• Know the definition of culture and civilization

• Know how and why cultures change

• Distinguish how people in world communities use legends, folktales, oral histories, biographies, autobiographies, autobiographies, and historical narratives to transmit values, ideas, beliefs, and traditions

• Communicate the accomplishments, contributions, values, beliefs, and traditions of various world cultures and civilizations

• Know how people in world communities celebrate their accomplishments, achievements, and contributions

• Understand that people in world communities may have different interpretations and perspectives about important issues and historic events

• Use the terms social, political, economic, and cultural to describe various human activities or practices

• Understand that different events, people, problems, an ideas make up world communities

      World Communities

• Know that people of similar and different cultural groups often live together in world communities

• Distinguish the social, political, economic, and cultural similarities and differences of world communities

• Understand that people in world communities exchange elements of their cultures

• Know that world communities change over time

• Use timelines to display important events and era of the near and distant past

• Measure calendar time in terms of years, decades, centuries, and millennia, using BC and AD as reference points

• Distinguish different events, people, problems and ideas that make up world communities from different periods

• Understand that all people in world communities need to learn and they learn in different ways

• Know that families in world communities differ from place to place

• Know that beliefs, customs and traditions in world communities are learned from others and may differ from place to place

• Know that historic events can be viewed through those who were there, as shown in their art, writings, music, and artifacts

• Use primary documents (letters, diaries, news reports) to understand people who lived during a particular historic time period and witnessed important events and developments

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Location of World Communities

• Use maps and globes (latitude and longitude) to locate world communities

• Use directions, location, distance, and scale to describe the spatial relationships of world communities

• Know how to locate world communities in relation to each other and to principal parallels and meridians

• Know how to locate Earth's continents and oceans in relation to each other and to principal parallels and meridians

• Use maps, charts, tables, graphs and other visual displays to communicate spatial relationships, locations and other geographic information

• Use geographic representations such as aerial photographs and satellite-produced images to locate world communities

• Know that regions represent areas of the Earth's surface with unifying geographic characteristics

People and their Physical Environments

• Distinguish the physical, human, and cultural characteristics of different regions and people throughout the world

• Understand that factors that influence human settlements differ in world communities

• Know that human needs and wants differ from place to place

• Understand that interactions between economic activities and geographic factors differ in world communities

• Know where people settle and live and why

• Know that people living in world communities depend on and modify their physical environments in different ways

• Know how lifestyles in world communities are influenced by environmental and geographic factors

• Know that the causes and effects of human migration vary in different world regions

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Meeting Basic Needs and Wants in World Communities

• Know that human needs and wants differ from place to place

• Know that people in world communities must depend on others to meet their needs and wants

• Understand that societies organize their economics to answer three fundamental questions: What goods and services should be produced and in what quantities? How shall goods and services be produced? For whom shall goods and services be produced?

• Understand that economic decisions of world communities are influenced by many factors

• Understand that production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services are economic decisions all societies must make

• Understand that people in world communities make choices due to unlimited needs and wants and limited resources

• Know how people in world communities use human, capital, and natural resources

• Know how people in world communities locate, develop, and make use of natural resources

• Know that resources are important to economic growth in world communities

• Use media resources can be used to locate economic information about world communities

• Select economic information from primary and secondary resources about world communities

• Use charts, tables, diagrams and simple graphs to show economic information about world communities

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Symbols of Citizenship in World Communities

• Know that people in world communities celebrate various holidays and festivals

• Know that people in world communities use monuments and memorials to represent symbols of their nations

      Civics and Citizenship

• Understand that governments in world communities plan, organize and make decisions

• Understand that people in world communities form governments to develop rules and laws to govern the community members

• Understand that people in world communities may have conflicts over rules, rights and responsibilities

• Understand that the processes of selecting leaders, solving problems and making decisions differ in world communities

       Governments around the World

• Understand that governments in world communities organize to provide functions people cannot provide a individuals

• Understand that governments in world communities have the authority to make, carry out and enforce laws and manage disputes among them

• Know that governments in world communities develop rules and laws

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