Describing the use, misuse, and meaning of different media materials, including photographs, artwork, and film clips
Critiquing viewpoints presented in editorial writing and political cartoons, including the use of symbols that represent viewpoints
Describing the role of intentional and unintentional bias and flawed samplings
Identify strategies that facilitate public discussion on societal issues, including debating various positions, using a deliberative process, blogging, and presenting public forums.
Organize a service-learning project, including research and implementation, that addresses an identified community or global issue having an impact on the quality of life of individuals and groups.
Human Geography
Describe spatial patterns of world populations to discern major clusters of population density and reasons for these patterns.
Examples: East Asia, India
Identify world migration patterns caused by displacement issues.
Example: African refugees relocating from the Republic of Sierra Leone to Scandinavia
Explaining how Southeast Asian ethnic minorities, including Hmong, Lhasa, and Akha, adapt to life in the United States
Tracing the migration of ethnic minorities in Kunming to urban cities in China
Explaining how the displacement of American Indians to reservations affected many areas of the United States, including Alabama (Alabama)
Identify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth’s cultural mosaics.
Explaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology
Describe elements of the landscape as a mirror of culture.
Explaining how landscapes reflect cultural traits and preferences
Distinguishing various types of architecture, including rural, urban, and religious structures
Examples: religious land uses, advertisements for ethnic restaurants
Compare the geographic distribution of linguistic features around the world.
Identifying the world’s most widely spoken languages
Describing how linguistic diversity creates cultural conflict
Explain how religion influences cultures around the globe.
Identifying major religions, their source areas, and spatial expansion
Interpreting different ceremonies based on religious traditions, including marriages, funerals, and coming-of-age
Describing how religion influences political views around the world
Describe patterns of settlement in different regions of the world.
Examples: linear, grid, cluster, urban sprawl
Analyze the interaction of urban places for their impact on surrounding regions.
Describing urban hinterlands
Explaining dimensions of urban sprawl
Explain how economic interdependence and globalization impact many countries and their populations.
Tracing the flow of commodities from one region to another
Comparing advantages and disadvantages of global trade agreements
Recognize how human-environmental interaction affects culture in today’s society.
Examples: population growth in the Galapagos Islands damaging the environment of endemic plant and animal species, deforestation in the Pantanal affecting the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, green technologies affecting humans and the environment
Interpret human geography as it relates to gender.
Contrasting roles of men and women around the world
Describing ways the diffusion of ideas affects gender roles within societies
Example: effects of Grameen Bank loans
Distinguish among cultural health patterns around the world.
Example: exercise patterns and mortality rates in Asia, the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia
