We aim to help students assume their role as responsible citizens in their community.

 

Enduring Understandings

• Geography influences a community’s culture and development
• Nations and regions around the world can be analyzed spatially using maps, images, and models
• Geography influences the crops and natural resources grown and found in regions around the world.
• Knowledge of the past helps one understand the present and make decisions about the future.
• Communities change over time politically, socially, and technologically.
• Over time people have adapted to and impacted their environment.
• Individuals and groups within a community can impact their social and political systems with new inventions, ideas, and art forms.
• When cultures meet there are exchanges, which have both positive and negative consequences.
• Cultures form their own religions, holidays, celebrations, and traditions.
• Governments are in charge of addressing the basic needs of the people in a society.
• People have different jobs and responsibilities in their community.