Alabama

Map skills

• 1 Locate the prime meridian, equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, International Date Line, and lines of latitude and longitude on maps and globes.

  • Identify lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.2)
  • Use lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.3)

  • Using cardinal and intermediate directions to locate on a map or globe an area in Alabama or the world

    • Read a map: cardinal directions (3-A.3)

  • Using coordinates to locate points on a grid

    • Read a letter-number grid (3-A.1)
    • Use a letter-number grid (3-A.2)

  • Determining distance between places on a map using a scale

  • Locating physical and cultural regions using labels, symbols, and legends on an Alabama or world map

  • Describing the use of geospatial technologies

  • Interpreting information on thematic maps

  • Using vocabulary associated with maps and globes, including megalopolis, landlocked, border, and elevation

• 2 Locate the continents on a map or globe.

  • Using vocabulary associated with geographical features of Earth, including hill, plateau, valley, peninsula, island, isthmus, ice cap, and glacier

    • Introduction to Earth's land features (3-A.7)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (3-A.8)

  • Locating major mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, and lakes throughout the world

    • Identify oceans and continents (3-A.4)
    • Select oceans and continents (3-A.5)
    • Name oceans and continents (3-A.6)

Humans and the environment

• 3 Describe ways the environment is affected by humans in Alabama and the world.

  • Using vocabulary associated with human influence on the environment, including irrigation, aeration, urbanization, reforestation, erosion, and migration

• 4 Relate population dispersion to geographic, economic, and historic changes in Alabama and the world.

  • Identifying human and physical criteria used to define regions and boundaries

    • Identify urban, suburban, and rural areas (3-A.10)
    • Compare urban, suburban, and rural areas (3-A.11)

Resources and trade

• 5 Compare trading patterns between countries and regions.

  • Differentiating between producers and consumers

    • Producers and consumers (3-H.4)

  • Differentiating between imports and exports

• 6 Identify conflicts within and between geographic areas involving use of land, economic competition for scarce resources, opposing political views, boundary disputes, and cultural differences.

  • Identifying examples of cooperation among governmental agencies within and between different geographic areas

  • Locating areas of political conflict on maps and globes

  • Explaining the role of the United Nations (UN) and the United States in resolving conflict within and between geographic areas

• 7 Describe the relationship between locations of resources and patterns of population distribution.

  • Locating major natural resources and deposits throughout the world on topographical maps

    • Natural resources (3-H.2)

  • Comparing present-day mechanization of labor with the historical use of human labor for harvesting natural resources

  • Explaining the geographic impact of using petroleum, coal, nuclear power, and solar power as major energy sources in the twenty-first century

Regional geography

• 8 Identify geographic links of land regions, river systems, and interstate highways between Alabama and other states.

  • Locating the five geographic regions of Alabama

  • Locating state and national parks on a map or globe

• 9 Identify ways to prepare for natural disasters.

Civics and government

• 10 Recognize functions of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

  • Describing the process by which a bill becomes law

    • Federal government (3-E.4)

  • Explaining the relationship between the federal government and state governments, including the three branches of government

    • State government (3-E.3)
    • Federal government (3-E.4)
    • Checks and balances (3-E.7)

  • Defining governmental systems, including democracy, monarchy, and dictatorship

    • Presidential elections (3-E.8)

• 11 Interpret various primary sources for reconstructing the past, including documents, letters, diaries, maps, and photographs.

  • John Deere (3-D.5)
  • Harriet Tubman (3-D.9)
  • Sitting Bull (3-D.10)
  • Theodore Roosevelt (3-D.12)
  • Amelia Earhart (3-D.14)
  • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)

  • Comparing maps of the past to maps of the present

• 12 Explain the significance of representations of American values and beliefs, including the Statue of Liberty, the statue of Lady Justice, the United States flag, and the national anthem.

  • Identify American symbols (3-F.1)
  • Identify American landmarks and monuments: part I (3-F.2)
  • Identify American landmarks and monuments: part II (3-F.3)
  • The American flag (3-F.4)
  • The White House (3-F.5)
  • The Washington Monument (3-F.6)
  • The Lincoln Memorial (3-F.7)
  • The Statue of Liberty (3-F.8)
  • Mount Rushmore (3-F.11)

History

• 13 Describe prehistoric and historic American Indian cultures, governments, and economics in Alabama.

  • Identifying roles of archaeologists and paleontologists