OCG - World Geography

South Carolina Standards:  

Standard WG - 1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human characteristics of place, including the creation of regions and the ways that culture and experience influence the perception of place.

Standard WG - 2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth’s surface, including the dynamics of the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

Standard WG - 3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth’s surface.

Standard WG - 4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of

culture, the patterns of culture, and cultural change.

Standard WG - 5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the role that geography plays in economic development.

Standard WG - 6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement.

Standard WG - 7: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth’s surface.

Standard WG - 8: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how human actions modify the physical environment; how physical systems affect human systems; and how resources change in meaning, use, distribution, and importance.

 

 

Other Standards: 

 

National Geography Standards Index:

 

THEME: The World in Spacial Terms (Standard 1-3)

Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.

Standard 2: How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and

environments in a spatial context.

Standard 3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth’s surface.

THEME: Places and Regions (Standards 4-6)

Standard 4: The physical and human characteristics of places

Standard 5: That people create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity

Standard 6: How culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions

THEME: Physical Systems (Standards 7-8)

Standard 7: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth’s surface

Standard 8: The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems and biomes on Earth’s surface

THEME: Human Systems (Standards 9-13)

Standard 9: The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth’s surface

Standard 10: The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth’s cultural mosaics

Standard 11: The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth’s surface

Standard 12: The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement

Standard 13: How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth’s surface

THEME: Environment and Society (Standards 14-16)

Standard 14: How human actions modify the physical environment

Standard 15: How physical systems affect human systems

Standard 16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources

THEME: The Uses of Geography (Standards 17-18)

Standard 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past

Standard 18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.