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Theme III: People, Places, and Environment

• Standard G - The student describes how people create places that reflect cultural values and ideals as they build neighborhoods, parks, shopping centers, and the like.
• Standard H - The student examines, interprets, and analyzes physical and cultural patterns and their interactions, such as land use, settlement patterns, cultural transmission of customs and ideas, and ecosystem changes.
• Standard K - The student proposes, compares, and evaluates alternative uses of land and resources in communities, regions, nations, and the world.

Theme V: Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

• Standard G - The student applies knowledge of how groups and institutions work to meet individual needs and promote the common good.

Theme VIII: Science, Technology, and Society

• Standard B - The student shows through specific examples how science and technology have changed people's perceptions of the social and natural world, such as in their relationships to the land, animal life, family life, and economic needs, wants and security.

Theme X: Civic Ideals, and Practices

• Standard F - The student identifies and explains the roles of formal and informal political actors in influencing and shaping public policy and decision-making.
• Standard J - The student examines strategies designed to strengthen the "common good," which consider a range of options for citizen action.