Colorado Model
Content Standards
Geography
1. Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools
to locate and derive information about people, place, and environments.
2. Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this
knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
3. Students understand how physical processed shape Earth's surface patterns and
systems.
4. Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
5. Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical
systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
6. Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand
the past and present and to plan for the future.
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History
1. Students understand
the chronological organization of history and know how to organize events and
people into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships.
2. Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
3. Students understand that societies are diverse and have changed over time.
4. Students understand how science, technology, and economic activity have developed,
changed, and affected societies throughout history.
5. Students understand political institutions and theories that have developed
and changed over time.
6. Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces
throughout history.
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