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| NY State Standards
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Grade
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Learning Standard
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Key Idea
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Performance Indicator
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| Social Studies |
Elementary |
Standard 1 - History of the United
States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to
demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras,
themes, developments, and turning points in the history
of the United States. |
The study of New York State and United
States history requires an analysis of the development
of American culture, its diversity and multicultural
context, and the ways people are unified by many values,
practices, and traditions. |
Students know the roots of American
culture, its development from many different traditions,
and the ways many people from a variety of groups and
backgrounds played a role in creating it. |
| Social Studies |
Elementary |
Standard 3 - Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to
demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the
interdependent world in which we live—local, national,
and global—including the distribution of people,
places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
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Geography can be divided into six
essential elements which can be used to analyze
important historic, geographic, economic, and
environmental questions and issues. These six elements
include: the world in spatial terms, places and regions,
physical settings (inculding natural resources) and,
human systems, environment and society, and the use of
geography. (Adapted from The National Geography
Standards, 1994: Geography for Life). |
Students identify and compare the
physical, human, and cultural characteristics of
different regions and people (Adapted from National
Geography Standards, 1994). |
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