SS.Geog3
Wisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade
Wisconsin students will examine the impacts of global interconnections and relationships.
Child standards (8)
- SS.Geog3.a.1Analyze how different access to resources can create stress in a society (e.g., Who sits closer to the bathroom? Who gets to the lunchroom first?)
- SS.Geog3.a.5Classify a provided set of resources as renewable or nonrenewable, and analyze the implications of both at the local, national, and global level.
- SS.Geog3.a.hEvaluate, in both current and historical context, how the prospect of gaining access to resources in contested zones creates competition among countries. Assess how and why consumption of resources (e.g., petroleum, coal, electricity, steel, water, food) differs between developed and developing countries now and in the past.
- SS.Geog3.a.mAnalyze the relationship between the distribution of resources and patterns of human settlement within states, countries, and regions of the world now and in the past.
- SS.Geog3.b.2Compare and contrast the different modes of transportation and communication used by families in work and daily lives.
- SS.Geog3.b.4Classify various ways that people and countries depend on one another. Summarize how transportation and communication have changed economic activities over time.
- SS.Geog3.b.hAnalyze the evolution of the global economy to its present state and the role it plays in the economic development of world regions. Analyze the role of supranational organizations (e.g., NAFTA, NATO, UN).
- SS.Geog3.b.mAnalyze spatial patterns of social and economic development in a variety of regions in the world. Identify how people, products, and ideas move between places (e.g., internet commerce, outsourcing).