Standard 6: Understand how to apply geography to interpret the past and present and plan for the future.

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Number: SS.912.G.6
Title: Understand how to apply geography to interpret the past and present and plan for the future.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Geography

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Access Points

SS.912.G.6.AP.1
Use appropriate maps and other graphic representations to examine geographic problems and changes over time.
SS.912.G.6.AP.2
Identify, organize, and determine the importance of information about a specific place.
SS.912.G.6.AP.3
Identify the relationship between physical and cultural phenomena in specific places using geographic models.
SS.912.G.6.AP.4
Use narratives about places and events to create graphic representations, such as maps, tables, or graphs.
SS.912.G.6.AP.5a
Identify issues relating to human spatial organization and environmental stability.
SS.912.G.6.AP.5b
Identify solutions relating to human spatial organization and environmental stability.

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