Introductory Unit: MLO & Indicators

MARYLAND LEARNING OUTCOMES & INDICATORS

Unit: Using Geography to Investigate the World

Geography:

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the geographic concepts and processes as needed to examine the role of culture, technology and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities.

19. Locate places, cultural features, and natural features by interpreting and constructing maps using directions, legends, grid systems, boundary lines, scale and political units.
21. Evaluate the way humans modify their physical setting to meet economic needs, and the resulting changes in their quality of life.
23. Analyze the influence of transportation and communication on the movement of people, goods, and ideas from place to place.
24. Compare regions on a state, national and global basis.

Peoples of the Nation and World:
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the history, diversity, and commonality of the peoples of the nation and world, the reality of human interdependence, the need for global cooperation, and a multicultural perspective.

15. Perceive that human experiences, in earlier times and other places, may be applicable to solving contemporary problems.
17. Provide examples of technologies, institutions, languages and beliefs which link the different peoples of the world.

Social Studies Skills & Processes:

Students will demonstrate an ability -- individually and as part of a group -- to gather information, think critically and solve problems as needed to facilitate responsible decision-making, to understand complex ideas, and to generate new ideas.
Students will demonstrate an ability to obtain, interpret, evaluate, organize and use information from observing, investigating, listening and reading.
Students will demonstrate an ability to obtain, interpret, evaluate, organize and use print and non-print sources of information such as maps, charts, globes, graphs and tables.

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