition of environment
Characteristics of environment
Humans change environme nt
Adaptation s of/to environme nt
Consequenc es/impact of adaptations to/of environmen t
Adaptations and modifications of/to Alaskan environments
Adaptations and modifications of US environments
Diversity of world environments
Human adaptation and modification of world environments