Grade 7 Civics/Government
K-12.C.1 Students will explain, compare and contrast, and analyze the historical principles and philosophical purposes and various forms of governments.
7.C.1.1 Identify and describe different forms of government used throughout the world
Grade 7 Geography
K-12.G.1 Students will apply geospatial resources, including data sources and geographic tools to generate, interpret, and analyze information.
7.G.1.1 Gather information, analyze data and demonstrate navigation with a map
7.G.1.2 Construct maps or other geographic representations and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and/or physical characteristics
K-12.G.2 Students will understand the nature and importance of the Five Themes of Geography; location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
7.G.2.1 Create an argument for the importance of the study of Geography
.G.2.2 Recognize and apply the Five Themes of Geography
7.G.2.3 Analyze political and economic systems
K-12.G.3 Students will recognize the characteristics of the processes that shape places and regions.
7.G.3.1 Identify and differentiate between the human and/or physical characteristics that create a region
7.G.3.2 Describe how cultural patterns, including but not limited to economic and political decisions, influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places
7.G.3.3 Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures
K-12.G.4 Students will identify Earth’s physical systems and the ways in which they are dynamic and interactive.
7.G.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of the processes that result in the natural landscape
7.G.4.2 Explain how and why different cultures interact with earth’s physical systems in various ways
28 K-12.G.5 Students will recognize and explain the role population and culture play in creating diversity within the world’s places and regions. 7.G.5.1 Analyze basic components of culture, including how and why they differ spatially
7.G.5.2 Identify population distribution and characteristics of human populations
7.G.5.3 Explain how changes in land use affect population distribution patterns
K-12.G.6 Students will understand the ways in which humans culturally adapt to, use, and modify the natural environment and its various elements.
7.G.6.1 Clarify how human groups adapt to, and depend upon, the natural environment
7.G.6.2 Recognize and explain how cultures and cultural landscapes change
K-12.G.7 Students will be applying geographic knowledge to understand the diversity of Earth’s physical and human conditions, past, present, and future.
7.G.7.1 Evaluate how the relationship between physical and cultural characteristics of a place impacts economic activity
7.G.7.2 Articulate how changes in technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices
7.G.7.3 Draw conclusions on how past human and/or physical conditions influence present and/or future conditions
Grade 7 Economics
K-12.E.3 Students will analyze the ways government can impact the market.
7.E.3.1 Describe the relationship between government and economic systems in different countries
K-12.E.4 Students will explain how different economic systems coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
7.E.4.1 Describe how economic activity affects standard of living
7.E.4.2 Describe how technology affects the economic development of places and regions
7.E.4.3 Describe the role of trade barriers and agreements in the global economy
7.E.4.4 Explain how the availability of resources provides for or challenges human activities
K-12.C.1 Students will explain, compare and contrast, and analyze the historical principles and philosophical purposes and various forms of governments.
7.C.1.1 Identify and describe different forms of government used throughout the world
Grade 7 Geography
K-12.G.1 Students will apply geospatial resources, including data sources and geographic tools to generate, interpret, and analyze information.
7.G.1.1 Gather information, analyze data and demonstrate navigation with a map
7.G.1.2 Construct maps or other geographic representations and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and/or physical characteristics
K-12.G.2 Students will understand the nature and importance of the Five Themes of Geography; location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
7.G.2.1 Create an argument for the importance of the study of Geography
.G.2.2 Recognize and apply the Five Themes of Geography
7.G.2.3 Analyze political and economic systems
K-12.G.3 Students will recognize the characteristics of the processes that shape places and regions.
7.G.3.1 Identify and differentiate between the human and/or physical characteristics that create a region
7.G.3.2 Describe how cultural patterns, including but not limited to economic and political decisions, influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places
7.G.3.3 Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures
K-12.G.4 Students will identify Earth’s physical systems and the ways in which they are dynamic and interactive.
7.G.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of the processes that result in the natural landscape
7.G.4.2 Explain how and why different cultures interact with earth’s physical systems in various ways
28 K-12.G.5 Students will recognize and explain the role population and culture play in creating diversity within the world’s places and regions. 7.G.5.1 Analyze basic components of culture, including how and why they differ spatially
7.G.5.2 Identify population distribution and characteristics of human populations
7.G.5.3 Explain how changes in land use affect population distribution patterns
K-12.G.6 Students will understand the ways in which humans culturally adapt to, use, and modify the natural environment and its various elements.
7.G.6.1 Clarify how human groups adapt to, and depend upon, the natural environment
7.G.6.2 Recognize and explain how cultures and cultural landscapes change
K-12.G.7 Students will be applying geographic knowledge to understand the diversity of Earth’s physical and human conditions, past, present, and future.
7.G.7.1 Evaluate how the relationship between physical and cultural characteristics of a place impacts economic activity
7.G.7.2 Articulate how changes in technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices
7.G.7.3 Draw conclusions on how past human and/or physical conditions influence present and/or future conditions
Grade 7 Economics
K-12.E.3 Students will analyze the ways government can impact the market.
7.E.3.1 Describe the relationship between government and economic systems in different countries
K-12.E.4 Students will explain how different economic systems coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
7.E.4.1 Describe how economic activity affects standard of living
7.E.4.2 Describe how technology affects the economic development of places and regions
7.E.4.3 Describe the role of trade barriers and agreements in the global economy
7.E.4.4 Explain how the availability of resources provides for or challenges human activities