National Content Area Standards

• Social Studies – Geography
  • Geography Standard 14 (Grades 9-12): How human actions modify the physical environment.
    • Objective 1: Human modifications of the physical environment can have significant global impacts.
    • Objective 2: The use of technology can have both intended and unintended impacts on the physical environment that may be positive or negative.
    • Objective 3: People can either mitigate and/or adapt to the consequences of human modifications of the physical environment.
  • Geography Standard 15 (Grades 9-12): How physical systems affect human systems.
    • Objective 1: Depending on the choice of human activities, the characteristics of the physical environment can be viewed as both opportunities and constraints.
    • Objective 2: Humans perceive and react to environmental hazards in different ways.
    • Objective 3: Societies use a variety of strategies to adapt to changes in the physical environment.
  • Geography Standard 16 (Grades 9-12): The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
    • Objective 1: The meaning and use of resources change over time.
    • Objective 3: Policies and programs that promote the sustainable use and management of resources impact people and the environment.
  • Geography Standard 17 (Grades 9-12): How to apply geography to interpret the past.
    • Objective 1: Geographic contexts (the human and physical characteristics of places and environments) can explain the connections between sequences of historical events.
    • Objective 2: The causes and processes of change in the geographic characteristics and spatial organization of places, regions, and environments over time.
• Social Studies – History
  • History Era 8 Standard 1A (Grades 9-12): The causes of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
    • Objective 3: Evaluate the causes of the Great Depression.
  • History Era 8 Standard 1B (Grades 9-12): American life changed during the 1930s.
    • Objective 1: Explain the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl on American farm owners, tenants, and sharecroppers.
  • History Era 8 Standard 2A (Grades 9-12): The New Deal and the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    • Objective 6: Explain renewed efforts to protect the environment during the Great Depression and evaluate their success in places such as the Dust Bowl and the Tennessee Valley.
    • Objective 3: Contrast the first and second New Deals and evaluate the success and failures of the relief, recovery, and reform measures associated with each.
  • NCSS 2 (Grades 9-12): Time, Continuity, and Change
    • Objective 6: Different interpretations of the influences of social, geographic, economic, and cultural factors on the history of local areas, states, nations, and the world.
    • Objective 5: The impact across time and place of key historical forces, such as nationalism, imperialism, globalization, leadership, revolution, wars, concepts of rights and responsibilities, and religion.
    • Objective 7: The contributions of philosophies, ideologies, individuals, institutions, and key events and turning points in shaping history.
    • Objective 8: The importance of knowledge of the past to an understanding of the present and to informed decision-making about the future.
  • NCSS 8 (Grades 9-12): Science, Technology, and Society
    • Objective 2: Science and technology have had both positive and negative impacts upon individuals, societies, and the environment in the past and present.
    • Objective 4: Consequences of science and technology for individuals and societies.
    • Objective 5: Decisions regarding the uses and consequences of science and technology are often complex because of the need to choose between or reconcile different viewpoints.
    • Objective 11: That achievements in science and technology are increasing at a rapid pace and can have both planned and unanticipated consequences.
  • NCSS 3 (Grades 9-12): People, Places, and Environments
    • Objective 2: Concepts such as: location, physical and human characteristics of national and global regions in the past and present, and the interactions of humans with the environment.
    • Objective 3: Consequences of changes in regional and global physical systems, such as seasons, climate, and weather, and the water cycle.
    • Objective 4: The causes and impact of resource management, as reflected in land use, settlement patterns, and ecosystem changes.
    • Objective 6: The social and economic effects of environmental changes and crises resulting from phenomena such as floods, storms, and drought.
    • Objective 7: Factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict among peoples of the nation and world, including language, religion, and political beliefs.
    • Objective 8: The use of a variety of maps, globes, graphic representations, and geospatial technologies to help investigate spatial relations, resources and population density and distribution, and changes in the phenomena over time.