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Social Studies

Sub Categories or Standards:
  • Understand and apply the basic tools of historical research, including chronology and how to collect, interpret, and employ information from historical materials. Place key events on a timeline and apply chronological terms correctly, including B.C.E. (B.C.), C.E. (A.D.), decade, century, and generation.
  • Describe the legacy and cultures of prehistoric American Indians in Arizona, including the impact of, and adaptations to geography, with emphasis on: the distinctive cultures of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon, including where they lived, their agriculture, housing, decorative arts, and trade networks.
  • Describe the legacy and cultures of prehistoric American Indians in Arizona, including the impact of, and adaptations to geography, with emphasis on: how prehistoric cultures adapted to, and altered, their environment, including irrigation canals and housing.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the physical and human features that define places and regions in Arizona, including the use of geographic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data, with emphasis on: identifying Arizona as part of the Southwestern region of the United States.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the physical and human features that define places and regions in Arizona, including the use of geographic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data, with emphasis on: explaining and using map titles, symbols, scale, cardinal and intermediate directions, and elevations on maps of Arizona.
  • Describe the impact of interactions between people and the natural environment on the development of places and regions in Arizona, including how people have adapted to and modified the environment, with emphasis on: the reasons for migration to, and the settlement and growth of, Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson, Flagstaff, Prescott and Yuma, including mining, ranching, agriculture, and tourism.
  • Describe the impact of interactions between people and the natural environment on the development of places and regions in Arizona, including how people have adapted to and modified the environment, with emphasis on how people have depended on the physical environment and its natural resources to satisfy their basic needs, including the consequences of Arizonans' adaptation to, and modification of, the natural environment.
  • Use geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives to explain past, present, and future issues, with emphasis on: how places and environments influence events and conditions in the past.
  • Use geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives to explain past, present, and future issues, with emphasis on: how geography is used to improve quality of life, including urban growth and environmental planning.
  • Describe how people respond to positive and negative incentives, with emphasis on: how profits provide incentives to sellers.
  • Describe how people respond to positive and negative incentives, with emphasis on: how market prices provide incentives to buyers and sellers.