Nebraska

Students will develop and apply spatial perspective and geographic skills to make informed decisions regarding issues and current events at local, state, national and international levels.

• The World in Spatial Terms

  • SS 2.3.1 Students will explore where (spatial) and why people, places and environments are organized locally.

    • SS 2.3.1.a Identify the globe as a model of Earth

    • SS 2.3.1.b Identify and describe locations in the neighborhood (e.g., home, the park, friend's house, fire station, grocery store)

    • SS 2.3.1.c Identify map elements (i.e., title, scale, symbols, legend, and cardinal directions)

      • Read a map: cardinal directions (2-A.3)

    • SS 2.3.1.d Locate community, Nebraska, and the United States on maps and globes

    • SS 2.3.1.e Analyze why things are located where they are (e.g., "Why are stores on a main street?")

    • SS 2.3.1.f Distinguish between continents/islands, oceans/seas, countries/continents, and cities/states

• Places and Regions

  • SS 2.3.2 Students will identify places and regions.

    • SS 2.3.2.a Identify and differentiate between physical and human features of neighborhood and community (e.g., vegetation, housing)

      • Identify urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-A.10)
      • Compare urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-A.11)

    • SS 2.3.2.b Describe local places and regions with other places and regions (e.g., prairie, forest, farm land, ranch land, local community)

    • SS 2.3.2.c Explain how places and regions change over time

• Physical Systems

  • SS 2.3.3 Students will identify natural processes in their physical world.

    • SS 2.3.3.a Identify basic components of Earth's physical processes (e.g., landforms, water, climate and weather)

    • SS 2.3.3.b Identify the relationship between the Earth and the Sun (e.g., day/night, length of day, seasons)

• Human Systems

  • SS 2.3.4 Students will identify the characteristics of culture.

    • SS 2.3.4.a Identify patterns of cultural traits (e.g., language, religion, food)

      • Día de los Muertos (2-E.1)
      • Hanukkah (2-E.3)
      • Rosh Hashanah (2-E.4)
      • Kwanzaa (2-E.5)
      • Christmas (2-E.6)
      • Easter (2-E.7)
      • Lunar New Year (2-E.8)
      • Ramadan (2-E.9)
      • Holi (2-E.10)

    • SS 2.3.4.b Identify patterns of land use (e.g., agricultural, residential, industrial, commercial, educational, recreational)

• Human/Environment Interaction

  • SS 2.3.5 Students will identify the relationship between humans and the physical environment.

    • SS 2.3.5.a Describe how seasonal weather patterns, natural hazards, and natural resources affect human activities

    • SS 2.3.5.b Identify Earth's natural resources (e.g., minerals, air, land, water, soil)

      • Natural resources (2-F.1)

    • SS 2.3.5.c Identify how humans and the physical environment interact (e.g., choice of building materials, variations in agricultural practices, land use modifications, fish, forestry, and wildlife management)

      • John Deere (2-B.5)
      • George Washington Carver (2-B.13)

• Application of Geography to Issues and Events

  • SS 2.3.6 Students will use geographic skills to make connections.

    • SS 2.3.6.a Identify how you might apply geographic knowledge or techniques to solve a problem (e.g., use global positioning system (GPS) navigation for shortest route to school; map destinations for family vacation to determine the best order to visit)