Students explore how Indigenous nations adapted tools, clothing, and seasonal movement to their environments across cultural regions, highlighting stewardship practices and showing how these traditions continue and change today.

Students explore Indigenous nations of their region—mapping homelands, connecting environment to food and housing, and recognizing living cultures that show both continuity and change.

Students create a State Geography Map Book using multiple sources, clear maps, and evidence-based explanations to show regions, features, resources, and stewardship ideas.

Students investigate real examples of conservation, protection, and restoration in our state and create their own evidence-based stewardship proposal, learning how to analyze human–environment interaction and communicate informed actions clearly.

Students explore how landforms and climate shape natural resources and regional industries, identifying natural, human, and capital resources while weighing benefits, costs, and environmental trade-offs.

Students apply cardinal/intermediate directions and use map scales to estimate distance and plan simple routes, integrating titles, legends, compass roses, grids, and multiple sources to answer geographic questions with accuracy and clarity.

Students compare natural and human-made features—like mountains, rivers, dams, bridges, and highways—and explain their purposes, impacts, and stewardship needs through hands-on mapping and human–environment interaction activities.

Students investigate how weather and climate differ across regions and how people adapt, modify, and conserve resources in response to temperature, precipitation, and seasonal patterns.

Students explore major landforms and waterways in their state and region, examining how these features shape settlement, jobs, and travel while learning how people adapt to, modify, and care for their environment through hands-on mapping and stewardship activities.

Students learn to read and create detailed state maps using titles, legends, scales, grid coordinates, and directions, gathering information from multiple sources to locate cities, rivers, and borders accurately.

Students explore their state’s physical and cultural regions and compare urban, suburban, and rural communities using maps, questions, and local examples to understand how geography shapes ways of life.