Common Core Social Studies Pacing Guide 4th Grade STRAND K-4 Geography Content Standard II: Students understand how physical, natural, K-4 Benchmark II-C: Be familiar with aspects of human behavior and Standard 2-C and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in made and natural environments in order to recognize their impact on the past which people live, and how societies interact with one another and and present their environments. Grade 4: Quarter 1: Quarter 2: Quarter 3: Quarter 4: Explain how geographic factors 1. Explain how geographic have influenced people, including factors have influenced settlement patterns and population people, including distribution in New Mexico past settlement patterns and and present. population distribution in New Mexico past and Describe how environments, both present. natural and man-made, have 2. Describe how influenced people and events over environments, both natural time, and describe how places and man-made, have change. influenced people and events over time, and Understand how visual data (e.g., describe how places maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, change. charts) organizes and presents 3. Understand how visual geographic information. data (e.g., maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, charts) organizes and presents geographic information.
Common Core Social Studies Pacing Guide 4th Grade STRAND K-4 Geography Content Standard II: Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments. K-4 Benchmark II-C: Be familiar with aspects of human behavior and and natural environments in order to recognize their impact on the past and present Standard 2-C Grade 4: 1. Explain how geographic factors have influenced people, including settlement patterns and population distribution in New Mexico past and present. 2. Describe how environments, both natural and man-made, have influenced people and events over time, and describe how places change. 3. Understand how visual data (e.g., maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, charts) organizes and presents geographic information. Quarter 1: Explain how geographic factors have influenced people, including settlement patterns and population distribution in New Mexico past and present. Describe how environments, both natural and man-made, have influenced people and events over time, and describe how places change. Understand how visual data (e.g., maps, graphs, diagrams, tables, charts) organizes and presents geographic information. Quarter 2: Quarter 3: Quarter 4: made
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