Geography

Students research and report on where people and places are located and why, utilizing multiple geographic representations and tools (maps, globes, geospatial technologies).

Students draw conclusions about changes in the relationship between people, places, and environments

Students analyze how people create, learn, share, and adapt to culture.

Students synthesize the sociocultural interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions to investigate structures of power and their impacts on authority and governance.

Students apply concepts to explain how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

Connect the ways in which Earth’s dynamic and interactive physical processes affect the Pacific and other regions of the world, and report the information orally and in writing

Analyze how places and regions are interconnected and how their social, political, cultural, and economic factors are shaped by geological events and developments

Investigate how culture changes and is changing, particularly in American Samoa and the Pacific islands/Oceania

Research the impact of places and locations of socioeconomic development within the Pacific region

Analyze how scarcity of productive resources affects supply and demand and economic choices