Geography-6th Grade

Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States. Understand world geography and the effects of geography and religion on society with an emphasis on the United States.

Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth. Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features of God’s creation. 

Analyze and explain characteristics and interactions of the Earth’s physical systems. Analyze and explain the moral implications of our interactions with the Earth’s physical systems.

Understand relationships between geographic factors and society. Understand relationships between geographic factors, society and the Church.

Understand the historical significance of geography. Understand the historical significance of geography and the Church.

Demonstrate understanding of the location of various physical and human features in Illinois, the United States, and/or the world.

Locate on a map some religious sites both past and present.

Interpret aerial photographs of satellite produced images to locate and identify physical and human features (e.g., mountain ranges, rivers, vegetation regions, cities, dams, reservoirs).

Identify, using only a mental map, the countries through which a person would pass as they travel along a straight-line route between two major cities (e.g., Paris to Moscow, Cairo to Nairobi).

Construct a choropleth map that shows the spatial distribution of the data (e.g., corn production in Illinois).

Explain how major countries in the world are connected and interrelate (e.g., trade, political alliances, humanitarian concerns, religions).

Understand how parallels of latitude can be used to determine north-south direction and distance, and how meridians of longitude can be used to determine east-west direction and distance on a map or globe.

Identify the causes and nature of changes in environmental stress zones (e.g., the rain forests of Brazil, Taiga/Boreal Forrest, North Slope of Alaska).

Describe the physical environment of any region and the physical processes that act on it (e.g., weather, tectonic forces, wave action, freezing and thawing, gravity, soil building processes).

Describe ecosystems from local to global scales.

Explain our moral obligation to protect the ecosystems.

Explain how and why ecosystems differ from place to place as a consequence of differences in soils, climates, and human and natural disturbances.

Compare the natural hazards that occur in other countries to determine their intensity and effect.

Explain the concentrations of urban settlement centers with high population density using maps.

Evaluate effects of technological change on transportation, communications, and resource use.

Identify ways that human behavior could be changed to solve specific environmental problems (e.g., outline a plan to reduce litter, stream pollution).

Identify and describe moral obligations to help aide others afflicted by disasters (e.g., tornadoes, hurricanes, AIDS, bird flu, etc.).

Explain how technological developments have influenced the migration of people.

Analyze selected historical and religious events to determine how they influenced the migration of people throughout the world.

Hypothesize about relationships between physical features and the occurrence of human activities of a particular place and how these activities changed over the years.

Analyze how physical features have both posed barriers and provided avenues to settlement.

Analyze how physical features have influenced religious ideas.