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Advanced: Students will be able to create and evaluate management plans for how to
navigate with various natural disasters and conditions in the world with their
understanding of the significant forces that influence the physical environment
Proficient: Students will describe the significant forces that influence the physical
environment, such as plate tectonics, erosion, climate, and natural disasters, and explain
how the effects of physical processes vary across regions of the world through written
response or discussion with peers
Emerging: Students can classify some of the significant forces that influence the
environment and provide a basic, but limited, explanation of their effects
Beginning: Students can identify the significant forces that influence the environment with
assistance from a teacher/peer
Advanced: Students can explain current demographic trends and and make suggestions
for the future, both globally and locally (sustainability, affordable housing, environment,
economics) utilizing geographic tools
Proficient: Students will evaluate the impact of population distribution patterns at various
scales by analyzing and comparing demographic characteristics such as gender, age,
ethnicity, and population density using maps, population pyramids, and other geographic
data by citing specific evidence in the pyramids
Emerging: Students can explain demographic trends based on the shapes of population
pyramids
Beginning: Students can list demographic trends utilizing population pyramids with the
assistance of a teacher or peers
WG Standard 2.2/3: (Migration)
Students will explain push and pull factors causing voluntary and involuntary
migration and the consequences created by the movement of people. (ex. Mass
urbanization, immigration, and the movement of refugees.)
Advanced: Students will propose policy solutions based on current examples of refugees,
internally displaced persons (IDP), and other migrants across the world. Students will
make predictions for how migration might impact the host and exodus regions (UN
standards, countries’ obligations to protect their own sovereignty, etc.)
Proficient: Students will explain push and pull factors causing voluntary and involuntary
migration and the consequences created by the movement of people. (ex. Mass
urbanization, immigration, and the movement of refugees.)
Emerging: Students will be able to categorize push and pull factors for differing types of
migration across the world without much assistance
Beginning: Students will identify push and pull factors for differing types of migration
across the world with assistance from a teacher/peer
Advanced: Students can apply all 7 Elements of Culture to their own culture in an
exploration of at least one other culture outside of the US through a comparison on
perspectives, sense of place, and value placed upon people and places
Proficient: Students understand the 7 Elements of Culture and their impacts on global
patterns and relations by applying them to their own culture’s sense of place, perspective
and value placed on people and places
Emerging: Students can categorize all 7 Elements of Culture and describe how they
connect to various perspectives sense of place and value in their own culture
Beginning: Students can list all 7 Elements of Culture with assistance and identify differing
perspectives, sense of place, and value on people and places in various cultures
Advanced: Students will investigate how belief and ethnicity drive global events (for good
and ill) through an extended research project.
Proficient: Students will explain how the basic tenets of world religions affect the daily
lives of people. Students will be exposed to religion, language, ethnicity and other cultural
characteristics.
Emerging: Students will compare the basic tenets of world religions with a venn diagram
or other comparison tools
Beginning: Students will list the tenets of the five major world religions (Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism)
Advanced: Students will write a thesis on the cultural sustainability of folk cultures and
how they interact with diffusion and globalization while emphasizing the causes, methods,
and effects of diffusion and the opportunities and challenges of globalization
Proficient: Students will explain the causes, methods, and effects for the diffusion and
distribution of cultural characteristics among different places and regions. Students will
cite examples of how globalization creates challenges and opportunities for different
cultures.
Emerging: Students are able to place examples of diffusion into proper categories.
Students know the difference between local and global cultural characteristics.
Beginning: Students are able to identify the 4 methods of cultural diffusion. Students can
define globalization.