Illinois Social Studies Standards (Geography)

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📌 Geography 16 standards

SS.9-12.G.1

Geographic Representations

Use maps (created using geospatial and related technologies, if possible), satellite images, and photographs to display and explain the spatial patterns of physical, cultural, political, economic, and environmental characteristics.

SS.9-12.G.2

Geographic Representations

Explain how mapping is used to claim political sovereignty and to obscure disagreements over the nature of space, human relationship with place, and power to determine how humans interact with landscapes, animals, and plants.

SS.9-12.G.3

Geographic Representations

Use self-collected or pre-existing data sets to generate spatial patterns at multiple scales that can be used to conduct analysis or to take civic action.

SS.9-12.G.4

Human-Environment Interaction

Analyze data and trends at various scales to address inequalities in race, ethnicity, and gender across time and space.

SS.9-12.G.5

Human-Environment Interaction

Analyze different ways of representing geographic information in order to compare cartographers' perspectives, biases, and goals.

SS.9-12.G.6

Human-Environment Interaction

Analyze and explain how humans affect and interact with the environment and vice versa.

SS.9-12.G.7

Human-Environment Interaction

Evaluate how political and economic decisions have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.

SS.9-12.G.8

Human-Environment Interaction

Analyze how human societies plan for and respond to the consequences of human-made and naturally occurring catastrophes and how these events affect trade, politics, and migration.

SS.9-12.G.9

Human-Environment Interaction

Explain how landscape; use of land and resources; and means of interacting with land, animals, and plants each reflect cultural beliefs and identities.

SS.9-12.G.10

Human Population

Analyze how historical events and the diffusion of ideas, technologies, and cultural practices have influenced migration patterns and the distribution of the human population.

SS.9-12.G.11

Human Population

Evaluate how economic activities and political decisions impact spatial patterns at various scales.

SS.9-12.G.12

Human Population

Evaluate how short- and long-term climate variability affects human migration and settlement patterns, use of land and resources, and relationship with the land.

SS.9-12.G.13

Global Interconnections

Describe and explain the characteristics that constitute culture.

SS.9-12.G.14

Global Interconnections

Explain how a person's identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, spirituality/religion, ability status, socioeconomic group) shapes and is shaped by worldview.

SS.9-12.G.15

Global Interconnections

Explain how characteristics of culture and measures of development shape an individual's worldview.

SS.9-12.G.16

Global Interconnections

Explain how globalization affects the cultural, political, economic, and environmental characteristics of a place or region.