CA-World Regional Geography
History–Social Science Content Standards - 1998
Standard ID Standard Text
No standards exist for grade nine in deference to current California practice in which grade nine is the year
students traditionally choose a history–social science elective.
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills
Chronological and Spatial Thinking
1
Students compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and
determining the lessons that were learned.
Edgenuity Lesson Name
Central Africa
Living in Russia
2
Students analyze how change happens at different rates at different times; understand that some aspects can
change while others remain the same; and understand that change is complicated and affects not only
technology and politics but also values and beliefs.
Cultural Geography of Oceania and Antarctica
3
Students use a variety of maps and documents to interpret human movement, including major patterns of
domestic and international migration, changing environmental preferences and settlement patterns, the
frictions that develop between population groups, and the diffusion of ideas, technological innovations, and
goods.
Population Patterns
Working with Maps and Data in Geography
4
Students relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
Cultural Geography of Africa
Cultural Geography of the Middle East
1
Historical Interpretation
Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social,
economic, and political trends and developments.
Cultural Geography of Africa
Cultural Geography of the Middle East
2
Students recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects, including the limitations on determining
cause and effect.
Cultural Geography of Africa
Cultural Geography of the Middle East
3
Students interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event unfolded rather than solely in
terms of present-day norms and values.
Cultural Geography of the Middle East
4
Students understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical events and recognize that events could
have taken other directions.
Cultural Geography of the Middle East
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CA-World Regional Geography
History–Social Science Content Standards - 1998
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5
Students analyze human modifications of landscapes and examine the resulting environmental policy issues.
Edgenuity Lesson Name
People and Their Environment - Europe
People and Their Environment - North America
People and Their Environment - Oceania and
Antarctica
People and Their Environment - Russia
People and Their Environment - Southeast Asia
People and Their Environments - East Asia
People and Their Environments - South Asia
6
10
10.1
10.10.1
Students conduct cost-benefit analyses and apply basic economic indicators to analyze the aggregate economic
behavior of the U.S. economy.
World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World
Students analyze instances of nation-building in the contemporary world in at least two of the following regions
or countries: the Middle East, Africa, Mexico and other parts of Latin America, and China.
Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic
significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.
Central Africa
China's People and Culture
Cultural Geography of Mexico
East Africa Today
North Africa Today
Region Today: The Eastern Mediterranean
Southern Africa Today
10.10.2
Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues,
natural features, resources, and population patterns.
Central Africa
China's People and Culture
Cultural Geography of Mexico
East Africa Today
North Africa Today
Region Today: The Eastern Mediterranean
Southern Africa Today
10.10.3
Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual
freedom and democracy.
Central Africa
China's People and Culture
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CA-World Regional Geography
History–Social Science Content Standards - 1998
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10.10.3
Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual
freedom and democracy.
(Cont'd)
10.11
Edgenuity Lesson Name
Cultural Geography of Mexico
East Africa Today
North Africa Today
Region Today: The Eastern Mediterranean
Southern Africa Today
Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and
communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers).
Central Africa
China's People and Culture
Cultural Geography of Mexico
East Africa Today
North Africa Today
Region Today: The Eastern Mediterranean
Southern Africa Today
11
11.8
11.8.6
United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.
Discuss the diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies, and the
origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions.
People and Their Environment - North America
Physical Geography of the US and Canada
11.8.7
Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the
computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural
technology.
AD.12
AD.12.9
Principles of American Democracy
Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with
emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.
Identify the forms of illegitimate power that twentieth-century African, Asian, and Latin American dictators used
to gain and hold office and the conditions and interests that supported them.
Living in the United States and Canada
AD.12.9.5
Central Africa
Southern Africa Today
The Southern Grassland Countries
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History–Social Science Content Standards - 1998
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AD.12.9.6
Identify the ideologies, causes, stages, and outcomes of major Mexican, Central American, and South American
revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Edgenuity Lesson Name
Cultural Geography of Mexico
The Southern Grassland Countries
AD.12.9.7
Describe the ideologies that give rise to Communism, methods of maintaining control, and the movements to
overthrow such governments in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, including the roles of individuals (e.g.,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel).
Living in Russia
AD.12.9.8
Identify the successes of relatively new democracies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the ideas, leaders,
and general societal conditions that have launched and sustained, or failed to sustain, them.
E.12
E.12.6
Principles of Economics
Students analyze issues of international trade and explain how the U.S. economy affects, and is affected by,
economic forces beyond the United States’s borders.
Identify the gains in consumption and production efficiency from trade, with emphasis on the main products
and changing geographic patterns of twentieth-century trade among countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Southern Africa Today
E.12.6.1
Living in the United States and Canada
E.12.6.3
Understand the changing role of international political borders and territorial sovereignty in a global economy.
Cultural Geography of Europe
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